Katie Duck

Katie has been holding a workshop in the first week of July in Amsterdam since 1995. Each time she has focused on her contemporary interest for performance, composition, music/dance collaboration and body work. Katie’s workshops do not aim to provide a technique or style for how one conducts them-self in a live performance. Her work is relevant for any performance situation without discrimination of levels or performance platforms. She asks that anyone who chooses to study with her have an intense interest in the work and is willing to experiment and take risks with the material she offers. Tis July 2010 she will collaborate with Alfredo Genovesi (electric guitar + electronics) as a musician and as part of the daily feedback and discussions.

Her warm-up and exercises emphasis how the eyes and the ears work in co ordination with movement, sound and exposure to gathered crowds altering our perception of time, space and emotions. Improvisation sessions revolve around the terms pause, flow, exit and presence as choices with discussions articulating play, memory, intuition and feelings.

Her aim is to provide a situation where artists can practice together and grow in confidence toward public performances with an objective to share her views about improvisation not being the antitheses of choreography or composition but rather the way the choreography and composition can be executed, that the mental connection to this practice can be accessed weather they are doing set or open framed performance pieces, that definitions of what improvisation within art practices mean today is reflective of advances in brain-studies and technology shifting the way we can contribute as artists in the theatrical setting to gathered live crowds and that an artist’s commitment to share feelings with a public in a live setting is in and of it’s self meaningful.

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