Contemporary workshop “Taking the Temperature” Aniela Piasecka
- Date:
- Fri 13 Sep 2024
- Time:
- 14:00 - 16:00
- Please Note:
- No external footwear allowed in studio. Shoe covers can be provided at reception if requested.
- Venue:
- DanceHouse
- Admission:
- €20 Non-members / €15 DI Members
- Level:
- Professional/Advanced
- Teacher:
- Aniela Piasecka
This workshop endeavours to create space for exchange and sharing through movement, informed by a variety of somatic techniques and methodologies for supporting experiences of pain, offering a space where diverging needs, desires, and sensibilities might coalesce to create different ways to experience the body in space. The workshop will be structured around guided vocal invitations based on somatic movement, Feldenkrais and breath work exercises designed to enable participants to gain greater consciousness of their own internal worlds to experience both relaxing and enlivening effects. Participants would be encouraged to reflect on their movement impulses through acts of noticing and exploring sensations, images and feelings through improvisation. Aniela will share some of their research questions towards the end of the workshop and there will be a chance to discuss and exchange verbally together.
Artist Bio
Aniela Piasecka’s collaborative and solo performance works have been presented with Bergen Kunsthall; CAPC Museum of Modern Art, Bordeaux; The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; CCA, Glasgow; Dansehallerne Close Encounters, Copenhagen; Cubitt Gallery, London; Fruitmarket, Edinburgh. They are part of performance project STASIS (nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Award in 2023) and they frequently work in other collaborative constellations. They are a contributing performer in Myriam Lefkowitz’s Walk, Hands, Eyes (a city), jointly acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland and the collections of Edinburgh University. They are also a holder of this work’s practice and is responsible for its activation in the UK. They are currently working on a solo dance work titled ‘Remedies’ with support from Creative Scotland, Bergen Kunsthall, Dance Limerick, The Work Room, The Lowry, Lisa Ullman Traveling Scholarship Fund, Henry Moore Foundation, Dance Base, Dance Ireland.
They undertake work which often looks to respond to sites and environments as potential starting points or to feelings and sensations generated by specific sites. Works seek connection and Aniela views them as inherently relational and invested in the notion of ‘dérive’, an ambulatory state of experiencing disorientation which enables new meaning to be produced. They are also specifically interested in phenomenology, theories of subjective experience, to find sites of sensitivity in the bodies of performers and audiences alike.