HUMUS
PROFESSIONAL DANCE PROGRAM through CONTEMPORARY TOOLS
[ Bologna (IT) ]
from lat. humus "soil, earth, soil"
1. Complex of organic substances present in the soil, of fundamental importance for the nutrition of plants, derived from the synthesis of new organic molecules, by various organisms; has a colloidal nature, and therefore strongly absorbent, earthy or fibrous aspect,
2. fig. The substratum of social, spiritual, cultural factors, etc. that promote, favor or condition the arising of situations, facts, manifestations.
Humus is a multi -perspective research space .
Humus is a space of professional cultural and artistic activism.
Humus wants to give rise to different questions and voices (able to find an agrement if necessary).
Humus wants to trigger changes in perspective.
Humus offers tools to generate a sharing space.
Humus is a workshop for future artisans of culture .
Humus gives time to the process .
Humus replaces focus to performance.
Humus is a study of the process between.
Humus studies the body as a refined relational technology .
WHY'
We observe the body as the first map for orienting ourselves in the world. Spending time to get to know this map seems important to us both as citizens and as professionals. The body is first of all movement, of fluids, tissues, forces, materials of various densities connected to each other. We believe in approaching the movement and together with its theoretical awareness and understanding and vice versa. The ongoing dialogue between practice and reflection is the process we wish to support both in terms of cultural, artistic and human activism.
FOR WHO
Dancers, performers, actors who want a non-academic professional training.
Artists from all fields who wish to dedicate a space-time to study and develop their own language.
People called to investigate their own expressive and creative potential.
PEDAGOGY
HUMUS seeks a balance between the time of practice, of making, taking, giving tools and the time of digestion, reflection, and transformation. It proposes a research process that includes emptiness, silence and waiting between. It is in this space that we see the birth of new similarities and differences. Growth.
Summary of the process are the stages of: experience / story of the experience / analysis / denomination / return to experience
This process aims to replace performance with attention, a gaze that is aimed at.
The precision and completeness of observing require even a slow time, in due course rewarded by the fullness of awareness of the steps taken and those that will be taken. Attention as tension to the waiting that it allows to happen in order to remove tension from the pre-established formal production.
The pedagogical intent aims at giving the tools to build or consolidate the work on corporeality as a sophisticated and attentive active presence at 360 °, starting from the movement to arrive at the dramaturgy understood as a research project. Its characteristics of conduct are the critical attitude, the practical exercise, the terminological care.
It is aimed at identifying and incorporating the principles and forces that underlie the layer of form and expressiveness for how it manifests itself and makes itself recognizable. The approach of each discipline is that which requires the body to work in conscious dialogue with the field of forces in which it is inserted, both structural (from inside to outside) and the environment (from outside to inside), to then give space a possible visions poetic and / or creative processes.
We want to offer new horizons and perspectives that can be useful tools for everyone to orient themselves in their professional path and / or personal enrichment.
The specificity of this pedagogical approach lies in the fact that everyone can find their way of being in and with the process and draw the nourishment they need.
Both in the moments of training and in those of broader exploration, the proposal is to cross / alternate and combine phases of active observation, with moments of direct bodily experience; opportunities for verbal sharing and analysis of specific terminology to refine a language that emerges from practice and is able to speak about the body; times to get lost in pure perceptive listening; opportunity to develop and compose independently using the material encountered and the surrounding context.
HUMUS' STRUCTURE
The training is divided into THREE MODULES. It is also possible to participate in a single module. The third module is accessible only to those who have attended at least one of the first two modules.
Module I [October, November, December]
Module II [January, February, March]
EVERY MONTH is divided into:
3 weeks of training [from 09.30 to 15.00]
from Monday to Friday with internal teachers:
Axis Syllabus, Play Fight, Geist Pulse.
1 workshop with guest per month [Saturday and Sunday from 10.00 to 17.00]
Axis Syllabus [Frey Faust, Francesca Pedullà, Baris Mihci];
Play Fight [Bruno Caverna]
Real Time Composition [Claudia Dias]
1 week Emptiness Atelier [Monday-Friday 09.30 to 15.00]
A space to cultivate, question, decompose and recompose.
A space for digestion, integration and re-elaboration of information and experiences.
A space for what is there, to support the processing rather than the static accumulation of information, to realize how the new awareness moves and how they interact with the schemes and structures of reference already present.
In this week self-managed by the group, as teaching staff we will be available as mentors of individual and / or collective processes, both in a direction of revision and in-depth analysis and of composition.
3 Monographs [Fridays from 09.30 to 15.00]
Thematic focus with external teachers, which will take place on Fridays throughout the day, from 09.30 to 15.00 and will be open to the public.
Voice study - 25 hours, 5 meetings [teacher: Valentina Turrini]
Listening and sound theory - 15 hours, 3 meetings [teacher: Enrico Malatesta]
Critical look at the performing arts - 15 hours, 3 meetings [teacher: Altre Velocita]
Form III [April, May]
The third module has as objectives:
deepening of Humus tools & practice artistic creation.
The pedagogical program is divided into:
- In-depth training and consolidationof the founding tools of Humus with internal teachers: Axis Syllabus with Nuvola Vandini, Play-Fight with Ester Braga and Chiara Zompa and Geiste Pulse with Anna Albertarelli.
-international workshopof 4 days with Bruno Caverna, author of the Play-Fight.
- 36 hours of research residency with Ghoatto Project aimed at participatory action Working DanceFloor, which will be staged from 1 to 4 June within ScieFestival.
- two weeks ofEmptiness studiofor the development of an individual project with the support of mentors
(If the works developed by the students/weavers during the Atelier del Void reach their first completion, they can be included in the programming ofScie Festival 2023)
ENROLLMENTS: DIREZIONE.FORMAZIONEHUMUS@GMAIL.COM
87 hours CLASS per month
25 hours a month creation - revision
112 hours per month working in STUDIO
Humus is an independent project that comes from the bottom, from the vision and work of individual professionals united by a desire: to create a training space based on research and exchange. Humus does not have an administrative and bureaucratic system, it is not funded by any institution.
The direct relationship and adaptability in managing different roles are values that we want to convey.
Humus was imagined by Nuvola Vandini, created in collaboration with Anna Albertarelli, Ester Braga, Chiara Zompa. OfficinaAcrobatica is a precious supporter, as well as a home, where dreams become body.
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