August 24 - 29 / 2009 • 10:30 - 16h

Intensive Workshop • Moved by Berlin
Site specific Dance Performance and Camera
Brenda Waite and Jenny Haack

This workshop project addresses the visual composition of dance and performance in the city spaces of Berlin.
Each day begins with a warm-up in the studio to open our bodies to improvise and compose in front of a camera. We focus on Solo and small group compositions.
Looking at different places in the nearby city- surroundings, we work site specifically and engage in developing tools for the use of perspective and timing.
We use moving camera as much as still camera to create short video film- sketches in a team-work, (edited in-camera).
The main focus of the course is to develop individual skills in creating visual choreography as seen through the eye of a camera - finding your own way from an inspiration to visual realisation in a short-time-frame and as a team-work.
Post-processing of footage is not part of the workshop!
Workshop languages/ Unterricht: English / Deutsch, depending on the group
Please bring:
• experience in moving, dancing, acting or similar • a strong desire to create
• your own camera (if you do not have one, please contact me beforehand)

Studio: K77 Studio, Berlin
Costs: 150/ 125 Euro red.

Brenda Waite
is an experienced teacher and performer of dance theater, physical comedy and improvisation. She has created and toured performance work throughout Australia and Europe for over 20 years and involves improvisation as a central element in her performance practise.
She regularly facilitates Improvisation Labs and spaces for artistic exchange including the Flummery Room in Bristol and the Living Room Practise in Berlin.
She has a particular interest in working in alternative spaces and is currently running a movement training and performance project 'Urban Dance Adventures'. Her classes encourage individual expression and invention within a supportive framework and playful atmosphere.

Jenny Haack
Choreografin, Tanzperformerin, freischaffende Künstlerin, Dozentin
Mein Hauptinteresse gilt dem individuellen Ausdruck des Körpers in Stimme und Bewegung.
In meinen Arbeiten thematisiere ich vor allem die Verbindung von Bewegung und Choreografie mit Video/ Bewegtbild.
Als Dozentin arbeite ich mit unterschiedlichen Altersgruppen und in verschiedenen sozialen Kontexten (Schule/ Universität/ Weiterbildung), mit Laien und Profis, Erwachsenen, Jugendlichen und Kindern.
Inspiriert durch verschiedene Einladungen als Dozentin und Gastspiele im In- und Ausland, arbeite ich an einer Vernetzung und Förderung eines kontinuierlichen internationalen Austausches zwischen Tanz- und Videokünstlern.
Meine Basis: New Dance, Contact-Improvisation, Instant-Composition, Visual Arts Diploma