Workshop by Stephanie Cumming
Part 1
A physical warm-up….
Moving the body in space with clarity and purpose and utilizing different physical tensions are the main focus of this class. By experiencing unfamiliar states and ways of moving we become reacquainted with our bodies and as a result enable ourselves to transform and break our own personal stereotypes. Imagination will help us to shift through various states, enriching our interpretation of movement and expanding the space around us. We will focus on various aspects of technique such as alignment and fluidity, as well as precision and on overall awareness of one’s own presence. Following the warm-up, which combines stretching and coming into movement on the floor, we will concentrate on phrases of choreography that bring together different levels of quality and tension, as well as a heightened sense of timing.
Part 2
A Process of Examining working methods of Liquid Loft…..
We will break from choreography in the classical sense and try to find different entry points into creation. Rather than being led by an already formed goal we will instead pick a starting point and see where it leads us. By using ourselves as material we will create movement characters which when put into various contexts shift our perception of what is appealing, normal, attractive, intelligent, emotional, ugly, vulnerable, strange, funny…. Examining the contrasts that make people who they are is a signifigant part of the work, as is openness and observation.
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Stephanie Cumming
Canadian dancer/choreographer/actress living in Vienna. Stephanie Cumming graduated from the University of Calgary in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance. She has been working with Chris Haring since 2003 and co-founded Liquid Loft in 2005 and has collaborated on and performed in every piece since the company’s inception and has also worked as Haring’s choreographic assistant. For the solo Legal Errorist she was named Outstanding Young Dancer in Ballett-Tanz Magazine. She has collaborated on various film projects with artists such as Mara Mattuschka, Erwin Wurm and Harald Hund. Her own work includes solos such as Ah.Poetry (Szene Salzburg, Impulstanz), the short solo P.S. , as well as her lecture performance Redneck to Cyborg: A Shared Transformation (both Tanzquartier Wien 2009). In 2012 she created the short solo aurora borealis for the Austrian Dance Platform in Impulstanz. She also collaborates with Toxic Dreams and in 2014 premiered the full length solo „i dance, therefore i talk“ in Tanzquartier Wien, which was written for her by Yosi Wanunu. Stephanie played the lead role in Gustav Deutsch’s award winning film Shirley:Visions of Reality which premiered in 2013 at the Berlinale and continues to be screened at various international film festivals. She also plays a lead role in Daniel Hoesl’s film WINWIN (2015)