Impressions from the workshops in Utrecht

We enjoyed exchanging our way of working with Andrea and Steffie a lot.

We got inspired by Andrea’s and Steffie’s way of Drifting through the city and how you can dance and play on the street while moving as a group through the city. Also working with elderly people in Munich and the experience with headphones on (audio walk) was interesting.

We discovered that by inviting Andrea and Steffie from Munich we strengthened our work and our relations with organisations in Utrecht and at the same time new collaborations in Utrecht developed.

By reflecting on our work we can clearly see the value of our Community Art Projects ‘Looping Spaces’ and ‘Common Stage’. We work as Artist Educators and that means we always start with ourselves and the relationship with the people of our community. We have time for everyone personally and we could call it an Art Based Community. Looping Spaces allows everyone to participate in their own way. Seeing people in their strength creating, collaborating, playing is such a pleasure!

Impressions from the workshops in Munich

Hin und Her - Movement and Playing in Public Space

Two workshops in München (DE)

PROGRAM Friday October 6th and Saturday October 7th - München Sendling

Friday 15.00h-17.00h 'Audio_Spazier_Tanz' workshop with Andrea Marton & Stephanie Felber (DE)

Would you like to discover the city/your district together? Together we take a look at familiar and less familiar places, streets and paths in Sendling.

What makes a place familiar, accessible, invites you to linger, and which places do we experience more as places of transit? What do we do there and what would we never do there? How do we come into contact with others? What role does my body and the way I move play in this? What else can I do other than walk, stand, sit in public spaces?

Saturday 10.00h-12.00h ‘Looping Spaces’ workshop with Susan Bink and Susi Rosenfeld (NL)

We are staying in a public space in Munchen Sendling for around two hours and we explore by playing: How do you sense space and how do you move in it? How can we create a performance and how can we involve passers-by?

After warming up together, we explore the theatrical play of everyday life. Scenes that unfold and which you can join: When are you a leader, follower or witness? We work with observation exercises, (dance) scorecards and from materials such as sticks and ice.

Enjoyment of the unexpected, play and creating together are central.

Open to everyone (sign up)

Free entrance

Welcome to join both workshops or choose one of them

Starting point: Kultuurzentrum Luise, Ruppertstraße 5, München
Join, info & sign up: andrea.marton@gmx.de

These workshops are part of the exchange project hin&her. Hin&her is supported by The Cultural Participation Fund. The Cultural Participation Fund aims to encourage and increase participation in the arts and culture.

In collaboration with Kulturzentrum Luise

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hin&her - Movement and Playing in Public Space

Two workshops on Sunday June 18th

PROGRAM Sunday June 18th

11.00h Start walking from De Voorkamer to Dafne Schippersbrug

11.30-14.00h ‘Looping Spaces’ workshop with Susan Bink and Susi Rosenfeld (NL)
We are staying in a public space for around two hours and we explore by playing: How do you sense space and how do you move in it? How can we create a performance and how can we involve passers-by?
After warming up together, we explore the theatrical play of everyday life. Scenes that unfold and which you can join: When are you a leader, follower or witness? We work with observation exercises, (dance) scorecards and from materials such as sticks and ice.

14.00-16.00h Picnic in park Oog in Al. Bring something to share.

16.00-17.30h ‘DRIFT/citywalk’ workshop with Andrea Marton & Stephanie Felber (DE)
We will explore the neighbourhood by drifting through it (citywalk). You can experience the dance walk with your individual music (smartphones with headphones) or without music. We then move as a group, drifting, as a constantly reorienting swarm of diverse dancing and walking people.

18.00-20.00h Lemonade, coffee and snacks at De Voorkamer

Starting point: De Voorkamer, Kanaalstraat 225, Utrecht

Open to everyone (sign up)
Free entrance
Join, sign up: info@loopingspaces.nl

These workshops are part of the exchange project hin&her. Hin&her is supported by The Cultural Participation Fund. The Cultural Participation Fund aims to encourage and increase participation in the arts and culture.

In collaboration with Het Wilde Westen and De Voorkamer.

hin&her - Playing with landscapes at Common Stage

Monday June 19th

PROGRAM Monday June 19th

15.00-17.00h Playing with landscapes at Common Stage

We are an international group with a variety of backgrounds and play, dance, make theater and music. We work with video, projection, fotos and storytelling.
We celebrate and create improvisational performances.

The door to Common Stage is open. You can sit on a cajon and watch, listen or play the beat. You can join the musicians or you can play and dance along. We have two pianos and instruments people bring along like kora, oud, saxophone, flute, banjo, guitar, or percussion instruments.
We explore how to create walk-in installations and how to play and dance with a variety of materials like sticks, ropes, rolls of paper, or balloons. We play with different lighting moods and we like shadows a lot. Together we create a common language.

17.30h Enjoying some food together at Common Table

Location: Het Wilde Westen, Everard Meijsterlaan 1b, Utrecht

Open to everyone
Free entrance
Welcome to drop-in at 15.00h.
If you already know you're joining common table, tell us, so we can estimate the amount of people for Common Table.

In collaboration with Het Wilde Westen and De Voorkamer.

hin&her

dance in public space
Connecting Communities, Utrecht (NL) - Munich (DE)

In this exchange project, we meet Andrea Marton and Stephanie Felber from Munich. We share and exchange ways of working in participatory dance projects in public space.

Andrea and Stephanie also work in public space with mixed groups of people with diverse ages, backgrounds and experiences. In 2023, we are going to share our methods to find out in which way this connects people from the communities we participate in.

In June Andrea and Steffie will first visit Utrecht to get to know the neighbourhood of Utrecht-West. They will give a workshop and join two of our workshops as well. We will invite people from the neighbourhood and together with the group, we will reflect and explore ways of working in the future. In October we will visit Andrea and Stephanie in their communities in Munich.

We play with the idea to go in 2024 with a group of people from Utrecht to Munich and vice versa to experience different landscapes, move, dance and perform together. How do we move as a group in a familiar environment and how in a new environment? In public space in two countries: in the city, in the woods, in the mountains, and by the sea.

Hin&her is supported by The Cultural Participation Fund. The Cultural Participation Fund aims to encourage and increase participation in the arts and culture.

In collaboration with Het Wilde Westen, De Voorkamer and Kulturzentrum Luise.