Workshop: “Challenging gender markers. What is a masculine gesture?”
Israel Aloni, The Artistic Director of ilDance and Victor Persson, Company Dancer, are inviting; self-identifying male people with and without experience in physical work and/or performing, who are particularly interested in the physicality and behaviour of masculinity and manhood, to participate in the workshop titled “Challenging gender markers. What is a masculine gesture?” based on the research and materials of our piece - Boys Just Want to Have Fun.
The workshop will be held during Stockholm Fringe on 29 August at 14.00-17.00 (3 hours) at Stadsmuseet (Stockholm City Museum).
Content of the Workshop
The workshop starts with a movement session of The I.Aloni Experience led by Israel Aloni - a movement research practice which Aloni has been developing in the past 25 years. The practice works with movement, philosophy and psychology to enrich the experience of the practitioners through attentiveness to corporeality (their physical being) and its relation to the psyche (their personhood) and the World. The session is led as a guided improvisation where there is no importance to form or shape, rather to the encounters between the practitioners and the information which Aloni shares through the session.
Then Aloni and company artist , Victor Persson, will guide the group through an improvisation sessions followed by collective reflections. The improvisation sessions are prompted by some of the key concepts and/or exercises that Aloni and the performers of Boys Just Want To Have Fun have developed in the project. There is a specific methodological progression in the complexity and the depth with which the process is guided by Aloni and Persson. Throughout the workshop, references from art, culture, philosophy, discourse, politics and public affairs are introduced to layer the way we refer to maleness and manhood.
More info on Boys Just Want To Have Fun is here
More info about Israel Aloni and Victor Persson is here
Participation, Duration and Registration
The workshop is suitable for people aged 18 years and up. English proficiency is necessary for communication. Self-identifying male people with and without previous experience in physical work and/or performing, who are particularly interested in the physicality and behaviour of masculinity and manhood, to participate in the workshop are invited.
The workshop will be held on 29 August at 14.00-17.00 (3 hours) at Stadsmuseet (Stockholm City Museum).
The number of participants for this workshop is limited to 15 people.
Admission for the workshop is 170SEK (full price) and 120SEK (concession for those who cannot afford the full price). Registration is required. To participate in the workshop, please fill in your details on the online registration form and payment details here.
Registration will be open until a specific date (tbc), or until the maximum number of participants has been reached. Once the participation limit is reached, we will publish a notification and open a waiting list for any last-minute cancellations or changes.
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