The Meaning of Movement
How do we understand, talk and write about dance and movement? And how do dancers and choreographers work to fill movement with meaning? Coming up during the CoDa 2013, Oslo International Dance festival, Dance Information Norway invites three acknowledged artists bridging dance and literature, Cecilie Lindemann Steen, Geir Gulliksen, and Janne Camilla Lyster to reflect on and explore these questions.
What makes a movement seem significant, meaningfull, alive, interesting, new. Does it come from the inside, from the dancers’ access to own experiences? Does it come from the outside, from what we see around us, or from a feeling of what’s valid right now in current dance? Or does it come from the one watching, from the spectator’s access to own experience by way of what the dancer is able to awaken? Yes, and yes, and yes. The answer is that we don’t fully now. *
-Geir Gulliksen
In ”Creating meaning. A work demonstration” Cecilie Lindeman Steen shows how choreographic choices and the intention of the dancer influences a movement material. Its a unique meeting with one of Norway’s leading dance artists with over 30 years of experience from the performing arts field.
Geir Gulliksen and Janne Camilla Lyster invite the audience to join their investigation of movement, perception and language. The purpose is to discover what it is that makes a particular movement significant, both for whoever is dancing and the one that watches. Gulliksen is one of Norways most acknowledged authors aswell as publisher behind the publishing house October while Lyster is sucsessful on many fronts, both as dancer, choreographer and author.
The seminar takes place Sunday 29’th of September during the CoDa festival in Oslo, at Dansens Hus, from 12-15.00.