The Cadavre Exquis (Exquisite Corpse) was a favourite surrealist game from the mid-1920s onwards. It usually involved three or four participants who added to a drawing, collage or sentence, without seeing what the others had already done.

Taking the game as a departure for a group practice the worshop focuses on the desire to create a choreographically approach which involves the group and individual potential. We are all influenced by our own practices and life experiences, which lead us to different contexts and peoples. The question is how to potentialize our knowledge and create a set of actions, which involve us and the others. In the context of a workshop I invite the participants to reflect in practice how we can share those processes and create new events, forms and shapes.

I will propose a modular structure, which will be reinvented day by day. To apply the basic idea of the Cadavre exquis game is apropriate in the sense of emphasizing the individual qualities and dynamics of the group.The interest is to establish a platform of associations, which provokes curiosity and an adventures way to invent choreography. The central desire is to interpret and questioning existing practices that we know and transform them into new ones. This should include movement qualities, body tissues, writing methods and vocal expressions as well as actions and sensation-tasks for spatial, temporal and relational propositions.

As an introduction for the day we will start with 2 hours of work around sensual issues. Therefor I will provide some experience with the Feldenkrais method as a starting point to present a specific idea of physical awareness. The aim is to trigger altered modalities of sensations. In a next step it’s about combining those experiences and from individual narratives to tend towards an abstract and collective choreography.

The surrealistic approach of the Cadavres Exquis transferred into the domain of choreography establishes an experimental world where fictional bodies meander around and their inner world is extended to a new perception of the realm of reality. We will go through different fictional narrations and physical sensations to create a body of work consisting several individuals in a bigger organism.