Core Class - Tuesday, April 29th, 10 am to 11:30 am

Tuesday, April 29th, 10 am to 11:30 am
Class Instructor: Katarzyna Pastuszak

BONES’ LANDSCAPES
The aim of the workshop is to create an open space for practical research and reflective analysis of the potential that dance/movement practices have in instigating corporeal dialogues between body and the material world (dialogues between bodies and materials, bodies and places, humans and non-humans, etc.) in different contexts. During the workshop, dance/movement practices will be used as tools for observing and mapping bodies and human-environment relations (with particular focus on what I call “bones’ landscapes”. The workshop draws from creative tools, methods and practices from the field of choreography, physical theatre and somatic practices (including experiential anatomy). The workshop is part of the ongoing research led by Katarzyna Pastuszak under the umbrella of Dance Ecologies project.

Katarzyna Pastuszak –
dancer/performer, choreographer and artistic director of Amareya Theatre & Guests, assistant professor in the Department of Performing Arts (Institute of English and American – University of Gdańsk), member of Between.Between (UG) Research Group, also associated with the Centre for Environmenatal and Minority Policy Studies (Sapporo, Japan). Author and translator of articles on dance and theatre, editor and translator of Studia Choreologica and author of Hijikata Tatsumi’s Ankoku butō - body theatre in crisis (Cracow: Universitas, 2014). She has published in Didaskalia, Konteksty, Kultura Współczesna, Teatr, Tekstualia, among others. She is the winner of an individual 4th degree Rector's Award of the University of Gdańsk and numerous artistic scholarships awarded by the City of Gdańsk, the Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. In 2024, she realised an extensive artistic and research scholarship project Dance Ecologies as part of the National Reconstruction Plan (KPO) programme for culture. Her performances have been presented in Japan, Greenland, Norway, Turkey, Israel, Germany, France and numerous festivals in Poland. In her artistic endeavours, she mainly moves in the field of choreography and physical theatre. She combines movement explorations with current trends in humanist thought (posthumanism, ecofeminism). She combines movement explorations with current currents of humanist thought (posthumanism, ecofeminism). Projects realised in this field are: Dance Ecologies (from 2024), Spore Fantasy (sf) (with Nat Chylinska, 2024), Braiding Time, Memory and Water (directed by Sue Schroeder, 2024), LoopCurrent (directed by Maya Ciarrocchi, 2024), Instabilités naturelles (created with Sonnets Trois Fois and Nat Chylinska – PL, 2023), Mapping Bodies, Landscapes, Relations (2023), Re:fungia – fungi score (2022). In 2024 she completed the EarthBody Institute’s Certified Ecotherapy Course (USA).


Phot. Nat Chylińska

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