‘As Above So Below’ from Jasper Grieppink
Project space Roodkapje Rotterdam
Concept & Curated by: Jasper Griepink.
I participated in his concept.
Project space Roodkapje Rotterdam
Concept & Curated by: Jasper Griepink.
I participated in his concept.
As Above So Below was a Butoh Dance & Alexander Technique Workshop by choreographer Luigia Riva & Jasper Griepink.
'Butoh' is a form of Japanese dance theatre that encompasses a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations for dance, performance or movement. Its founders, Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazu, felt that the Japanese dance scene was overly based on imitating the West and following traditional styles. They sought to turn away from that by creating a new aesthetic that embraced the "squat, earthbound physique... and the natural movements of the common folk." The form was built on a vocabulary of "crude physical gestures and uncouth habits... a direct assault on the refinement and understatement so valued in Japanese aesthetics. Here is an amazing documentary to watch.
Alexander Technique is a methodology that teaches people how to stop using unnecessary levels of muscular and mental tension during everyday activities, it is truly is an educational process rather than a relaxation technique or form of exercise. We were pleased to have Luigia Riva, an accomplished choreographer from Paris and leading figure in the Alexander Technique over to teach us. During the day a dance-workshop took place with 8 participants, in the evening we did a live expresion of our experience. Thank you; Luigia Riva, Mezhgan Saleh, Heleen van Gigch, Titus Nouwens, Marloes Elbertse, Yelena Myshko and Robin Kolleman.
After the dance workshop Yelena Myshko & Jasper Griepink guided a Sacred Genital Alignment workshop inside the sweatldoge. Six participants joined on friday and saturday to explore the presence and transference of sexual energy inside and outside of the body using taoist techniques on breath work and the body. In the end we spend a stretch of time in silence to lay a mandala across the gallery floors.
As Above So Below was Ceremony IV of SWEAT.
Concept & Curated by: Jasper Griepink.
Geodome, Textiles, Temple-wear: The Indigenous People of the Netherlands (Janneke Raaphorst & Jasper Griepink).
Camera: Margarita Kouvatsou.
Supported by project space Roodkapje Rotterdam, O&O Subsidy by CBK Rotterdam, Materiaalfonds.
Watch the performance VIDEO with this link: https://vimeo.com/109279728
'Butoh' is a form of Japanese dance theatre that encompasses a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations for dance, performance or movement. Its founders, Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazu, felt that the Japanese dance scene was overly based on imitating the West and following traditional styles. They sought to turn away from that by creating a new aesthetic that embraced the "squat, earthbound physique... and the natural movements of the common folk." The form was built on a vocabulary of "crude physical gestures and uncouth habits... a direct assault on the refinement and understatement so valued in Japanese aesthetics. Here is an amazing documentary to watch.
Alexander Technique is a methodology that teaches people how to stop using unnecessary levels of muscular and mental tension during everyday activities, it is truly is an educational process rather than a relaxation technique or form of exercise. We were pleased to have Luigia Riva, an accomplished choreographer from Paris and leading figure in the Alexander Technique over to teach us. During the day a dance-workshop took place with 8 participants, in the evening we did a live expresion of our experience. Thank you; Luigia Riva, Mezhgan Saleh, Heleen van Gigch, Titus Nouwens, Marloes Elbertse, Yelena Myshko and Robin Kolleman.
After the dance workshop Yelena Myshko & Jasper Griepink guided a Sacred Genital Alignment workshop inside the sweatldoge. Six participants joined on friday and saturday to explore the presence and transference of sexual energy inside and outside of the body using taoist techniques on breath work and the body. In the end we spend a stretch of time in silence to lay a mandala across the gallery floors.
As Above So Below was Ceremony IV of SWEAT.
Concept & Curated by: Jasper Griepink.
Geodome, Textiles, Temple-wear: The Indigenous People of the Netherlands (Janneke Raaphorst & Jasper Griepink).
Camera: Margarita Kouvatsou.
Supported by project space Roodkapje Rotterdam, O&O Subsidy by CBK Rotterdam, Materiaalfonds.
Watch the performance VIDEO with this link: https://vimeo.com/109279728