Avril 12, 2014 I attended the dance workshop

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Groupe Entorse | Samuel Lefeuvre et Raphaëlle Latini
autour d’Hantologie | création 2014
Samedi 12 avril de 15h à 17h

at Atelier de Paris Carolyn Carlson. The studio was in a really beautiful neighborhood near Chateau Vincennes. I was not sure if the workshop was gonna be interesting, but I knew I would discover a new space there, and it would be worthwhile anyway. I received an email in the morning saying that it was full, but I thought that “f**” the rule, I must go anyway. I must be more aggressive when I want to grab the opportunity. I had been always so timid, and I wanted to change that. Hahah, when I arrived there, the staff there said that of course I could join. Now I got the lesson, no matter what they said in the email, just go and there would be always someone being absent and they were not gonna kick you out. The workshop was interesting in the beginning and we experimented with a head flashlight. Because of language problem, I did not really understand what they are experimenting. The whole studio is in dark and there were some technical equipment which plays music, and there were some strange sculptures rotating as well. They also produce once in a while the white gas (the dry co2). They two dancers started doing some weird movements and shaking. I did not really like this style because it was not the type of dance that I appreciated. I wanted to learn some new vocabulary and ideas. What they have was not clear and not interesting enough to me. Later, I understood that they were making a ritual attempting to get people enter the zone as the dancers do. How would that be possible for the spectators to enter the same mind zone as you? There were no common and central belief there. The only interesting I found was that there was one session the two dancers stand around the rotating sculpture. On the sculpture, there are some small dolls in different pose. Every time the doll turn to them, they copy the pose of the dolls. When the sign “clap” turn to them, they clap. When the sign ” ouh” turn to them, they yelled out “ouh.” There was another session that was interesting was that they pretend there are audience and do thank you to the air. I found it funny.

There are some interesting sections, but it was boring in general. After the second session, I decided to leave. Even though the workshop was not that interesting, I met some nice people. One of them is master students studying “point of view theory in theater” (something like that) She is writing her “memoir” the master thesis right now. It was about how to prepare the actors or actrice before the play. She had to do a practical experiment and write about 100 pages thesis. Another one was a artist who sing, paint and create sculpture. The third one was a man who play electronic music. It was good to meet some new people because you always learn something new and know about their life story. The master student and I we have planned to watch a performance together in may.