Schweizerischer internationaler Weiterbildungskurs in Choreographie
Artistic Director: Nigel Charnock
Performer, dancer, choreographer and director Nigel Charnock has been defined as a body poet, a virtuoso in daring physical theatre and truly amazing. Nigel was born in Manchester. He trained in drama for three years and then in dance at the London School of Contemporary Dance. Nigel co-founded DV8 Physical Theatre in 1986, winning the London Performance Award for his performance in Dead Dreams Of Monochrome Men. He has created a series of solo shows: Resurrection, Original Sin, Hell Bent, The Second Coming, Frank and most recently One Dixon Road (2010). Nigel has been teaching, choreographing, writing and directing for over 25 years all over the world, particularly in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark, Brazil, Canada, Israel, South Africa and Finland where he was the artistic director of The Helsinki City Theatre Dance Company from 2002 to 2005. He has directed numerous theatre companies in productions of Shakespeare's Macbeth, the Love Sonnets, Ibsen, Pinter and many devised works.
Nigel has been recently working on a new solo piece which was premiered in Italy in August 2010. He is also in demand as an improvisor having performed for many years with German composer and musician Michael Riessler.
Nigel was the director of SiWiC in 2005 and is very happy to return in 2011.
Theme:
This year's theme will be the body and the voice - how does the silent body express emotion and narrative content versus form, and how does the voice connect to the body so that the two become one? Nigel wishes to investigate dance as an abstract form and as a way to express meaning and narrative. Does dance have to mean something to the viewer? Also Nigel would like to explore the voice as an instrument combined with the body - a vocal physicality, the physical voice. Using existing text, words created by the choreographers and pre-lingual sounds, we will scream, shout, whisper, rant, sing, grunt, laugh, cry and dance.
Participants:
Choreographers:
Nadine Schwarz
Ha Young Lee
Renaud Wiser
Moritz Ostruschnjak
Alexander Andriyashkin
Gareth Belling
| Dancers: | |
| Laia Duran Marta Zollet Soledad Steinhardt Akiyama Rie Vanessa Lopez Rebecca Weingartner Olga Maria Palliani Rosalia Ortega Mimi Jeong Sabrina Brunner (stagiaire) Carolina Silvestre (stagiaire) |
Constantin Georgescu Exequiel Barrera Filipe Baracho Romain Guion Mathis Kleinschnittger Alberto Franceschini Andrea Mirabile Werner Nigg Sebastian Rowinsky Eugene Rhodes |
Seminar: Psychology of Dance
Eileen Nemeth is a practicing analytical psychologist with a private practice in Zürich. Her work as a psychotherapist combines her training as a Jungian analyst, dance therapist and former dancer, choreographer and teacher. She will explore the idea of archetypal movement, or the archetypal patterns in movement. patterns that are universal and link us, through our bodily manifestaition, to the very essence of all human life. She will look at the creative process in choreography and focus on the personal and the universal expression.
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