Dear artists, movers, researchers, activists and ecologists,
Embodiment researchers Tuva Hildebrand and Philippe Blanchard invite you to a two-day workshop where Philippe’s research practice in consciousness and sensuous perception of our environment inspired by the philosophy of phenomenology meets Tuva’s research practice in embodied ecology and somatic movement as a tool for building empathy and interconnectedness towards the more-than-human.
This transformative workshop offers a chance to step beyond and fully engage in the experience of profound connection. Over two days, we'll explore ways to strengthen our relationship with the environmental world. Through improvisation, exploration, sensory awareness, and movement, we will uncover pathways that deepen our understanding of the relationship between the synthetic and the natural world and the interconnectedness that weaves all living organisms. The practice and tools you'll acquire will help cultivate a stronger sense of belonging. The workshop allows participants to venture into practice to question their body senses and to unlearn and relearn by seeing and hearing about the world in which they are participating.
We will work both inside and outside, mostly in the forests and fields around Östra Nyrup outside Höör. We will move, walk, sense, listen, notice, reflect, talk, write, draw, share, cook and eat together.
All art practitioners, scientists, activists, researchers or practitioners whose area of expertise is related to human science or subjects related to environmental implications are more than welcome to attend this workshop (no dance experience is required).
About Philippe Blanchard:
For the past 20 years, Philippe has established himself as an international artist in contemporary dance. Starting in Stockholm, he created a flexible organization to support diverse artistic ventures, evolving his dance practice into a multidisciplinary approach. He later relocated to Brussels to expand his work and start new collaborations in film and visual arts. While maintaining a strong interest in performative art, Philippe concentrated on the complex enquiries around art and capitalism. Between 2018 and 2022, he developed a curiosity for sociology, art situationism, and political activism, all while teaching choreographic composition at several art universities in Copenhagen, Paris, and Stockholm. To sustain himself economically and maintain artistic freedom, he operated during that period independently of public funding. In 2022, Philippe began his art and ecology studies at Darlington Art School, graduating last year. His practice now focuses on temporality and ephemerality. Recently, he was commissioned to lead a new artwork in collaboration with Skånes Dansteater, Konsthall Malmö, and Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, set to premiere in July 2026.
About Tuva Hildebrand:
In this workshop Tuva will share methods which she has developed through her artistic cross-disciplinary projects Sensuous Repair: an Eco-somatic Exploration (2021-2025) and Dear Earthling (2020-2022). Both were driven by her research in how we are our environment, shifts in perception through language, hightened sensory awareness, imagery and movement, and the interconnectedness between the human and more-than-human. Since 2009 Tuva has dedicatedly studied different somatic movement forms such as Skinner Releasing Technique, Alexander Technique, BodyMind Centering and Contact Improvisation, and she has been teaching regularly since 2017. In 2017 Tuva also became an apprentice of somatic dance pioneer Eva Karczag, archiving and learning Eva’s body of life work. Tuva makes performances for theater venues and alternative spaces, having worked and studied in the UK (2009-2011), New York (2011-2018) and Sweden (2018+). Her pedagogical and artistic work is influenced by her political and philosophical interests in themes such as ecoqueerfeminism, violence, care, intimacy, sexuality, power, language, phenomenology, ontology & anarchism. The deep embodied knowledge of the older generation of women in the post-Judson dance scene in New York has also been highly influential of her practice. Visit
http://tuvahildebrand.com for more information.
Workshop hours, arrival and departure:
Saturday: 10-18.00 (lunch 13-15.00)
Sunday: 10-17.00 (lunch 12.30-14.00)
You are welcome to arrive on Friday evening or Saturday morning before 10.00 and depart after the workshop has ended on Sunday. Those of you who stay over on Saturday may also receive a late evening session after dinner.
Accommodation:
We offer you to sleep in a tent on a field on the farm or in the barn which is also the dance studio.
Facilities:
The workshop will take place in Östra Nyrups Danslada, at the address Östra Nyrup 301, 24391, Höör. We will be in a small dance studio which is inside a rustic and simple barn, and also outside in the forest and fields.
Participants:
We will have a maximum of 10 participants in the workshop.
Food:
We will provide recipes and ingredients for organic, vegan, glutenfree and sugarfree food that will cover lunch and dinner on Saturday and breakfast, lunch and easy light dinner on Sunday before you depart. We will cook the food together.
Cost:
Sliding scale 1600-2500 kr (incl. groceries for food and sleeping arrangement)
Registration:
Please fill in this form to register:
https://forms.gle/t18mGJXRmKL4jdYZ6
DEADLINE JUNE 17TH!
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