Luke Jessop
TIJEN LAWTON
Mindful Stamina &
Conscious Risk
Workshop:
Mindful Stamina & Conscious Risk / The Body as an Open System
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Searching for a Conscious Risk and Trust in the Body - A Hidden Physical Morphology
When movement asks for full engagement, the connection with knowledge and resonance is inherent in the moving-thinking body, freedom appears naturally and knowledge swells.
This allows us to discover the relationship between the smallest level of activity within the body and the largest movement of the body, aligning the inner cellular movement with the external expression of dynamic movement through space.
We will engage in the dialogue of resistance, resolution, and resonance.
Through a dynamic movement language, we will embody a sensory awareness of our own physical possibilities, a search for an availability to all the layers of dynamic information in the body. We will facilitate an intertwined and many-layered space within the 4-dimensional body, to stimulate states of letting go, process, availability, and allowing, fostering a non-linear and ever-shifting practice of change.
Through the awakening and following of the natural yet deeply hidden physical morphology, we will facilitate a space to stimulate an availability of letting go of one's holding patterns and preconceptions of the moving body.
A continual dialogue between awareness and action, aware of the relationships that exist throughout our body/mind and acting from that awareness. The merging of action and awareness can allow for a conscious risk. A constant fall and abandon in the body combined with an understanding and availability to trust.
Bio:
Tijen's main body of works spans over a period of 30 years as a professional dance artist. Her work shifts between performing, teaching, mentoring, coaching, researching and co-creating in diverse artistic and academic contexts.
Artist and educator, she delves into the body as an archive, merging artistic practice and teaching. Through research and commitment to the unexplainable in movement, she cultivates heightened senses and ignites creative potential.
Tijen studied at Arts Educational School London, The Place LCDS London, The Juilliard School New York.
For 15 years, she was a constant presence in all of Jan Lauwers & Needcompany's work performing, creating and touring worldwide. Also performing, touring & collaborating with Caterina & Carlotta Sagna, Mauro Paccagnella & Wooshing Machine, Pierre Droulers, Erika Zueneli, As Palavras / Cie Claudio Bernardo, Greet Vissers & Kunstz, Mokhallad Rasem & het Toneelhuis, Marco Toricce, Lisaboa Houbrechts, Andrew Graham, laGeste, Sofiane et Selma Ouissi.