The main working language of the workshop will be English and, partly, Spanish. A high level of English is not required, and if translation is needed, we will support each other.
We have invited Aleksandar Georgiev – Ace to lead a four-day workshop at Graner to share his methodology and practice with the local body and movement community. The laboratory is open to anyone with some physical knowledge and experience in dance (not specifically for professionals). It welcomes people from different fields and artistic languages who are interested in working with the body and its performativity. At the same time, it takes queer practice as a starting point, but it is not limited to people who identify as queer.
FANTASTIC FUTURES – a beginning invites participants to explore tenderness, slowness, retro-performativity, and anal politics, not as rigid practices but as political notions from which performative tools emerge. Over the past seven years, I have developed a practice centered on grace, comfort, and the pleasure of the moving body, especially in relation to being observed. This research unfolds as a proposal of radical softness and tenderness, understood as active forms of resistance, while emphasizing celebration, drama, and affect through a slow tempo. The exploration continues with tools for co-thinking, co-dreaming, and co-imagining, filling the space with empowerment practices rooted in softness and conceiving choreography as a site of values, imaginaries, and possible futures in coexistence.
Practical information:
- Dates: October 20–23
- Schedule: 5 pm – 8 pm
- Venue: Graner, dance and performing arts creation centre (c/ Jane Addams 14-16, Barcelona: how to get there)
- Availability: Applications from those able to attend all sessions will be prioritized, but a minimum attendance of 80% (3 out of 4 sessions) is strictly required.
- Fee: €50
- Notes: A final opening of the laboratory is foreseen, subject to the prior consensus of the group.
Timeline and registration within the call: APPLICATION FORM
- Call open: September 18 – October 10
- Call results (via email): October 13 (once your spot is confirmed, you will receive a link to complete the registration with the corresponding payment)
- Registration deadline: October 16 (if you do not complete this last step, we will have to release your spot)
- Laboratory start: October 20
The invitation to Aleksandar Georgiev at Graner is part of the center’s cross-residency program, in dialogue with LAV-C Laboratorio de Artes Vivas y Ciudadanía de Canarias.
The video features images from the opening of the laboratory that Aleksandar Georgiev carried out in 2024, invited by Colectivo RPM, in collaboration with the Auditorio de Galicia and with the support of A/CE Cultura and the Live Arts Laboratory of Tenerife.
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