September 14 - 18

Javier Murugarren

Liquid Bodies

Liquid Bodies is a somatic practice that explores the symbolic dimension between dance, space and ritual manifestation; it promotes the development of self-awareness, collective care and connections through movement and touch.

The laboratory explores the body’s capacity to create sacred aural spaces that enable physical suspense throughout intuitive perception, the advantages of imprecision, atmospheres, visions and processes of transformation. LB attempts to reach places where the material, the spiritual, the experienced, the remembered and the imagined constantly merge and manifest.

The practice favors the naturalization of the relationship between the body that moves and the body that can narrate and sing, it delves into the scope of bodily ingenuity through principles of visual perception and interdisciplinary translation methodologies.

The training prior to the research sessions consists of pleasant stretching, gentle manipulations, intuitive movements, and vocal exercises, which will help us immerse ourselves in the living dimensions of language, instinctive singing, and eloquent embodiment. Participants will find ways to give rise to authentic and versatile experiences, reaping a new creative freedom.

This laboratory is aimed at people interested in research and creative processes around the somatic, visuals & performing arts. No previous experience is necessary to participate, just an openness to the simple exercises and the democratic potential of individual manifestation.

Javier Murugarren's biography

Javier Murugarren / Hobelasai (Basque country / The Netherlands) received a bachelor degree in Dance and Choreography in 2008 at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) and was a research student at Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI) in 2010/11. His work is based on choreographic experimentation, bringing movement together with textiles, sound and language. His practice is strongly rooted in the “reuse” of materials and ideas; the reinterpretation of old items, waste and concepts. His work has been shown in the Netherlands and abroad in venues such as: Royal Palace, Tropenmuseum, Stedelijk museum, Melkweg and Frascati theatre (Netherlands), Saatchi Gallery and V&A Museum (London), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Acacia evenings, (Biron Bay in Australia), Kaleidoscope (Kuala Lumpur), Ansan (Seoul), Casa Encendida (Madrid), Idans (Istanbul) and Ozora (Hungary) among many others. Other remarkable collaborative works have been made with Ibrahim Quraishi (Berlin/NY), Rui Xu (England/China), Hands (Malaysia), Trust company (South Korea), Duda Paiva, Maas Podium, Anne Rosa de Carvalho and Meekers, (Holland). He is a founding member of Instant collective (2006), an Amsterdam based improvisation group. He founded and curates studio ReMo: a performance research centre in the north of Amsterdam. He is an Amnesty International activist.

Discounts*

By reserving in one time 2 or more workshops for the same participant you can get the following discounts:

  • 2 workshops
    10%
  • 3 workshops
    15%
  • 4 or more workshops
    20%
  • 2 same week workshops
    15%

*Discounts only apply for one week or two week workshops. Discounts do not apply for intensive workshops (4 or more weeks).