Description du stage

I name as "still" that time and place of arrival, where for a moment my otherwise constant need for change vanishes. This moment can be shared with my partner(s), whether it manifests as stillness or in motion. 

How long does this moment of arrival last? How do we recognise it? Can my partner(s) and I agree on it, as it occurs? How does this place dissolve, and into what? What traces does it leave behind? How are this processes perceived from the outside? Where is "outside"?

In a search for "still-ness", I’ve been answering and finding new questions like the ones above, since 2013. 

Through performing, teaching and collaborations, the focus of "still" is researching the processes that unravel in an improvisation performance with at least two protagonists, dancers or other, with or without an audience. I propose, that a useful body is (am) a body that can save itself (myself), even when moving faster than conscious thought. To improve this skill, each day will also include a training, where we’ll work simultaneously on strength and elasticity, sensitivity and explosiveness. You’ll work on improving our personal capacities, whatever they are; moving towards building trust with your-self(-body). To then be able to trust and relax into the processes of the present moment.

Jurij KONJAR  

Jurij Konjar is a slovenian dancer, improviser, choreographer and producer. He studied at PARTS in Brussels and later with Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson, amongst others. He restaged several of Paxton's works and still tours the Goldberg Variations improvised solo.

He performs improvised performances and his own work internationally. His own performances include the Goldberg Variations, Ulysses, Still, For Juliano Mer-Khamis, Monday at Eight (co-directed), Poka (co-directed) and Biodegradables. 

He teaches dance internationally, including the elements of his performance of improvisation pratice, Tuning Scores, Material for the spine and contact improvisation. Writing about dance is a regular practice. 

Jurij is a part of the worldwide contact improvisation community and is a creator of the shared, nomadic working space called Habitat. 

More current news on www.jurijkonjar.com/calendar