Just like Il Giardino dipinto (Painted Garden), Farfalle (Butterflies) is a one of a kind, interactive, dance and multimedia show by Italy’s Compagnia TPO. When the company visited Poznań for the first time, children got to know the story of a beautiful garden. This time they will witness the transformation of a larva into a butterfly. Butterflies’ flapping wings are like brushes painting an image in the air, and make children marvel at the extraordinary dance of the colourful creatures. Kids will again be invited to explore an extraordinary space, to enter into a multimedia world that is full of receptors reacting to their movements.
The workshop session is a chance to explore the multimedia world even more. The children cooperate with the artists, getting to know the secrets of a multimedia, magic carpet that is the central point of all the TPO’s shows. It is a movement workshop that uses an installation which interacts with children.
flying & falling will be a non language based dance performance in poetic pictures with two dancers, one actress and air-objects about the experience of falling, the moment of letting go and the wish to fly for everybody aged 2 and up.
The choreographer Florian Bilbao and his team will explore mankind’s old dream to fly known even by every little child. Through the everyday experience of falling the little child learns about its boundaries, feels its body, its skin and the adrenalin caused by the excitement and surprise of action. Bilbao will base his choreography on a body research about different ways of flying and falling and everything between.
Flying and falling seem to be opposite powers but in every act of falling there is a
moment of flying as well!
flying & falling will be the next performance developed by Theater o.N. for the very young after its last successful shows „small story | eine kleine geschichte” (Andy Manley, Ania Michaelis), „laundry on the line | Weiße Wäsche” (Taki Papaconstantinou, Minouche Petrusch) „pling, little thing* | kling kleines ding” (Bernd Sikora, Andreas Pichler) and „cocoon | kokon” (Ania Michaelis, Minouche Petrusch).
Eco Classes for parents and children combine environmental awareness with dance. Physics has long ago proven that we are deeply connected with everything that exists. We will be using simple techniques to find life within us. One of the methods we will use will be the readily-available and supremely ecological tool that is our breath. This time, we will use it consciously to connect with the life within us.
One of the inspirations for the simple and playful choreographies during the Eco Classes includes various species of animals: their movements and behaviours. Another inspiration will be the world of nature and its multitude of forms, including weather phenomena. The classes will surprise and develop the sensitivity of the older and younger participants alike. We will play and grow as we become more and more aware of the fact that our bodies are the most ecological form of enjoying and remaining in touch with life. Without this we are never really present no matter where we are.
The point of departure for the Family Dance workshop will be playing which will include all family members. Simple games and physical activities will provide the basis for the developing of a dance together. The choreographer will not create any arrangements but will let the families perform their own spontaneous and unrestricted gestures. Children will seek to find a common language of movement with both mum and dad, and by doing so, will experience their closeness. This active type of “being together” will provide an opportunity to use the movement potential of all family members.
Dance and movement can be an original way to spend your free time, and to discover and establish new and special relationships. During the classes, we will focus on the building of trust and sense of safety, which are extremely important to family ties. Through movement and learning to partner within in it, through freedom of motion, through fun and guiding one another, the workshop participants will build some unique ties. A variety of dance and movement tasks will provide an extraordinary opportunity to stimulate creativity and ingenuity. We will prove that dance can not only be fun, but also a way to express oneself, to tell stories and to communicate.
The goal of this workshop is to discover new ways for parents and children to communicate. How many times in life do we miss the right words? How many times do we find ourselves saying a few words too many? This activity is designed to help families find different ways to communicate. How do we express our emotions without verbal communication? Which movement or gesture is good, nice, friendly, and which expresses fear, anxiety, anger?
The classes are aimed at parents with children aged 6 to 8 years. At this age children cannot imagine life without words – together we will remind them that communicating is something more. Parents will also have an opportunity to find a piece of their forgotten childhood. See how much easier it will be for you to build a bond with your kids using body language, thus gaining a whole new means of communication. See how joint action, movement and activity can bring you closer to each other.
Just like Il Giardino dipinto (Painted Garden), Farfalle (Butterflies) is a one of a kind, interactive, dance and multimedia show by Italy’s Compagnia TPO. When the company visited Poznań for the first time, children got to know the story of a beautiful garden. This time they will witness the transformation of a larva into a butterfly. Butterflies’ flapping wings are like brushes painting an image in the air, and make children marvel at the extraordinary dance of the colourful creatures. Kids will again be invited to explore an extraordinary space, to enter into a multimedia world that is full of receptors reacting to their movements.
The workshop session is a chance to explore the multimedia world even more. The children cooperate with the artists, getting to know the secrets of a multimedia, magic carpet that is the central point of all the TPO’s shows. It is a movement workshop that uses an installation which interacts with children.
Can you taste space? Can you smell movement? Can you see things with your eyes closed? Can your skin listen? In this movement workshop for families, based on improvisation and exploration of the senses, we will use some unique methods to learn about the wealth of tools offered to us by contemporary dance. Discovered together with close family members, it may become a fascinating adventure that will surprise children and adults alike.
To me, dance and movement are an organic part of everyday life. I can see excellent examples of partnering at airports when people greet one another or say goodbye. I can see choreographies in trams when people change seats. I am fascinated by athletes and the way their bodies operate. I enjoy observing children who are excellent performers and convey a unique stage presence, even during repetitions of the same exercises. Improvisation teaches me that there are many movement-based solutions, and that critical situations in dance have a great potential for building compositions. Just like in life, there are many options, and if you really try them out, instead of only thinking about them, they will surprise you. Every crisis in which we remain mindful and honest may bring new solutions. There are many more reasons why dance is my passion, but I want my students and audience, with whom I share my experience, to find their own goals. (Monika Kiwak).
The workshop is based on the F.G.D (Fight Gravity Dance) movement system which merges the experience of movement with the principles of operating the body borrowed from contemporary dance techniques and widely perceived martial arts. The instructor, who created this concept, will guide children and parents through the world of dance, filled with grace and lightness, and through the world of martial arts, filled with combat, strength a power. During the workshop, these two apparently dissimilar worlds will meet within the participants’ moving bodies. The proposed games will strengthen family ties, and will provide a basis to build new contacts beyond the group. The focus, however, will remain on the parent-child relationship, based on trust and the need to be together, accompanied by spontaneous movement.
What can we do together to discover the world of movement? Can we enhance movement by working with rhythm and props? Can we build an open attitude to movement to support the unrestricted growth of a child’s personality? Can we free ourselves from our own tensions and the barriers within our body through physical contact with people we are close to? How do we discover movement that comes from within and is close to our own nature?
During the workshop, we will dance using natural and spontaneous movement that will work with the force of gravity. We will allow ourselves to discover the yet unknown potential of our bodies. Using exercises that verge on drama and miming, we will activate our imaginativeness, and create our own movement standards. We will be working solo, in pairs and in larger groups, based on impulses, gestures, distinctiveness and motor expression.
I aim to identify simple and universal principles that define movement. Working with the contemporary dance technique, and also with my own intuitively determined movement material and improvisation focused around contact with the ground, I seek an interesting language of artistic expression that builds a straightforward communication with the audience. In my teaching work, I follow a route in which the body affects the thought and the thought affects the body. This coexistence is the prerequisite for the creation of movement that is fully conscious whilst providing for a free flow of energy.
The classes are intended for adults who can be accompanied in dancing by children aged from 0 to 18 months. During the classes, “dance” is seen not as the fulfilment of some externally implied standard, but as a creative process that provides for individual expression. It encourages you to follow your own natural movement and rhythm, to free your breath and improve your blood circulation, and to look for your own movement standards, to discover new ones and to find pleasure in movement.