The Choreography Camp took place in Kalpitiya from November 25 to December 1, 2018.
Mentored by Sara Mikolai (Germany), Deepak Shivaswamy (India), Venuri Perera (Sri Lanka), Sudesh Mantillake (Sri Lanka), the Choreography Lab has given 16 young dance artists from all over Sri Lanka the opportunity to participate in a 7 -day intensive workshop.
In the daily morning and afternoon workshops of this residency in Kalpitiya, the participants had time to work on themselves and exchange ideas with each other. The focus was on concept development, composition, research, improvisation and contemporary dance. The workshops were composed of practical units as well as reflection and discussion sessions. The main topics of this year's camp were the use of and the relationship to space as well as the conscious perception of sound. Many sessions took place without any music as such, so the participants used the sounds of the surroundings and the sounds they created by their movements as the only background sound.