Guillermo Weickert at Choreoroam Europe

[Costa Contemporánea]

29th and 30th November: Guillermo Weickert's Workshop at Choreoroam Europe

CONTEXT:  How do we approach, in just a few workshop sessions, a concept that is so broad and full of nuances, and at the same time, of such vital importance for our work?

For our encounter in Madrid I propose simply to share a common focus for our gaze and offer a space to work and reflect together.

I do not feel that I have anything concrete to say, nor revealing information to pass on to you.  I do, however, have enormous curiosity regarding everything that we can rethink together and share about this idea, to “reside” for these two days within the idea of “context”, define different meanings and senses, as individuals and as a group. Different ways of analyzing the way contexts affect or condition our creative processes. To design strategies that can help us detect possible difficulties and find ways of transforming them into assets.

I would like to propose lines of work that originate in the body and in work on the stage, and find others that are genuine and originate within the group itself; to visit and study cases or situations in which choreographic or dance initiatives have had an impact on and transformed contexts that seemed initially hostile. 

I would like the results of our two days of coming together and reflecting to bring some kind of new consciousness to our personal practice, to revisit our own experiences, not in order to acquire new knowledge but rather to sum up and structure in a useful way the resources and capacities of adaptation to our environment that we already possess and have undoubtedly applied in an intuitive manner; to make them visible and readily accessible to us for use in our future work.

Guillermo Weickert