Mapping The Divide - Summer Art and Dance Camp
Uillin: West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen
Tue 16 Jul 2019 - Sat 27 Jul 2019 (note: this event has already taken place)
10am
€50
Mapping the Divide
With Mairéad Vaughan and Tomasz Madajczak
Eight day Summer Art and Dance Camp 16 to 19 and 23 to 27 July, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm each day
BOOKING fee €50
Outdoor Performance Saturday 27 July, 1:00pm. FREE
At Uillinn and outdoors
For children aged 9 to 12 years (10 places), booking and payment essential to secure place on 02822090 or info@westcorkartscentre.com
Mapping the Divide is a creative exploration into the effects of technology on our body, mind and environment. Children are invited to take part in a dance summer camp. Students will be invited to journey into the body and out to the landscape, to bring awareness of the direct sensory and kinaesthetic relationship we have with our environment. Using gathered materials chosen from the landscape, they will explore textures, patterns, smells, sights and sounds. Then movements will be choreographed from this investigation to create a site-specific, pop-up performance for Skibbereen Arts Festival.
'Attuning' facilitated by Mairead
'Attuning' facilitates a range of developmental movement practices
that re-organise our nervous system bringing right and left brain
activity into balance. This carefully designed movement series
enhances sensory-motor activity
(sensory awareness), proprioception (kinaesthetic/spatial awareness), cognition (focus, memory, clear thinking) while cultivating energy and opening to creativity.
Art explorations facilitated by Tomasz Madajczak
Through intuitive interactions with the space of the art centre and
its surroundings, Tomasz will explore the idea of ephemeralness,
unity, simultaneity, fragmentation and re-creation. The group will be
invited to create tactile relationship with the surrounding
environment in the form of site-specific installations and ephemeral
experiences using simple art materials, found objects, thread and thin plastic. The aim of the workshop is to create a sense of familiarity, safety and openness to creative processes while challenging ideas.
Outdoor journeying - 'Attuning' to site
Sensory mapping through movement (developing sensory awareness), finding/collecting outdoor materials/objects (developing tactile response), interacting with each other and environment through sculpting, balancing (developing proprioception) and building daily performance responses.
Creation of choreographic work
"Mapping the Divide" aims to re-address the impact of technology on our body-mind and environment, through movement, art, creativity and expression. A creative space allows for experimentation out of which we will choreograph a performed response to site.
