CREATING TRANSFORMATIVE ENCOUNTERS 2024

May 1 to 8, 2024 (Copenhagen, Denmark) Applications deadline 15/4/2024 (or until the workshop is filled up - maximum 12 participants)

September 27 to October 4, 2024 (Bad Kreuznach, Germany) Applications deadline 12/9/24 (or until the workshop is filled up - maximum 12 participants)

The focus of TanTou’s performances is the creation of transformative encounters.

In the process of creating our work, we play with the mechanisms and the patterns of human interaction as well as on the language of emotional, rational and sensual responses.

We facilitate interactions where performers and visitors alike can be receptive and responsive to each other, creating a non-fictional universe based on authenticity.

In our performances, every single member of the audience undertakes their own journey, a very personal experience, different from anybody else’s.

During the workshop, every participant will create their own short Human Specific performance, with the support of our teachers. These performances will then be presented for an invited audience at the end of the workshop.

Creating Transformative Encounters is a series of workshops in Participatory and Human Specific Performance open to English-speaking participants from all countries. The workshop is addressed to artists and students within performance, acting, dance, music, visual arts, theatre production, and can very well be used in the process of developing new artistic material. Also therapists, teachers, and others with an interest in close encounters between people, can benefit from this work.

We will explore interactivity, participation and artistic honesty in different settings and create performative, interactive games and rituals between participating audience and performers.

Working individually, in pairs or in small groups, the participants will research an artistic language that speaks directly to the senses and replaces fiction with true here and now presence.

We will investigate many different forms of sincere and non-fictive communication which can activate strong emotional and sensorial responses. The boundaries of artistic intimacy between strangers will be challenged, evoking authentic, receptive and trusting modalities of participation.

Some of the specific themes and exercises will therefore be connected with:

• The creation of a sensorial universe.

• Devising and guiding sensorial experiences.

• The creation of a true personal connection, within a set frame of a performative universe.

• Exploring borders of emotional and intellectual interaction.

• Using non-traditional spaces for framing experiences with journey-like structures.

• Development of personal, biographical material outside of the typical storytelling frames.

• Development of different forms of open dramaturgies and labyrinth-like performance structures.

• Creation of small interactive group dramaturgies.

• Risk taking: the performer in the double role as both
  guide and protagonist.

• Physical interaction with a participating audience.

• Creating a non-invasive environment for physical communication.

The teachers/tutors:
Nullo Facchini, Sara Vilardo, Soufia Bensaid with other special guests (read more about the teachers/tutors HERE)

If you would like to participate, please write a motivated application including your CV and send it to: info@tantou.dk

Payment

Once your admission to the workshop is confirmed, you will receive your payment information.

For more information and to send your application, please send an e-mail to: info@tantou.dk

The price for the entire workshop is between 600 and 1200 € (depending on the location), including full accommodation for 7 nights.

The Tunisia 2024 workshop only costs 690 € plus accommodation, (see the pdf link):

READ THE DETAILED PROGRAM (PDF) OF “CREATING TRANSFORMATIVE ENCOUNTERS” BY CLICKING HERE: