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Shifting Balance
with Effi Bodensohn (antagon theaterAKTion)
Mondays, 8-15-22-29th April 2023, 19:00-20:30
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In this Open Training you can develop your core strength. We will play with each others balance and expand our scope.
Mixing yoga and movement exercises with breathing helps to find flow and create a dynamic space and approach yoga with a different eye. Through playful games based on theater principles we gain trust and awareness with each other.
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All levels welcome / donation based / wear comfortable clothes / Language: english
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Gaga Dance Workshop
with Kasia Kizior
06.04 & 07.04.2024 (exact times below)
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About the Workshop:
Gaga provides a framework for discovering and strengthening the body and adding flexibility, stamina, agility, and skills including coordination and efficiency while stimulating the senses and the imagination.
The classes offer a workout that investigates form, speed, and effort while traversing additional spectrums such as those between soft and thick textures, delicacy and explosive power, and understatement and being over the top. Participants awaken numb areas, increase their awareness of habits, and improve their efficiency of movement inside multilayered tasks, and they are encouraged to connect to pleasure inside moments of effort.
About Gaga/people:
Gaga/people classes are open to people ages 16+, regardless of their background in dance or movement. No previous dance experience is needed.
https://www.gagapeople.com/en/teachers/kasia-kizior/
Dates and Times:
06.04.2024 Saturday
15.00-16.00 Gaga/people
16.15-18.15 Research/ improvisational tools and jam
07.04.2024 Sunday
10.00-11.00 Gaga/people
11.15-13.15 Research/ improvisational tools, jam and closing talk
Registration & Payment:
Option 1:
Gaga/people, 30€
Saturday 06.04.2024 15.00-16.00 & Sunday 07.04.2024 10.00-11.00
Option 2:
You want more? 90€
Saturday 06.04.2024 15.00-18.15 & Sunday 07.04.2024 10.00-13.15
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Please transfer the payment to:
protagon e. V.
DE19500502010200045130
HELADEF1822
Frankfurter Sparkasse
Reason for payment: Gaga Dance Workshop
Read our general conditions of participation, fill out our registration form (on the website) and send it to workshop@protagon.net.
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More Information and registration form on our website: https://protagon.net/transformator/
Be prepared:
For safety reasons, entry after the stated starting time is no longer permitted. Participants should arrive at least 15 minutes early in order to start the workshop on time. Please wear comfortable clothes and be prepared to dance barefoot or in socks. It is advisable to bring a bottle of water and a towel for use after class.
The workshop will be hold in English.
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Credits/ Gaga photos: Ascaf
Credits/ Portrait: Matteo Marfoglia
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Dive deep into Improv: Alphonse and the magic box
with Solal Mazet (antagon theaterAKTion)
Mondays, 11.3, 18.3, 25.3 & 1.4. 2024, 19:00 ​(a class takes around 1,5 - 2 hours)
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This year we will build up on a new set of modules. I was inspired by the theme of this year’s Winterwerft: Losing Ground (Bodenlos). It happens to all of us, sometimes losing a sense of direction, floating between the known and the unknown, the old and the new. Let’s dive deeper into what improv is really about: the love and art of uncertainty. There will still be games and fun exercises like always, but the main goal this year is to really face the stage through internal research around the body and voice, and expressing it through solos. There will also be free-writing sessions. The new format is more accessible to people who don’t go to all the trainings, so they can still progress on their stage presence no matter their skills in improv.
This open training is suitable:
For the ones who always do everything at the last moment since so long that they made it into an art
For the introverts who are so used to be the observer that they lost their own voice
For the childish souls who look for outlets to be free and wild
For the adults who are going crazy inside and want to get out of adulting for just a moment
Pre-requirements:
Before coming to the training, please bring a small text that you loved as a child, for example a lullaby, as well as a bullet point list for each of the 4 modules and their themes. What do these themes feel like to you? What story are they telling? Keep the lists short, maximum 10 words.
List of modules
1. Losing Ground: body in crisis, looking for the axis points
2. Finding Ground: storytelling body, discover your own movement and voice styles
3. Keeping Ground: work on what keeps it all together: the face and stage presence
4. Solid Ground: unapologetic and wild: a touch of crazy child
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All levels welcome / donation based / wear comfortable clothes / Language: english
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Find your Latin Body
with Michael Schmidt (antagon theaterAKTion)
Mondays, 20 November 2023, 19:00 ​(a class takes around 1,5 - 2 hours)
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From theatrical theory we will seek to explore the different qualities of body movement individually and collectively and then advance in the composition in space and its different ways of approaching it to understand how to begin to create choreography with the body. All of this is framed in Latin rhythms and how they react in the body, eliminating the stereotypes of Latin American dances.
Michael is an actor trained in Chile and now a member of antagon theaterAKTion which seeks to explore in Europe how to change the vision of how to work with the body and rhythms in people, all in a playful, conscious and confident way. Everyone is invited to participate in this training, you just need to want to learn and laugh in the process.
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All levels welcome / donation based / wear comfortable clothes / Language: english
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Yoga and Theater
with Effi Bodensohn (antagon theaterAKTion)
Mondays, 6-13 November 2023, 19:00-20:30
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In this Open Training you can develop your core strength to gain mobility and flexibility. Mixing yoga and movement exercises with breathing helps to find flow and create a dynamic space and approach yoga with a different eye. Through playful games based on theater principles we gain trust and awareness for each other. The training is always accompanied by music, either on playlist or live, for a cozy and warm atmosphere.
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All levels welcome / donation based / wear comfortable clothes / Language: english
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The Fluid Body: fusion dance-theater
with Anna D’Errico (antagon theaterAKTion)
Thursdays, 2-9-16-23 November 2023, 19:00-20:30
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When a moving body is dancing and when is acting? During these sessions we will explore the possibilities of dance and choreographic movement for acting in connection with traditional dance from middle est and the so-called belly dance. Using dance elements from different cultural heritages and traditions (with a focus on North Africa and Mid.East) and principles of physical theater and dance-theater, we will develop short choreographic and personalized movement sequences. The class will include as well a short focus on cultural heritage of world dance in the context of decolonization and the contemporary artistic debate to rethink the fluidity and femininity of the body movement.
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The work starts with a warm-up using combined techniques from yoga and dance, and continues with body work based on self-perception principles to explore reaction to specific movements, fluidity, separation and disconnection of body-parts, floor work, and it progresses with exercise of fusion dance, improvisation and belly dance. We will deconstruct traditional dance sequence putting them in dialogue with dance-theater
and movement practicing on sequence composition and stage presence.
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All levels welcome / donation based / Language: english
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Please bring comfortable clothes for body work and a scarf
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Gaga Dance Workshop
with Kasia Kizior
11.11 & 12.11.2023 (exact times below)
Protagon Kulturgelände
About the Workshop:
Gaga provides a framework for discovering and strengthening the body and adding flexibility, stamina, agility, and skills including coordination and efficiency while stimulating the senses and the imagination.
The classes offer a workout that investigates form, speed, and effort while traversing additional spectrums such as those between soft and thick textures, delicacy and explosive power, and understatement and being over the top. Participants awaken numb areas, increase their awareness of habits, and improve their efficiency of movement inside multilayered tasks, and they are encouraged to connect to pleasure inside moments of effort.
About Gaga/people:
Gaga/people classes are open to people ages 16+, regardless of their background in dance or movement. No previous dance experience is needed.
https://www.gagapeople.com/en/teachers/kasia-kizior/
Dates and Times:
11.11.2023 Saturday
15.00-16.00 Gaga/people
16.15-18.15 Research/ improvisational tools and jam
12.11.2023 Sunday
10.00-11.00 Gaga/people
11.15-13.15 Research/ improvisational tools, jam and closing talk
Registration & Payment:
Option 1:
Gaga/people, 30€
Saturday 12.11.2023 15.00-16.00 & Sunday 12.11.2023 10.00-11.00
Option 2:
You want more? 90€
Saturday 15.00-18.15 & Sunday 10.00-13.15
Please transfer the payment to:
protagon e. V.
DE19500502010200045130
HELADEF1822
Frankfurter Sparkasse
Reason for payment: Gaga Dance Workshop
or per Paypal to
paypal@protagon.net
Reason for payment: Gaga Dance Workshop
AND write an E-Mail to workshops@protagon.net with your full name, phone number, your number of option and a screenshot of your transaction!
You have further questions? Also Here!
Be prepared:
Participants should wear comfortable clothes and be prepared to dance barefoot or in socks. It is advisable to bring a bottle of water and a towel for use after class.
The workshop will be hold in English.
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Impro theatre - Release your inner child
with Solal Mazet (antagon theaterAKTion)
Mondays in October 2023, 19:00-21:00
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In this Open Training, games are a very serious matter. They allow you to transform failure into fun, danger into amusement. When we were kids, we used to marvel at everything and say yes to anything.
Through impro theater we have the opportunity to leave the adult behind and create whole worlds solely with our imagination. As we come together in a moment of deep connection with ourselves and others, we nurture our confidence on stage and learn to let go and smile in the face of danger.
Hopefully, when we put our adult hat on again, we notice that we are no longer alone, but always accompanied by our inner child, to remind ourselves that life, is in fact, all a game.
Mo. 2.10. on relationship & connection
Learn to listen, accept and to support each other
Mo. 9.10. on spontaneity and playfulness
Learn to dare, to discover, to innovate
Mo. 16.10. on meaning and emotions
Learn to create meaningful interactions
Mo. 23.10. on creation and animation
Learn to paint with your animation
Mo 30.10. on imagination
All levels welcome / donation based / wear comfortable clothes / Language: english
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physical theatre - Follow/Resist
with Max Büttner (antagon theaterAKTion)
Mondays in June 2023, 19:00 (a class takes around 1,5 - 2 hours)
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When is the moment to follow, to accept a proposal? And when is it better to resist, to create a challenge? In this open training we will explore these questions through exercises of physical theatre and dance. We will use the principles of following and resisting to discover and expand our capacities of physical storytelling, both alone and with others.
In the interplay of expression and perception, action and reaction with one or more partners, we are looking to achieve a state of presence and flow, setting challenges and providing support to each other.
Each 90 minute session begins with a playful warm-up and exercises for the body and (sometimes) voice, and then moves into clearly structured improvisation and composition situations.
All levels welcome / donation based / wear comfortable clothes / Language: english
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Ecstatic Dance
Thursday 04/05/23, 19:00
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Let’s dive into the power of dance and movement igniting your inner fire and sparking your creativity. Together with the wind of live music we awake the potential of our bodies and mind, soaring to the heights of self-discovery. Step by step, we'll discover the joy and freedom that come with embodied movement, as we explore the depths of self-expression. This ecstatic dance session is a call to adventure, no matter if you're an experienced or just seeking to tap into your creative spirit. The magical live music of the antagon band will support and shape our journey.
Come and dance with us, awakening the magic within.
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All levels welcome / donation based / wear comfortable clothes / Language: english
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