The Corpse of mine
A travel from me to the stones,
from the stones to the trees,
from the trees to the sun,
from the sun to me,
from me…to me…nobody…. empty body
This is the pint to reach. To face the Emptiness….
Becoming nobody,
Walking in the empty bodies.
To remain stood up for years, as the trees.
To sit as a stone for over ages.
To breathe like the air,
moving as the wind, as the water, as the sun…
The method:
The workshop is entitled “The corpse of mine”. It s a Butoh based practical research using concentration and movement. Through this course and in order to reach a deeper understanding about different aspects of our existence. we will pass through eastern philosophies such as Tibetan physical meditation, Indian yoga in motion, Persian Sufism and their common borders with contemporary dance, Butoh. All this studies would be in frame of a bigger subject entitled “Meditative dance”.
Every session starts with corporal research through a creative warming up system designed by Mehdi FARAJPOUR under supervision of his indian yoga master MAYA. This is the beginning of an exchange between mind and body, to discover the harmony in movement, in order to distroy it.
The questions we are working on:
- How an external power moves over bodies?
- How to transfer that external power inside our bodies?
- What does rhythm mean in Buoth performances?
- Presenting Cyclic yoga warming up method
- Meditation and tibetan Zen (in movement)
- Rebirth (Using Sufi’s poems)
- Interior rhythm
- Music of the environment
- Dancing on poems
- Balanced and unbalanced body researching on gravity
- Empty bodies
- Rediscovering body as an object
- Living in absolute surrealism
- My body or me ? (What is my body and who am I?)
- Alienation
- Suspending from the sky or from the earth ?
- Moving slowly but not slow motion!
- Dropping body or falling down?
- Experiencing the four seasons and the four elements in body (Waving water, shaking fire, blowing wind and quiet ground)
- Focus points matter in choreography.
- Focus points of body in movement
- Drawing a poem on the space, etc.
The method has been practically presented in the countries below: Poland (Opole, Tczew), South Korea (Hooyong performing Art’s center, Nottle theatre company), Belarus (University of Minsk), Finland (Tampere, Helsinki), Turkey (Trabzon), Iran (Tehran), France (Centre de danse du Marais-Paris, Besançon), Spain (Barcelona, Girona, valencia), Germany (Hofheim)
