Introduction Workshop
In his introduction workshop to The Ritual Season, Alexander Gottfarb will share the movement strategies and choreographic tools that form the basis of his performance practice. The practice, which is based upon repetition and transformation, has been developed together with many collaborators over the last years and has functioned as the backbone for Gottfarb’s artistic work in a large number of dance performances. The movement practice is open and accessible to all bodies.
is a Vienna-based dancer and choreographer originally from Sweden. Together with his long-time collaborators, he creates long-durational dance performances, most often placed in spaces that are not theatres. After his education at the Balettakademien in Stockholm, he moved to Austria and first worked as a dancer before founding the association Archipelago together with Anna Maria Nowak in 2008. In 2022, they jointly established the performance space Der Betrieb – an accessible space in Vienna’s 15th district with big windows to the street and a low threshold. Der Betrieb now hosts their long durational dance performances and functions as an experimental venue where the meetings of people and the practice of being together are in focus. Thematically, Gottfarb’s performances investigate notions such as democracy, ritual, and work.
Language: English, German
Limited number of participants
The workshop on 27.02. will be translated into Austrian Sign Language.