MoveMeant Workshop: Movement and Experimentation with Samuel Norden
- Date:
- Tue 1 Oct 2024
- Time:
- 10:30 - 13:00
- Please Note:
- No external footwear allowed in studio. Shoe covers can be provided at reception if requested.
- Venue:
- DanceHouse
- Admission:
- €15 public | €10 DI Members
- Level:
- Open - some experience required
- Teacher:
- Samuel Norden
About MoveMeant
The MoveMeant Residency and workshops were developed by artist Oluwatobiloba “Tobi” Balogun in collaboration with cultural producer Karen Aguiar and are supported by a partnership with Dance Ireland. They aim to provide space and connection for dancers and dance artists of different backgrounds to evolve and develop new approaches for their creative practice and future work; reflecting on how we present what moves us as individuals, as a community; and exploring how topics are expressed in our work and how this space can be co-created or made more sustainable.
Find out more about MoveMeant here.
Movement and Experimentation with Samuel Norden
Samuel invites you to join this workshop in a spirit of experimental and artistic research and will accompany you in the discovery of "your own music", your rhythm, your flow. Together with you, he will work from the feeling of the body, starting with the essential bases which then allow you to be independent in your search for movement: awareness of the body and the energies that surround it, anchoring, isolation, movement, change of energy, musicality, taking up space.
Through this process he will listen and guide you towards confidence and letting go. It is not about performance or achieving anything, the end is in experimentation and play. You will be on the move throughout with all styles of music, impossible to lock your practice in a particular box afterwards.
This workshop is open level, you should have some experience as a mover and dancer from any style or background to take part.
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ABOUT Samuel Norden
Samuel Darhan Norden aka "AYWA" was born in Martinique and is a self-taught multidisciplinary/eclectic artist and explorer whose movement is at the root of all the different forms of expression he has touched in his life. He has been dancing and exploring the possibilities of his body for over 15 years. Starting with traditional Afro-Caribbean, urban and contemporary dances, he eventually developed individually into experimental dance and movement abstraction. He loves to twist, play with music, turn, slide, fall, jump and become strange and abstract forms using the suppleness and grace of his body. He has worked and danced with unique artists such as Heddy MaaLem, kristian Mensa "Mr.Kriss", Melina Boubetra "boubzy" ,Yann Massurich , Maky Gorocha ( Cie Kane) .
He has performed at events such as the World of Dance (Spain), taken part in and won Battles such as the Festival (Dis)connected Reicko (Paris), Au delà des préjugé (Switzerland), crossover dance Battle (Germany), taken part in mini documentaries and film shoots that have won awards at the Nikon film festival, exhibited his paintings and for the last 2 years has taught and performed in Switzerland and Paris with his company Le NouN. As a visual artist, he draws inspiration from the banal things left behind the sensitivity of the people he photographs or the shape of the characters he paints. He works a lot on the research of the connection, the dance contact and instinctive feelings and different emotions and especially the art of improvisation.
For over 1 year he has been exploring his African roots by integrating primitive ritual dance movements into his artistic approach. “Dance for me is a medium of research and personal development, of physical and mental healing, an inexhaustible source of creation and above all of experimentation. A way to be present, contemplative and creative at the same time”
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