February 19, 2022 | 11:00AM
Bartlett Arts Rehearsal Space (BARS)
Free
Description:
Dance is the art of being. Ayako wants to offer this workshop as a practice of being,—as a human, mover, performer, artist, dancer, and choreographer. Through this practice, Ayako will share the way to find our centered, grounded, and balanced selves through imagery (and physical reality) based exercises. Through improvisational and simple compositional exercises, participants will raise a keen awareness of the expansiveness as well as the depth of being. Participants will explore ways to open up the body-mind as an empty conduit to welcome new wind flow through themselves and feel fullness. Ayako will share how to expand and develop the tangible and intangible tensegrity (tension x integrity) through our bodies and minds to sense new relationships within and around us. Participants will be asked to create their own short dance at the end.
About Ayako Kato:
Called “moving everyday sculptures, artfully cast in naturalness” (Luzerner Zeitung, Switzerland), Ayako Kato is an award-winning Japanese-native contemporary and experimental dance choreographer and dancer. She established her company Ayako Kato/Art Union Humanscape (AUH) in 1998 and has created work through interdisciplinary collaboration with more than sixty musician-composers, and has toured throughout the US, Japan, and Europe. Ayako's practice is grounded on the principles of "furyu," Japanese for “wind flow”, as it relates to cyclical transformation and human motion in nature.
To learn more about Ayako, please visit: https://www.ayakokatodance.com