Shōnen company
FORME(S) DE VIE WORKSHOP
10:30 - 12:30, Wednesday November 12th to Thursday November 13th
Dansverkstæðið
Free
Interested parties should write to info@reykjavikdancefestival.is to register.
The dance workshop envisioned by the Shonen company invites participants to explore body language through a somatic approach. This workshop encourages a connection to the living body (soma). It proposes to explore the body’s innate intelligence, to develop movement-based bodily awareness, and to foster relationships with oneself and with the group. How can we renew our experience of language through the body? How do we perceive language through movement?
The workshop is open to amateur and professional dancers of all ages and physical conditions — anyone curious to deepen their connection to movement and internal sensations. Participants will be invited to explore various somatic tools and practices that question how we inhabit movement. For example, observing the movements of the ribcage produced by breathing, and seeing whether that moment can become the starting point of a dance.
Accessible for deaf people, blind people & people in wheelchair.
Shōnen, based in Marseille, was founded in 2007 by choreographer and visual artist Eric Minh Cuong Castaing. He is now an associate artist with Montpellier Danse and, with his company, at the Centre national de la création adaptée (CNCA) in Morlaix, in Bourges, European Capital of Culture 2028, and in partnership with the Comédie de Genève and the Collection Lambert in Avignon. Shōnen leads “in socius” projects, which aim to embed the artistic process within societal realities, establishing concrete links between the world of art and specialized institutions (medical-educational institutes, hospitals, NGOs, research laboratories, schools, etc.). Alongside its collaborators, Shōnen explores the question of bodies in all their diversity and the implications of their dance collaborations for an alter-spectacular that questions our representations, bringing together performers, some of whom are disabled or impaired. The company has produced some fifteen works — shows or performances, films, installations — some of which are co-authored with playwright Marine Relinger (Phoenix, 2018), Marine Relinger and Aloun Marchal (L’âge d’or - 2018, Forme(s) de vie - 2021, Parc - 2022, Vision - 2026) or director Anne-Sophie Turion (HIKU - 2023). The Shonen company is accredited by the DRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and supported by the City of Marseille.
Workshop led by Nans Pierson and Yumiko Funaya.
