Improvisation-based workshop: Theatre works – the space issue

Julyen Hamilton

Julyen Hamilton's teaching investigates the creative act and the technique needed to accompany and facilitate it. His vision of technique is one which observes how things are made, how they function and how knowledge, experience and intuition can be used to create the work we each need to make. It naturally enters the worlds of physiology, philosophy, culture, imagination and the future.

This 2-day workshop (4 hours per day) considers and practices the essential issue of the SPACE in which choreography and dance can be made and performed. It penetrates the themes of radial and Cartesian space and how they affect the moving body and the theatrical space where audience and performer meet. The basic work is the handling of the body and the 'speaking' from it in space, motion and time. Its co-ordination and its relationship to the material it creates - and then to the sharing of it in performance.

This course is part of the Hamilton‘s extended pedagogy - THEATRE WORKS - the main subjects of which are Time, Space, Voice, Music and Objects; they stem from his experience as a dancer who creates and organises material instantly before the public.

  • Bühne 2
    Tanzhaus Zürich
    Wasserwerkstrasse 129
    8037 Zürich
  • Wheelchair accessible

  • Wheelchair accessible

  • Participants are strongly encouraged to attend the two-day workshop
    Open to: Dancers, choreographers, performers, movers of all kinds
    Duration: Four hours (lunch break 12-13 h)

Julyen Hamilton

Julyen Hamilton is a dancer, choreographer, poet, teacher and musician. He has been making and performing dances for over 45 years throughout the world. Born and brought up in England he trained in London in the 1970’s, a time of radical experimentation, he has been an exponent of innovative performance since that time. His work is mostly improvised : he composes dance works instantly as well as the texts which often accompany them. His work with text is unique. It fuses naturally his long-term writing practice with his refined skills in dancing. Since the 80’s he has performed in close collaboration with many of the highest quality musicians from all over Europe. It is with some of these musicians that he gives readings of his poetry. He is at present performing the solos INTERVIEW, HELD DEAR and a KOAN for our Times performing with bass player Barre Phillips and Nuria Andorra amongst many others. With his company ALLEN’S LINE, he is performing their latest piece GOAT OCEAN in Rome, Paris, Bruxelles and France (2023). As a pianist he plays regularly with Hamilton Carroll in Berlin and Brussels. Their first cd POINTER was released in 2016. His new poetry album Jack Gets Out of Prison with bassist Wilbert de Joode was released in 2018 and The Road to Amarillo piano/text/bass with Giorgos Kokkinaris released in 2022.

julyenhamilton.com
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