EXPLORING THE INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE BODY
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
In this workshop participants will explore movement from within their bodies. Starting from watching and listening we will build up awareness of one’s limitations and desires. We will expand this awareness to the collective, transforming it into meetings. We will unblock a consciousness that allows for immediacy, towards oneself and towards the group. To accomplish this, we will switch our everyday focus from hands, feet, and head to the torso, hips, and nostrils. This unlocks a different kind of knowledge: the knowledge of the body instead of the knowledge of the head. An important part of the workshop is getting to know one’s mental and physical limitations, learning to acknowledge them, to give them a place and move through them, or in spite of them, without suppressing them. There’s a strong emphasis on finding individuality within a collective and on the discovery of the quiet, the joy and of the immediacy of movement. There’s no text involved; we will work with movement only. No technique is required, only comfortable clothes, patience, curiosity and a willingness to sweat, touch and discover.
Roel, please call! I need a choreographer for my new video! ​
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Beyoncé, singer and dancer
Roel, please call! I need a choreographer for my new video! ​
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Beyoncé, singer and dancer
Roel Faes
Roel Faes is a Brussels based artist working at the intersection of dance and theatre. After finishing a master’s degree in philosophy and a brief brush with the academic world of Theatre studies, he quickly turned to the practice of creative processes. As a self-taught artist, Roel’s work is all about fundamental exploration and discovery, unlimited by assumptions or known codes. He engages in a wide variety of projects in all kinds of different capacities as performer, director, coach, dramaturg, … Often this work situates itself on the verges of the amateur, the professional and the social-artistic field. Most notably he recently spent a lot of his time as a member of the Brussels collective Transfocollect and as a dancer with Ultima Vez, both working around the same themes. This work focusses on horizontality, co-authorship and authenticity as opposed to cold professionalism, technical skill or virtuosity. Thus, Roel’s own workshops often revolve around the search for individuality in a collective and the immediacy of movement.
