Repertoire and Movement Language|Catherine Gaudet & James Phillips | U of C

This workshop is conceived as a research and exploration laboratory where, through various avenues—visualizations, phantasmagoria, and role-playing—the choreographer will develop a style created directly on the dancers. The aim is to approach an ambiguous, shifting, ever-complex, even contradictory, sensitive posture from which the choreographic material will take shape.

Participants will be invited to explore a corporeality woven from subtle physical and psychological contradictions, where each individual's conscious and unconscious resistances and impulses will become active compositional materials.

In close collaboration with the participants, and through the interweaving of their creative intuitions with the choreographer's vision and writing, the workshop will seek this multifaceted state that constantly shifts, unfolds, and metamorphoses, in order to delve into the development of a dramaturgy of transformation.

Location: Universi