April 18-21
CLOUD/Danslab, The Hague
11:00 – 16:00
Individual artist fee: €200
Institutional fee: €300
Discounted fee: €50 (limited. Available depending on the number of institutional slots filled. Apply by April 12)
Reserve a spot HERE
Facilitators: Brandon Lagaert and Helene Malte
Language: English
Suitable for: movers and makers who want to explore their bodies in relation to the objects and instruments that they perform with.
This masterclass is led by dancer Brandon Lagaert and artist/architect Helene Malte. It is focused on researching movements with visuals/materials that embody states of melting and stretching. Through tasks derived from the work with Peeping Tom, your mind will be teased while your body is being challenged.
The masterclass will include a series of digitally drawn sequences generated throughout the process of exploring the theme Melting and Stretching. The idea is to probe the connections between the virtual, the physical, and the digital through a personal investigation of body and digital matter. Time, space and movement relations would become the basis of the work.
A close encounter between the body and a dynamic relation with technology will allow us to explore the direct generation of virtually accessible space. Body traces, lines, forms and movements will come together to create collectively generated digital space.
We want to highlight the performative aspect of physical substances such as paint, liquids and props in general together with the way technology can be used to tell a broader story. How can technology be used to share human stories about connection, loneliness, depression, mourning for example?
We will talk about visualising emotions through the usage of material but also about the crafting process of finding connections and deeper meaning after after having finished the pure technical research.
Participants can bring visuals, props, materials and instruments that have melting or stretching qualities to work with.
About the facilitators:
Brandon Lagaert has mainly crafted his signature style as an artist while working for the internationally renowned dance-theatre company Peeping Tom as a multidisciplinary performer in the pieces ‘Vader’, ‘Moeder’, ‘Kind’, ‘Dido & Aeneas’ and ‘La Visita’.
As a performer Lagaert combines elements coming from different disciplines such as dance, theatre and film into a unique style. As a director he often starts from the perspective of a performer to lay down a certain foundation before tackling the overall structure, this under the name of his company KAIHO. The current touring performances are the solo ‘Subdued’ based around stage-fright in which he performs himself and the solo ‘Mondo Fuso’ based on a melting woman’s body with dancer Sara Angelucci and musician Aline Goffin.
Helene Malte is an artist and architectural design researcher working on movement-body-space relations in x dimensions through experimentation with motion tracking, designing virtual spaces and making physical architectural installations. Her work involves drawing and narrating movement, probing its form, aesthetic and experiential potential through three dimensional models. As an educator and researcher, she works at the kunsthochschule berlin weissensee within the textile and surface design department where she is also researching augmented spinning, a traditional textile making process re-interpreted from a technological and spatial lens, to explore (real) human-machine collaboration and new ways of making architecture. Her work also involves complex modelling and simulation of precise geometries.
For inquiries please email yun@instrumentinventors.org
The Melting Movement Masterclass is presented by iii with financial support from Creative Industries Fund NL and The Municipality of The Hague.
