exploratorium berlin

Andrew takes a “skills” and “spirit’ approach to teaching improvisation.

We will engage in the skills of engagement necessary to find content from breath, movement, voice and the imagination and we will amplify these skills using the spirit of communication necessary to engage an audience. we will start by working in simple ways with the body and voice and gradually extend these modes to include imagination and communication as sources for our material and for making choices.

We will explore the possibilites of “making decisions” and “noticing what is changing” as ways for material to develop.
We will also develop a specific form of feedback to help to process the experience of improvising.

Participants should expect to enjoy themselves, as they become their own editor in performance whilst developing texture and clarity.

Workshop in English language!

Unfortunately, Andrew Morrish had to cancel his tour through Europe due to Corona Pandemic!

How do I sound?
When do I sound how?
And why should I even?
Do I want to sound or is hush and silence also part of my expression?
What does “authentic” mean?
How do I connect with / to myself?

We will sound / sing / babble / talk in the room … everything that one’s own voice likes and can give. And for your “like to give” and “can give” I have one or the other good tip.

• Discovering your own sonic possibilities by conveying vocal technical knowledge
• Joint body, breathing, and voice exercises
• Creative handling of improvisation instructions
• Experiencing a direct connection between “mood” and “voice”, influencing both through exercises / playful-creative experiments / music pieces and / or performances (duos, trios, quartets, solos, …)

Welcome are all who already work with their voice and feel addressed by this announcement!

Bring along: your own voice, possibly also your own poems / lyrics to spontaneously set to music.

The workshop will be given in German, English summaries can be provided if necessary.

The workshop has to be cancelled due to Corona Pandemic!

Improvisation für strings – violin / viola / cello / double bass
and any other string instruments which can be played with bow

Saturday 11 – 14 h, once ay month from 25. February 2020

In German language. For details see German version.

can take place as a small group from May 16

Welcome to our monthly meeting for makam-based improvisation!
Once a month on Sunday, we will meet at noon to play and improvise together in a given makam or two for two full hours. The improvisation will be lead by Tayfun Guttstadt on the Ney. Theoretical aspects will be worked on, too, but the focus is on playing together and feel the mood of the respective makam. Typical forms of oriental music will also be introduced, everything by playing and feeling.

All instruments including voice and all levels welcome.  

Dates until January 2021:
 29.3. | 19.4. | 17.5. | 14.6. | 16.8. | 13.9. | 18.10. | 15.11. | 13.12. | 17.1.2021

Can take place again from 17.5. (for the time being only as a small group)!

Since organizers are currently obliged to keep lists of their visitors, address and telephone number must be given with the registration. This data will be kept for four weeks in order to be able to trace chains of infection if necessary and to inform those affected. After four weeks this data will be deleted.

Experience yourself dancing! Reinvent yourself! Discover the immense power of your gestures and steps!

Janine Schneiders self-created method no thrills is a technique of multidimensional awareness using the direct effect of one’s physical action on spirit and soul. Just by taking a basic position you get in touch with the essential leaving complications of everyday life far behind.

Elévation

Art of Reduction
unpretentious yet beautiful
I look at the body in motion without rating it.

Playing this place
every single gesture turns into dance
Constant revision of the entire musculoskeletal system.

Breathtaking art of movement of art
exemplary expressiveness
the classical grand adage makes it clear: sensing creates radiation.

Never ending arms and legs
stretching, reaching into space
once literally meant
for figure and room were not one.

Janine Schneider, 2019

Can take place as a small group – despite Corona!