Upcoming events
Peripatetic Praxis & Hand Clad Feet
Collaborative Workshop with Frey Faust
November 5 - 8, 2015
BERLIN - Studio Abada
4-Day Intensive workshop exploring walking and shoe-making
Collaborative Workshop with Frey Faust
November 5 - 8, 2015
BERLIN - Studio Abada
4-Day Intensive workshop exploring walking and shoe-making
HAND CLAD FEET
It's been nine years since I started to make my own shoes, and today I am proud to say that I only wear shoes made by my own hand. The reason I started this journey was because I couldn't find shoes in my size, and the discrepancy was hurting my feet. The skill to make shoes opens up a raft of other capacities: bags, belts, portmonnaie, ipad and cell phone covers etc. Because I travel so much, I have evolved a method that uses very few tools, and that allows me to work practically anywhere.
The study of anatomy, and a tour of clinical research results has sharpened my appraisal of shoes, and clarified the importance of the shoe as a factor in the conditions for healthy walking. Packing the foot into a form-fitting, arch-filled shoe is like putting your foot in a cast... remember what happened to that broken arm when it was put into a cast? The muscles atrophied! You want a strong, alert, capable foot, not a useless appendage waiting for a prosthetic replacement. The best thing of course is to make your own shoes, or have them made for you, because each foot is slightly different than the other one, and a custom made shoe will do these differences justice.
- Frey Faust
It's been nine years since I started to make my own shoes, and today I am proud to say that I only wear shoes made by my own hand. The reason I started this journey was because I couldn't find shoes in my size, and the discrepancy was hurting my feet. The skill to make shoes opens up a raft of other capacities: bags, belts, portmonnaie, ipad and cell phone covers etc. Because I travel so much, I have evolved a method that uses very few tools, and that allows me to work practically anywhere.
The study of anatomy, and a tour of clinical research results has sharpened my appraisal of shoes, and clarified the importance of the shoe as a factor in the conditions for healthy walking. Packing the foot into a form-fitting, arch-filled shoe is like putting your foot in a cast... remember what happened to that broken arm when it was put into a cast? The muscles atrophied! You want a strong, alert, capable foot, not a useless appendage waiting for a prosthetic replacement. The best thing of course is to make your own shoes, or have them made for you, because each foot is slightly different than the other one, and a custom made shoe will do these differences justice.
- Frey Faust
PREVIOUS EVENTS
TUNING, TIME, & TEMPO(RALITY)
August 18 - 23, 2015 - PUGLIA, ITALY: NOMADIC COLLEGE
The workshop will employ theoretical and practical input, discussion, individual and group improvisation, and site-specific experiences in the landscape.
August 18 - 23, 2015 - PUGLIA, ITALY: NOMADIC COLLEGE
- What is subjective time?
- How much of our perception of time is biological, cultural?
- How does our individual anatomy define/influence our experience of time?
- How does the environment define/influence our sense of time?
- What strategies do we use to manipulate our perception of time?
- How do we share the moment?
- How do we dance together?
- How do we dance alone?
- How do we orient/use time to deconstruct a dance phrase?
- How can we use embodiment & gesture to generate soft experiences of time?
The workshop will employ theoretical and practical input, discussion, individual and group improvisation, and site-specific experiences in the landscape.
THE ART OF MIGRATION - SYMPOSIUM + LAB
GENOA, ITALY
Lab: May 15th - 18th, 2014
Symposium: May 13th
In collaboration with Davide Francesca
Teatro Modena, hosted by Danzareteatro
Realized by retedanzacontempoligure
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Where: Sala Mercato / Teatro dell'Archivolto – Genova Sampierdarena
Schedule: Thursday & Friday: 2 - 6 pm; Saturday & Sunday 10 am – 1 pm and 2.30 – 5.30pm
The workshop is open to dancers and lovers of walking who are interested in the topic of migration and its resonances. It also resonates with those who want to discover the city of Genoa through a new point of view.
Participation in the lab is limited to a maximum of 15 participants.
Fees: 4 days 90€ ; weekend only 50€
Registration: associazionecqb@gmail.com
THE ART OF WALKING - 6-DAY WORKSHOP
NOMADIC COLLEGE @ EARTHDANCE - Massachusetts, USA
June 16 - 21, 2014
During the workshop we will use the anatomical and biomechanical tools that the axis syllabus can offer to analyze the subtle relationships within the structure of the body: safe alignment, weight distribution, the undulations in the spine, and the collaboration between the myofascial fabric that facilitates the natural spirals moving out of and back into the body. We will work in the studio, and also in the surrounding landscape where the environment will further inform our relations - including a moment spent exploring. We will also explore and discuss the cultural/historical realms that are bound up in the practice of walking; walking as meditation, as communion, as loss and abandon - walking as migration and change, both personal and ancestral. In marriage ceremonies, funeral processions, pageants and parades, pilgrimage, military drills - walking is a practice that permeates many of the most culturally symbolic rituals of our species. Together we will discover how, through the mechanics of walking, we can find the principles of all movement. Starting from a walk, we will move into a dance that can express who we think we are - and who we are not.
NOMADIC COLLEGE @ EARTHDANCE - Massachusetts, USA
June 16 - 21, 2014
- Walking is a practice common to all human beings and cultures.
- Walking is a willingness to accept falling, instantly recovering, and being ready to fall again. Walking is to listen to the deep dialogue between the body and the environment.
- We walk every day. We walk with different rhythms; different objectives; through different states of mind.
During the workshop we will use the anatomical and biomechanical tools that the axis syllabus can offer to analyze the subtle relationships within the structure of the body: safe alignment, weight distribution, the undulations in the spine, and the collaboration between the myofascial fabric that facilitates the natural spirals moving out of and back into the body. We will work in the studio, and also in the surrounding landscape where the environment will further inform our relations - including a moment spent exploring. We will also explore and discuss the cultural/historical realms that are bound up in the practice of walking; walking as meditation, as communion, as loss and abandon - walking as migration and change, both personal and ancestral. In marriage ceremonies, funeral processions, pageants and parades, pilgrimage, military drills - walking is a practice that permeates many of the most culturally symbolic rituals of our species. Together we will discover how, through the mechanics of walking, we can find the principles of all movement. Starting from a walk, we will move into a dance that can express who we think we are - and who we are not.
