#Precarious Pleasures:
How to Make
Something In:visible

This will be a movement workshop aimed for the queer/trans community. Making use of somatic exercises, theatre making and instant composition frame work, there will be a main focus on how to enhance our presence in space. We will also include the use of voice and text as material in our creative process. Being aware of our individual rhythm to build a collective sense of rhythm. While moving, trying to compose on the spot and improvise in a group, there is an increased potential for failure – we start by embracing failure and the shame that often comes along, turning it into pleasure and joy. We will work towards unlearning and embracing small failures and the vulnerability of the unknown as part of the collective creative process. Towards the end, we aim to create and show short improvised pieces. There will be moments to compose, to reflect and share, to write and to rest.

Oliver Artur (he/they) is a queer transgender movement artist. His movement practice finds grounding in techniques like: Skinner Releasing Technique®, Contact Improvisation, Body-Mind Centering®, stream of conscious writing, Butoh and other practices that center awareness & care. Playfulness, physical euphoria, the wild, soft and daring are the main sources of inspiration for his work. Committed to deconstructing linear and normative patterns of the status quo while making space for new, disruptive and queer ways of welcoming failure and realness in the dance making.