BODY WEATHER NAARM
Body Weather is a physical training and philosophy beneficial for all kinds of performers, and anyone looking to strengthen and tune their bodies and expand physical range and qualities of movement. Body Weather was founded in the 1980s in Japan by Min Tanaka and further developed by proponents worldwide.
This 4-week training series taking place on unceded Wurundjeri land during Iuk season, will emphasise focus, fitness and embodied play. Open to experienced and new Body Weather practitioners, Gretel Taylor will introduce MB (Mind/Body or Muscle/Bone), a conditioning work-out, as well as processes for improvisation, considering our bodies’ interrelationships as ecologies.
4 week block: From 5 March 2024 (led by Gretel Taylor)
Day
Tuesdays
Time
6pm—8pm
Cost
$90 Full
$80 Concession
For block of 4 sessions.
Casual drop ins welcome if you have done Body Weather before. $25 per session
Accessibility
Classes are located in Upstairs Studio and are only accessible via two flights of stairs.
Please contact Gretel to discuss your other accessibility needs.
Wear comfortable, layered clothing and bare feet or runners.
Basic fitness recommended but a range of levels is accommodated by the class format.
Upcoming series:
6 week block: From 16 April 2024 (led alternately by Gretel Taylor and Frank van de Ven)
5 week block: From 28 May 2024 (led alternately by Gretel Taylor and Frank van de Ven)'
Gretel Taylor trained at the Body Weather Farm in Japan in 1999 and 2000, which informed her performance, teaching and research (as BodyPlaceProject). She has performed site-responsive works in many odd places, locally and internationally. Gretel developed an improvisational ‘locating’ practice as a mode of relating to place during her PhD (2009) and as an ongoing inquiry, with particular interest in ecological and decolonial lenses on site-based performance. She has taught Dance and Performance at Deakin, RMIT, Monash and Victoria University, as well as regularly at Dancehouse. www.greteltaylor.com
Frank van de Ven was a member of Body Weather founder Min Tanaka’s Maijuku Performance Company in Japan from 1983-1991. With Katerina Bakatsaki he founded Body Weather Amsterdam, a platform for training and performance. He has an ongoing commitment to the Body/Landscape projects conducted worldwide and since 1995 he has led the annual, interdisciplinary Bohemiae Rosa Project (Czech Republic) with Milos Sejn, connecting body and landscape with art, geology and architecture. bodyweatheramsterdam.nl