Date: May 19
Time: 10:00am – 11:30pm
Venue: Halifax Dance , Maritime Centre , 1505 Barrington St Lobby Level, Halifax, NS B3J 3Y6
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We invite participants from all levels and all performative backgrounds.

The choreographic workshop proposes a vigorous and intimate process that challenges participating collaborators conceptually, physically, and personally in an attempt to continuously search for our true essence as artists and individuals. The process invites a collective questioning of political and philosophical ideals as the starting points for the creative process.

The process challenges each artist towards an embodiment and deconstruction of unusual states —  as situations that are both mental and physical. What is described as states — we question how they are internalized and externalized in coexistence with each other, with the aim to arrive at a physical language that is rhythmical, transparent, dynamic, virtuosic and vulnerable.

Peña’s works invite a collective questioning of political and philosophical ideals as the starting points for the creative process. Choreographically AP&A’s work searches for presence rather than performance, through a juxtaposition of complex ideas investigated in the physical potentials of the body as unusual states. The workshop will explore various improvisation exercises to explore your own physical and conceptual potentials.