Open Call: The Body Image Method / Repertoire Lab #1

CONDITIONS

• A total of 16 participants will be selected — 10 dancers from Romania and 6 dancers from other European countries.
• Participation in the workshop is free of charge. 
• International participants will receive travel and accommodation support of up to 550 EUR (transportation, shared room with twin beds).
• At the end of the workshop, at least two dancers will be selected for future collaboration opportunities. The prospected periods are specified in the application form.
• Participation in the workshop is open to all applicants; however, priority may be given to dancers who are interested in potential future collaborations with our collective.

THE BODY IMAGE METHOD 

The workshop introduces a set of chrono-poetical tools that decentralize the body and place it in ongoing dialogue with its inner processes and the surrounding world. Participants explore cyborg forms of embodiment, moving beyond fixed ideas of anatomy, control, and identity. The techniques focus on working with temporality—alternating, stretching, compressing, and dislocating time—to create new images and shift habitual patterns of movement.

Inspired by systems of distributed intelligence, the workshop offers movement tools that invite the body to shift, reshape, and discover new ways of responding to its environment. References range from the adaptive behavior of an octopus to the complex networks formed by gut bacteria, opening up imaginative pathways for movement research. Tasks emphasize breath work, volumetric movement, and speed modulation, allowing dancers to distort, fold, and extend the body through time.

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This workshop is part of Extended Bodies. Performative Routes, a cultural project co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The project does not necessarily represent the official position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN shall not be held liable for the program’s content or any use to which the program outcome might be put. These are the sole responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.