MIMBOOST-Göteborg

OM JOSEPHINE GRAY Artistic director of ibodies. The impetus for the work of ibodies is based on the fundamental insight that theatre – as an arena in which performance takes place demands a unique and radical language that is useless and in the disservice of any agenda other than its own primacy as a form of language. As such, the poetics of awareness is an absolute given in their continued search for a radical scenic language. She is a graduate of LÉcole Internationale de Théâtre de Jacques Lecoq and holds a Bachelor and Masters Degree in Philosophy from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a Masters Degree in English from the University of Sheffield. In 2022 the volume Second Nature: Comic Performance and Philosophy she co- edited with Lisa Trahair was published by Rowman and Littlefield International, London, UK. www.i-bodies.com ABOUT THE WORKSHOP The Witness The presence of the performer as an act of witnessing Focus will be placed upon the act of witnessing. Expanding the notion of the “puppet” the performers will be given the opportunity to explore what this means with regards to physical, mental and spiritual exercises. These exercises will in turn lead to the awareness of what the possibilities inherent in the body are–its shadows and gestures. The blocks we carry hinder us from fully diving into the depths of our own abyss. Those blocks might have arrived from years of previous training in various physical practices or simply by the judgments we make each day about others and ourselves. Refocusing the attention back towards the experience of our our bodies its secrets might emerge as hidden movements, gestures or characters that carry with them countless years of history. Please wear clothes in one uniform color (top + trousers) without any prints