Hello Everyone!!!
I am happily inviting you all to an interesting workshop called "Empty Body/Meditative dance" by Mehdi Farajpour(France/Iran).
http://mehdifarajpour.com/

When: 10:30-16:30 at 23rd & 24th Nov, 2013
Where: Oslo Teatersenter
Who: Actors, Dancers, Performers and anyone who is interested in the workshop
Price: 1000kr before 30th of Oct and 1300kr after for both days
We can offer one person to take the workshop for free, please contact us if you need!

About the workshop
Empty body is the most proper form of body for dancers as well as for performers. An empty body is the purest form of being which does not carry any character nor any characteristics. So, an Empty body can easily represent any elements in the world. It can remain stood up as a tree for years, or stay motionless as a stone for ages, it can breath as the air and wave as the wind. To avoid any fake and naive image from the method, this all needs a deep understanding from spirituality, poetry, Meditation and Sufism. The workshop Meditative dance is trying to give a basic taste of all this to its audience.
Conclusion: Through the course participants would learn basic lessons of creating choreographies inspired by poetry, nature, imagination as well as everyday life. On the way of looking for an new dance style, the method gives a try to different dance forms, bodily expressions, cyclic yoga, body/mind research styles and of course the Poetry.

For more information, please have a closer look at the website below.
http://mehdifarajpour.com/workshops-classes/concentrative-movement
http://oriantheatre.com/

We hope this workshop will lead to future collaborations as Mehdi & myself are planning to produce a performance based on this method in 2014.

Please feel free to contact me for any questions and registration for the workshop: cuteja at gmail dot com

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When the frogs sing -theater production 2012-2013

This is an experimental theater performance for children using sensory elements. It’s an interesting meeting between installation-performance and young audience. The production is dealing about fart through fantasy story about frogs living in people’s bottom (frog=fart). This performance is a playful journey/game which children search for what makes OupOup/GegulGegul/KeroKero/KvekkKvekk sound
through the performance. About 30 mins long.

Imagine that we all have our own frogs in our bottoms and they tend to sing sometimes. And when we listen to their singing, we dance and our body moves naturally.

In reality we call it fart. The interesting sounds, smells, dynamics, rhythms and melodies of farts are the main materials of our production together with the different ways of expressing of frog’s sound in different languages. For example, the frogs sing (make sound) ”kvekk kvekk” in Norwegian. In Korean, we express that they sing (make sound) “gegul gegul”, “oup oup” in Thai, “ribit ribit” in English and “kero kero” in Japanese.

Young audience will take a journey into a space where they can expereince 3 stages of frog life; Egg- tadpole- adults created by sounds/words, lights, smells(?) and texture and movements. Of course here the frog is the metaphore of fart. 

Artistic director/writer/leader of the project- Kyuja Bae(Korea/Norway)

Scenographer/costume maker/technical operator/co-creator- Sarah FJ(Norway/Denmark)

Music composer/co-creator –Erik Daehlin(Norway)

Performer/co-creator- Fernanda Branco(Brazil),

Photographer/graphic designer- Ioannis Lelakis(Greece/Norway),

Producer/administrative manager- Patricia Canellis(France/Greece/Norway)

Costume maker/consultant- Camilla Wexels(Norway)

Light- Bjarte Blixt(Norway)

short version of the performance (password : frogs)

https://vimeo.com/68476689

if you want to see the full version of the performance,

please feel free to contact me at cuteja@gmail.com

This production is invited to Rampelys Festival in Oslo 4th May 2013 as special guest performance and it was supported by Norwegian arts council(2009), SEANSE(a week residency, 2012), Kunstloftet(2012), Fond for lyd og bilde(2012), Fredistad commune(2013) and St. Croix in Fredrikstad.