13 | 14 | 15 april
13, friday | 6pm-8pm
14, saturday | 9.30am-12.30am; 2.30pm-5.30pm
15, sunday | 9.30am-12.30am
CAPa centro de artes performativas do algarve - Faro
price €80
( 20% discount on the workshop registration fee for anyone interested in participating in the informal performance project ALMOST SOMA ARE WE - the body as living poetry )
fractal manifest an introduction to Axis Syllabus
In this workshop, aimed at the general public, with or without experience of movement practices, participants will have the opportunity to access information about Axis Syllabus, by the creator / inventor of this vocabulary, which is based on the harmonization of the alignment of the whole body.
The AS is a compendium of information about the human body in motion, from various resources such as anatomy, biomechanics, medicine, psychology, social ethics, philosophy and the arts.
Frey Faust felt there was a need to find a way to bridge the information from these relevant sciences to various practices and disciplines, concerned with preparing or training the body.
The AS is a practical and easy to understand diagnostic tool, which helps those who use it to move better with less injury, suggesting a preventative approach to building skill, strength and flexibility, a potential plus for all human activity. The AS lists and compares current knowledge of past and present methods and scientific information, and could therefore support an inclusive, embracing spirit, towards the range of human activity.
In an Axis Syllabus class or workshop, the information becomes meaningful through countless approaches to physical inquiry and integration. The intention is to understand and collaborate with the human structure inherited through thousands of years of evolution.
Understanding and respecting the properties of the body's structure,
we can evaluate our choices for efficiency and functionality.
The information is often passed on through dance, though it is relevant to anyone in a body. As such, Axis Syllabus classes can also be adapted to walkings, movement for elders, kids classes, aerial disciplines, horse-riding, contact improvisation, capoeira, and countless other disciplines. Practitioners have created hybrid workshops, bringing insights from the Axis Syllabus into dialogue with Feldenkrais®, Body-Mind Centering®, Somatic Experiencing®, Anatomy Trains®, cranio-sacral therapy, and many more.
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INFORMAL PERFORMANCE PROJECT
ALMOST SOMA ARE WE – the body as living poetry
This project is the result of the work developed by the workshop participants. It will be an opportunity to bring into the public space,
to share with the passers-by, the result of a set of experiences of movement, experienced by the participants during the workshop. Frey Faust will direct a tour through some of Faro's streets, starting in CAPa, similar to the site specific "dancing the city #Faro", developed by the choreographer Cosmin Manolescu, included in the program of this festival’s last edition, a very rewarding experience for the participants, and an impact event for the city's public.
rehearsals 14th and 15th april |saturday 6pm-7pm | sunday 2pm-4pm
presentation / performance sunday 4.30pm
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INFORMATIONS
to bring: confortable and warm clothing
adressed to: anyone interested in movement, with or without
experience in dance
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DeVIR/CAPa - Centro de Artes Performativas do Algarve
​Frei Lourenço de Sta Maria 4, 8000-352 Faro
tel./fax 00351 289 828 784
telm. 00351 91 870 3414/15
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registrations:
with name, age, phone and email
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ABOUT
Frey Faust
Born in 1960, Frey Faust began performing at the age of 8 with his family as a traveling troubadour. He is a second generation contact improviser and an alumnus of the 80´s New York dance scene. Some of his more important early influences came from: Shekhinah Mountainwater, Nita Little, Pavel Rouba, Rene Bazinet, and Janet Panetta. He has worked with and for a number of artists (order of appearance: Ohad Naharin, Donald Byrd, David Parsons, Gina Buntz, Howard Katz, Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Randy Warshaw, Bob Een, Stephen Petronio, Danny Ezralow... to name a few).
He founded or co-founded three dance companies, and has created or co-created over 40 choreographic solo and group works. Following an independent study of anatomy, biomechanics, and physics, he has been able to build a pedagogical approach that has made him a sought after teacher, personal coach and technical counselor. After fifteen years of research, he consolidated his findings in a book, 'The Axis Syllabus - human movement lexicon', which he continues to edit with the help of the Axis Syllabus International Research Community. Founded in 2009, the ASIRC is a rapidly expanding group of experts from many related fields in the human movement and education sciences. Recently, his work on the AS has been focused into the construction of a symbol set with the potential to streamline movement documentation and analysis