Pickle Factory Preludes 2020- making meaning of dance

Whether you are a dance practitioner, audience, scholar, critic or student, how to read and respond to dance and movement-based performance is a constant concern. How do you make meaning of a work of art, informed by a sense of history, personal or collective experience, or some other lens? This programme addresses precisely these questions through playful and provocative, inventive, intuitive and interrogative participatory processes – much like how artists create their work. Led by a range of facilitators and with inputs from guest speakers, the series will invite and inspire participants to perceive closely, think critically, and create meaning that reaches beyond personal opinions and enters the realm of ideas that art – by its nature – imagines and inhabits.

Module 3

Politics, Practice, Performance, Participation: the dance work of Helene Weinzierl

“The audience are the people who surround me, who I deal with in life, on stage, who make up our society and if I/we can stimulate the audience to think, or deal, discuss about the theme/topics of one of our creations, that makes me happy. It is important that each individual tries to determine his or her life as best as possible and this requires responsible, critical, alert people in our world.”
- Helene Weinzierl

In these two participatory sessions, company member Luan de Lima will take us through the motivations for Helene Weinzierl’s ground-breaking choreographic work addressing vital questions:

• the importance of approaching socio-political topics, and how this affects the practice
• the power and participation of the spectator
• the use of humour and irony

The programme is presented in collaboration with the Pickle Factory Dance Foundation 

By registration only

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