Through the Back documents various launches of Jeroen Peeters’ book Through the Back: Situating Vision between Moving Bodies. Several guests introduced the book and engaged in conversation with the author.

May 10, 2014 at Kaaistudio’s Brussels. With Chrysa Parkinson and Gerald Siegmund.
July 22, 2014 at ImPulsTanz Vienna. With Philipp Gehmacher and Jennifer Lacey.
Oct. 20, 2014 at Oktoberdans Bergen. With André Eiermann and Mette Edvardsen.
Nov. 2, 2014 at HZT and Tanzfabrik Berlin. With Martin Nachbar and Stefanie Wenner.

Critical Endeavour 2009

Critical Endeavour 2009 was held within the frame of the Working Title Festival #3 in Brussels (December 2-13, 2009) in cooperation with the Vlaams Theater Instituut (VTi). The art critics Anna Tilroe and Pieter T’Jonck mentored a group of aspiring writers.

Voice Lab 2

Curated by Myriam Van Imschoot, Nov 4 - Dec 5, 2012

Linked to her artistic interest in voice and performance, Myriam Van Imschoot constructed a second Voice Lab as an open platform for exchange and encounter, for training, creation and presentation. The program consisted of a workshop, lab and presentation evening Soirée Parole. All modules worked with the dispositive of Handmade Radio and approached various forms of ensemble singing.

Production: Sarma@WorkSpaceBrussels Concept: Myriam Van Imschoot In collaboration with: Anne-Laure Pigache, Alessandro Bosetti, Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias
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Talking ahead of one’s thoughts

A workshop with Sarah Vanhee, October 15-19, 2013

In an attempt to grasp different layers of the ‘here and now’ in language, Sarah Vanhee developed a performance practice she calls ‘talking ahead of one’s thoughts’. The piece ‘Turning Turning (a choreography of thoughts)’ is based on that practice.

In the workshop the ‘technique was be used as the basis for a daily ‘training’ with the participants – working with each one’s different personal structure, language apparatus, physicality and thinking.

Production: Sarma @ WorkSpaceBrussels
Concept: Sarah Vanhee
Participants: Rosie Heinrich, Gabriel Schenker, Andreea David, Mariana Santos,Sara Manente, Benjamin Van De Walle, Berno Odo Polzer, Joris Lacoste, Myriam Van Imschoot.

Documentation with an essay by Joe Kelleher and materials on ‘Turning Turning (a choreography of thoughts’.

Practising Dilettantism

A workshop with Jennifer Lacey, followed by a lab with Jack Hauser, Satu Herrala, Sabina Holzer and Jeroen Peeters, June 18-29, 2012.
Production: Sarma @ WorkSpaceBrussels

On the page Practising Dilettantism (workshop), various aspects of Jennifer Lacey’s workshop Playing Dilettant Dramaturge, or What Criteria for What Purpose? are documented. These include scores for practices inspired by Authentic Movement and dramaturgy, as well as a proposal for scoring the rehearsal process. This cluster also included the salon Practising Dilettantism.

Popela’s Paralipomena

A lab around scores, experimental writing and collective discursive practices.
November 10-18, 2011
Production: Sarma @ WorkSpaceBrussels

Concept: Jeroen Peeters
Participants: Shila Anaraki, Julien Bruneau, Mette Edvardsen, Jack Hauser, Leslie Mannès, Jeroen Peeters, Manon Santkin, Sarah Vanhee, Myriam Van Imschoot

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Research and forms of collective dramaturgy are of central interest in Sarma’s collaboration with WorkSpaceBrussels. The laboratory Popela’s Paralipomena assembles a diverse group of artists and researchers for reflection and exchange around scores, experimental writing and collective discursive practices.

In dance and choreography meaning is understood as embodied in specific practices – form does matter. It doesn’t come as a surprise then that many artists in the field of dance and performance not only look into the underpinnings of the discourses surrounding their work, but that alternative discursive practices and experimental writing have become the very core of their work. By connecting with the principles of Oulipo, the “workplace for potential literature” that saw a creative challenge in constraints, current questions appear in a different light. Can the playful formalism of experimental writing provide a critical view upon the rapid and superficial consumption of knowledge in our information society? What can the approach of scores as obstacles or sites for negotiation mean for artistic research and creation?

More: A word dictionary by all the participants and Popela’s Escape by Jack Hauser