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Aug 3, 20:00 | Hopeful Monsters | workshop + artist talk with Katya Kaliuzhnaia

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* organized and curated by Alena Papina, dance artist & Spectrum Studio founder & owner
📍newly opened Spectrum studio (get-in details)
Ilia Chavchavadze st, 75/9, Tbilisi, Georgia 0101 (Vake)
👾 come meet your hopeful monster 👹
MONDAY / AUGUST 3 / 20:00 - 23:00:
💃 open level / participation is possible in each event separately or combined

1️⃣ Hopeful Monsters - an improvisation workshop by Katya Kaliuzhnaia dedicated to the movements we usually don't allow ourselves to make. The expressive potential of "wrong" movement, embracing the body beyond perfection, cultivating the strange, the awkward, and the alive, discovering the expressive power of your "monstrous" body.

👾 What will you discover when you let your monster move? 👹

This is something Katya has been recently working on as a researcher at Choreography and Performance (CuP) program at JLU Giessen (Giessen, Germany).
🕐 1,5 h / 20:00 - 21:30 / 💰 40 GEL *

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👯‍♀️ up to 6 people for movement class
secure your spot & register at the end of the page ⤵️
2️⃣ Artist talk + Q&A with Katya Kaliuzhnaia
A chance to talk with Katya about her life in Germany, her studies, struggles as an immigrant & artist-in-exile, her artistic interests and current research, introduce yourself & ask any question coming to your mind. The talk is guided & facilitated by Alena Papina, a friend, colleague & fellow dance artist, the founder of Spectrum Studio.
Available both in-person in Spectrum studio & online
🕐 22:00 - 23:00 / GMT+4 (Tbilisi time zone)
👯‍♀️ in person - up to 20 people / 📹 live translation - unlimited / recording - per request
💰 donation based to support Spectrum studio development
Come join us offline in Spectrum with tea and snacks / or glimpse in and send your questions via live recording
fill-in the form to connect to Katya's talk & get the meeting record ⤵️
MORE ABOUT MONSTERS / KATYA'S ARTIST STATEMENT:

" Every body holds movements that rarely get the chance to emerge - especially in front of others. Too strange. Too abrupt. Too quiet. Not virtuosic enough. Not fluid enough. Not technical enough. Not beautiful enough.

In this workshop, we will make space for exactly those movements.

We will improvise, cultivate our “mistakes,” and take our expressivity - and our own monstrosity - out for a walk.

I am interested in the body not as an object to perfect, but as a source of the unexpected and the expressive. Sometimes what seems wrong or improper turns out to be the most alive, the most compelling, and the most inspiring.

The workshop is open to everyone, regardless of previous experience".

MORE ABOUT 🧞‍♀️Katya Kaliuzhnaia (@katya.kaliuzhnaia)
Dance artist & somatic practitioner, exploring voice and movement. Based in Germany, currently completing her Master’s degree in Choreography and Performance (CuP) at JLU Giessen.
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She approaches choreography as a way of organising relations between bodies,

people and social imaginaries. Her work explores somatic practices, dance,

improvisation, the interaction of movement, voice and space.

Her artistic practice focuses on reconnecting with bodily memory, nature and

traditional culture as a means of processing the contemporary eco-social crisis. She

works across performance, research and collaborative artistic formats.

She has performed internationally, including in Germany (Dock 11, No fears gallery,

Frankfurt LAB, Landungsbrücken), France (Le Doc en Scène), Switzerland (Antigel

Festival), the Netherlands (Kaapstad Festival), as well as in various venues in

Russia.

In addition to her performance work, she develops interdisciplinary projects

combining choreography, voice and research. Her project Voice of the River, created

in collaboration with Outi Rossi and Max Sergeev, was broadcast by YLE (Finland).

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This event is a part of Dance Is a Spectrum project, created and curated by Alena Papina