Movement Lab with Kristian Larsen - Everything and Nothing

Movement Lab is a space for creative enquiry through movement.
Led by different artists throughout the year, each series explores improvisation, choreographic practice, performance, and embodied research in a supportive, open environment.
Open to all movers or artists interested in embodied practices.
5 WEEK MOVEMENT-LAB with Kristian Larsen
Everything and Nothing
Thursdays 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 October
6-8pm
Studio 1, Wellesley Studios
Register here: https://forms.gle/s5GW7HsGXpVGfVRx8 or email [email protected]
Everything and Nothing
In this series Larsen's exploration of improvisation dance for performance takes on organising nonsense into coherence, and absurdity into rigour.
Larsen's 30 year practice of improvised performance is currently playing with 4 arguments:
1. Dance is a behaviour
2. Sound should be creatively misused.
3. Art is absurd
4. The audience is the problem
Larsen questions how we can play with relationships and entrenched values informing practices of improvisation. Such as tonality and rhythm in sound, and the spectacles of contemporary dance virtuosity. With what narratives could unfamiliar sounds and bodily movements be made into compelling gestalts?
If that sounds challenging it’s because it is, but it’s also a lot of fun to play with.
Kristian Larsen is an obsolescing movement and sound improviser. Larsen's crumbly approach to improvisation and sonics is distracted by relationships between the body and technology. His entangling of contemporary dance spare parts with creative misuses of audio technologies is guided by humour and a wealth of performance experience.
This block is valid for $10 THURSDAYS (LIMITED TIME OFFER)
Payment options
Drop-in - $10
10 class card ($150/$130 student rate - class cards can be used for Monday, Thursday and Saturday classes and do not have to be used consecutively)
Donation - $20
Signing up for the whole 5 week block is recommended to create continuity but drop-ins are also welcome.