decompose /
recompost
Movement Workshop with Katze Greeven
Part of the workshop series Precarious Pleasures
What does collective fermentation feel like on the dancefloor?
This workshop combines approaches from contact improvisation with improvised movement composition (instant composition). We will explore what happens when bodies come into contact with one another, influence each other, and work together to let something unknown emerge.
Fermentation describes a process in which many organisms decompose and recombine something. We will apply this idea to dance: How can we listen, resonate, and let ourselves be changed by other bodies? How can customary movement patterns be broken down? How does the space change in the process? And to what extent does composting function as a subversive movement practice?
The practice is based on exercises in movement research, contact, touch, consensus, and group improvisation.
Katze Greeven (all pronouns) is an experimental dancer, artist and choreographer. Katze breaks down established forms and playfully reassembles them through the body. The spaces Katze creates through dance invite curious exploration and the courage to embrace uncertainty. Katze is part of the queer-feminist collective b/w*itch ↗.
Precarious Pleasures
»Precarious Pleasures« is a laboratory for improvisation and queer-feminist practice. This year’s series of workshops turns to the world of minerals, bacteria, and microbes in four different workshop formats and invites participants to engage in collective fermenting. What ingredients are required for improvisation—aka voice or movement fermentation? What occurs on its own accord, and what do we add? What type of resistant power can arise when we decompose familiar orders together?
More in the Precarious Pleasures series:
Funded by the Senator für Kultur der Freien Hansestadt Bremen