Movement

  • Parallax dramaturgies in embodied dialogues

    Parallax dramaturgies in embodied dialogues This workshop was developed by Riikka Theresa Innanen and Gudrun Beckmann as part of the final seminar ‘Towards a pedagogy of imaginative dialogues’, August, 2023. Introduction In this workshop we investigate how can we benefit from the different points of view in democracy, and of how we both inhabit spaces…

  • Move with me 

    Move with Me In short Students developed this idea for an imaginative dialogue with elderly people in care homes during the intensive week in Helsinki, 2021 By Maikki Uotila-Kraatz, Sigurbjörn Ingvarsson and Willette Boersma Move With Me is a playful but intriguing invitation that asks questions with our dancing movements and could be initiated by the…

  • Rythm of the heart 

    Rythm of the Heart In short   PIMDI students presentation from the Helsinki Intensive week in 2021 that describes encounters with elderly people in care homes. Description   Musician, dancer and visual artist trio invited the participants to listen, respond and move to the rhythm of their bodies. Students wanted to build a loose frame around…

  • Listening walk

       Listening walk In short   A prerequisite of any dialogue, hence also the imaginative dialogue, is the sensitivity of listening. This is an exercise where the participants share their choice of place and a poem in their own language. The participants make recordings of their exploration and reading of the poem. Each participant is conscious…

  • WALKING AND ENCOUNTERING: building embodied connections

    Walking and Encountering: Building Embodied Connections by Myrskyryhmä – The Tempest Group (Elli Isokoski and Pauliina Laukkanen) In Short: This exercise guides the participant into an embodied experiencing of self with others. It creates and supports an embodied connection between participants. Set-Up:  Large open space, group of participants. Timeframe: Approximately 30 minutes. Before the start…

  • Before / After

    Before / After Imagine a statue In Short: It is a short exercise to elaborate on different perspectives of a theme in an embodied way. There are numerous variations and follow-ups for this exercise possible.  Each participant could come up with the opposing concepts in relation to the theme of getting older, for example „wanderlust/homesick“, „ambitious/disinterested”…