Axis Syllabus Dance Workshop in Athens
May 23, 24, 25 2025
with Frey Faust Founder of the Axis Syllabus©
Creator of the Axis Syllabus© Book
and Founder of the Axis Syllabus Research Meshwork
“What is a biomechanical movement as opposed to an expressive gesture?”
If Art is the expressive rendering of the personal experience or political opinion into metaphor, then the movement of the body in the artistic context is gestural by default, since gestures are a corporeal language for communicating attitude and emotions.
Training the body in preparation for or in support of artistic undertaking implies a nuts-and-bolts technical foundation, the practical bedrock that should support and empower expressive potential. Yet the technical and the artistic seem to conflict.
In this workshop I will offer practical examples of both gestural and functional movement, and show how we might support expressivity in the creative process and in performance.
Friday 23: 13:00 - 15:00 / Break / 16:00 - 18:00
Saturday 24: 15:00 - 17:00 / Break / 18:00 - 20:00
Sunday 25: 12:00 - 14:00 / Break / 15:00 - 17:00
Cost: 120 €
Predeposit 50€
Leoforos Mesogeion 294, Chalandri, Athens
Very close to Metro Station Nomismatokopio (blue line) See map
Contact information & Registration:
Timos Zechas 00306973826166
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Born in 1960, Frey Faust began performing at the age of 8 with his family as a traveling troubadour. He is a second generation contact improviser and an alumnus of the 80 ́s New York dance scene. Some of his more important early influences came from: Shekhinah Mountainwater, Nita Little, Pavel Rouba, Rene Bazinet, and Janet Panetta. He has worked with and for a number of artists (order of appearance): Ohad Naharin, Donald Byrd, David Parsons, Gina Buntz, Howard Katz, Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Randy Warshaw, Bob Een, Stephen Petronio, Danny Ezralow... to name a few. He founded or co-founded three dance companies, and has created or co-created over 40 choreographic solo and group works. Following an independent study of anatomy, biomechanics, and physics, he has been able to build a pedagogical approach that has made him a sought after teacher, personal coach and technical counselor. After fifteen years of research, he consolidated his findings in a book, 'The Axis Syllabus - human movement lexicon', which he continues to edit with the help of the Axis Syllabus Research Meshwork. Founded in 2009, the ASRM is a rapidly expanding group of experts from many related fields in the human movement and education sciences. Recently, his work on the AS has been focused on the provision of an online "university" for the study of the human body: The ASRM Forum, as well as the construction of a symbol set with the potential to streamline movement documentation, creation and analysis, The Axis Syllabus Notation System. He also makes shoes, speaks 4 languages, and continues to create and perform dances.
The Axis Syllabus is a repository of useful information concerning the use, preparation, treatment, structure, function, limitation and potential of the human body in motion. The Axis Syllabus is a sincere support for a collective effort towards individual health sovereignty. It is constantly reviewed, edited, updated and monitored for health and welfare veracity and utility. It is not intended to instruct, but to inform, in the understanding that the only kind of consent is informed and in the recognition and respect for consent as the modern moral basis for all social interaction.
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