A practice-based workshop
AYAKO KATO
CHICAGO
IN-PERSON
Sept 11 - Sept 15, 2023
Five three hour sessions from 9:00am - 12:00noon CST
Photo credit William Frederking
The environment, is the extension of the body. The body is the extension of the environment.
Workshop description:
Through this workshop, participants will explore how the body-mind can embody the intangible and visualize the invisible. Ayako will use somatic exercises informed by Chinese meridians, Myofascial meridians, Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation, and Ideokinesis. Through both improvisational and compositional exercises, participants will nurture a keen awareness of the expansiveness as well as the depth of being through the physical and mental tensegrity (tension x integrity) to establish new relationships within and around us. In transformative manners, participants will have step by step opportunities to build the skills to make ordinary (moments) into extraordinary (moments) as a performer and human.
A brief outline of the five practice-based workshops
Day 1: Sept 11 @9am - 12noon
Introduction to establish the worldview: Somatic warm up, How to empty ourselves and connect with the environment through the body-mind as a conduit, Discussion/Feedback
Day 2: Sept 12 @9am - 12noon
Somatic warm up extending the tensegrity (tension x integrity), What you become 1: Dwindle Body, How to view the mind-body & cycle it internally & externally, Discussion/Feedback
Day 3: Sept 13 @9am - 12noon
Somatic warm up: the grounded & centered body with more tensegrity amongst environment, What you become 2: flow and exchange, Outdoor exercise 1: Your body in environment, What you are, how you exchange, and how to be, Discussion/Feedback
Day 4: Sept 14 @9am - 12noon
Somatic warm up: extend inner outer multi-point of view, What you become 3: What is stillness & repetition & what they do, Outdoor exercise 2: How to keep going/arc/conclude & magic of meaning, Discussion/Feedback
Day 5: Sept 15 @9am - 12noon
Somatic warm up review, Site-specific performance review (Day) 1-4: between composition (planning) and improvisation (chance) to create absolute, Outdoor trial performance, Indoor Reflective dialogue on site-specific performance: challenges and solutions