Hello dear movement and dancing Cluj community!
I’ve had the chance to invite Steve Batts to lead a 4-hour workshop in Cluj-Napoca. I’m happy to plan this workshop for our Cluj community while Steve is on his way to the laboratory: "Skin, flesh, bones, ideas", organised by PETEC. I participated in a week workshop facilitated by Steve in 2014 and brought this experience in my heart and dancing practice since then. Poetic Movement gives a fresh look to the poem of dance, solo and contact.
- Mariia Iva
When: 3th April, 11:00-13:00, 14:00-16:00
Location: Ikwe studio, Strada Mihai Veliciu 9, Cluj-Napoca
Price: 220 ron in a case of pre-payment in July, 250 ron price in August
Registration and pre-payment is required to support the event happen, for this purpose please type to me:
FB: @Mariia Ivanova
WhatsApp: +351936448667
For more than forty years, Steve Batts has devoted himself to exploring the profound human poetry of movement. Leading Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company, he has brought together artists and communities from around the world, guided by the idea that dance is not just about bodies—but about people, stories, and shared presence. His creative path is shaped by improvisation, the Alexander Technique, and a passion for authentic expression.
“The idea of Poetic Movement acts as a way to re-focus dance away from attention to the body and its sculptural and/or private experiential aspects towards an interest in people, movement, grammar, syntax and the processes by which we can create and understand meaning. It moves the attention away from the strong dichotomy of dancers as objects or subjects towards seeing dance as a medium of deep communication. This is a core idea, reference point and theme in Echo Echo’s practice. It can help us to understand the way that the assumptions we make about what dance is and can be, and our habitual ways of thinking and talking about it are often very limiting both at the level of individuals engagement as audiences and participants but also for the development of the art form itself.” - Steve
Photo by Alina Ușurelu @ Contact Bucharest Festival 2017 - ''Teachers performance''
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