Dancing the Political
Würzburg

Trailer #1

Location

Tanzraum - studio link here

Introduction and what will we actually do?

The story, pain, and trauma we contain in our body are not just our own: it is heavily influenced by social and political issues in the world, by our family history, and by our roots.

We will embody and improvise on social and political issues we care about through tools I used in my dance creation process in the last years that helped me create my dance creations - specifically tools from my solo “Ethneen Shtaieem” and duet “Divide and Conquer”.

Example exercise Each participant will take a personal story that touches them deeply and is connected to their community or society. Then you will embody the collective of your group, and then you will embody the "enemy", and then we will play with embodying both at the same time (for your issues we might use different words - "enemy" might not work for you).

For example Saed (A Palestinian with Israeli citizenship - 20% minority) - I will embody the Palestinian collective, then I will embody the Israeli Soldier, then I will live both in my body at the same time. The result is unexplainable until you live it.

How did this start?

The beginning of this research came from Saed's solo "Etheen Shtaieem". But this workshop, as a process, started in Geneva with Saed and Héloïse Dell'Ava as a week-long process of solo creation of political and social significance.

Pricing
Normal pricing: 95 euros
Lower-tier-pricing: 75 euros (Bachelor students full time, unemployed, other) - I trust you - decide if this is where you are.
Pricing is an issue for you at the moment? write me an email to saed.mansour.movement@gmail.com and we will figure it out)

Important!!! SIGN UP QUICK!
I need 6 people to sign up by Tuesday morning July 1st so I know if to fly out Tuesday night or stay until a day or two after the workshop. I know this is a big ask and a spontaneous workshop, but as many of you know I’m here in Germany because of the situation back home got me “stuck” here for a bit longer than expected and I need to see if we have enough people. Sorry about this!

Signing up
Sign up by payment (details below) and then email me at saed.mansour.movement@gmail.com.
Fill the workshop form
After signing up you need to fill this form (click link here) before coming to the workshop (critical to fill it until day before evening time!)

BANK transfer
Account holder: Said Mansour
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IBAN: BE07 9672 5887 3966
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Brussels
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Belgium

How do I choose a story/issue/conflict to work with?

You can choose a collective issue that is of personal connection to you: from your roots, ethnicity, race, or country. You can also choose a collective issue from another collective with a lot of sensitivity of how that other collective will feel towards you doing that. For example: a white person doing an act about Afrodescendant heritage needs to come with a great deal of awareness. In this space, we don’t want to over-provoke other people’s deep wounds - even though we believe in the act of provocation through art but in this particular space, we do want to be very sensitive towards the group that will work.

Trailer (Geneva June 2023 Performance)

Creating a performance isn’t what we will do in this workshop - but it’s great to show what the process can lead to if it was for both one week with a performance and internal process goal - it’s also an offer I do but not in this one! Trailer from Geneva June 2023 end of creation process performance edition with Héloïse Dell'Ava Luna

Videography and editing by Raphaël Harari

Trailer from November 2022 Geneva Video (process and performance)

Videography and editing - Matteo Maringola & Carolina Maldarelli