Moving

  • Traveling through time and space 

    Traveling through time and space   In short: Inspired by Time Loop by Building Conversation this practice invites its participants to an embodied conversation where the participants use their imagination experiencing different pace of living things in the different timelines. Gaia has been brought out as a Mother Earth who has been always there from the…

  • Exploring a physical dialogue

    Exploring a physical dialogue  In short:  This practice asks how we can share a space and relate to each other through physical dialogue while maintaining and/or exploring one ́s own agency. The group of master students invited their participants to engage in physical dialogue in a way that offered them the chance to maintain their own…

  • 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…

  • Sculpting a Picture

    Sculpting a Picture Defining a professional role by making an embodied picture: using other students as material Purpose:          Who with:       Variations:                  This exercise is used at the master’s programme in Groningen at the beginning of the arts pedagogical studies.

  • Propositions

    Propositions Background: Propositions comes from a/r/tography , from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada, Senses Sustainability Education. Purpose: Who for: Variations: Helene Illeris and Lisbet Skregelid, a shared teaching practice, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.

  • Room Based Writing

    Room Based Writing At the start of a learning process, when starting to think about a specific topic, for example ‘light’ or ‘water’. Purpose: Who with: Variations: Author: Gunndis Yr Finnbogadottir, Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavik.

  • Dancing to Playlist Related to Months 

    Dancing to Playlist Related to Months This method was created for a reflection session that covered the whole academic year. Instructions: Purpose: Who for: Variations: Duration: Author: Eeva Anttila, University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland.

  • A Personal Running Practice

    A Personal Running Practice Running 5 kilometers three times a week Purpose: Who for: Variations: Article: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jade.12381 Author: Lisbet Skregelid, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.

  • Walking, Photographing and Recording

    Walking, Photographing and Recording Walking in nature Purpose: Article on the topic coming out later Author: Tormod Anundsen, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.

  • Movement Reflection (inspired by the method of Authentic Movement)

    Movement Reflection (inspired by the method of Authentic Movement) Background: Authentic Movement is an approach to creative movement practice (originally known as Movement-in-depth) developed by dancer and Jungian psychologist Mary Starks Whitehouse. Purpose: Who with: Variations: Duration: Author: Liisa Jaakonaho, University of the Arts Helsinki.

  • Reflection Through Movement

    Reflection Through Movement At the end of a class, or after a set of tasks, participants may choose a location in the space where they feel comfortable, either standing up or sitting down. Purpose: Who with: Variations: Duration: Author: Pauliina Laukkanen, Tempest Group / visiting teacher at the University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland.

  • Check in as Weather Condition

    Name and Weather Condition In the PIMDI intensive week in Iceland, this exercise was done when the group first met together. In a circle, each person takes their turn, saying their name and a weather condition that they relate to or feel that they could embody at that moment. Purpose: Who with: Variations: Duration: Authors:…

  • Leaving Tracks: From Drawing Traces to Choreography

    Leaving Tracks: From Drawing Traces to Choreography In Short In this workshop, we want to investigate how you relate to the material and how you relate to the other. Alone and together. By moving and drawing you leave traces. Together we will investigate the human dimension. We make the same movements and yet different tracks…

  • Generative storytelling with different perspectives

    Generative Storytelling with Different Perspectives In short Generating a narrative that captures a meaningful place by scrambling individually written words and sentences related to that place into a collective prose or poetic story. This is an exercise where visiting PIMDI master students ask the local upper secondary pupils to take them to a place that…

  • String Dance

    String dance In short Students developed this idea for an imaginative dialogue with elderly people in care homes during the intensive week in Helsinki, 2021 By Eva Blaak, Maggi Asbjørnsen and Moona Nevalainen Students invited the participants to sit on a cushion placed on the floor in a circle. The facilitator explained the key rules…

  • 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”…