CODA workshop med Meagan O’Shea
Workshop description:
Meagan leads participants through an Interdisciplinary Solo Making practice using her own Oblique/Switch methodology and contemporary performance making strategies through improvisation. In this workshop dancers work with a core idea or seed, make a mind map and explore individually together.
Meagan O’Shea is one of the creator/performers of XwomXnseX STEAM: a participatory sauna ritual as part of the CODA-festival. The project was created as a continuation to the stage show XwomXnseX which brought the collaborators’ solos together into a bigger work.
In the workshop Meagan leads an improvisation workshop with her dance-theatre mash-up practice, “Oblique/Switch” which follows the process of how she creates solo work based on personal experience. Which is how XwomXnseX stage version was created and from that came XwomXnseX: STEAM.
Meagan has created 9 solo shows, using her signature dance-theatre mash-up which draws on her training in contemporary dance, choreography, site-responsive creation, devised theatre, storytelling, clown and comedy. To this she adds DIY Spectacle and through improvisation generates material through her Oblique/Switch methodology. Interested in the third impulse, the oblique response to a provocation – not the obvious, or the opposite, but maybe something beside the opposite, in order to discover a new perspective, challenging dominant paradigms and offering an alternative to the binary.
Read more about Meagan here.
XwomXnseX STEAM, på CODA-festivalen:
16 og 17 oktober, Oslo Badstuforening, Sukkerbiten
Et kvinnelig kunstnerkollektiv inviterer til et guidet, intimt badstue-rituale for kvinner i alle aldre under årets CODA-festival.
Bak initiativet står et kunstnerkollektiv bestående av kanadiske dansekunstner Meagan O’Shea og søstrene Liv Hanne og Anne Katrine Haugen, grunnleggere av Haugen Produksjoner i Tromsø. Haugen produksjoner skaper forestillinger som kombinerer dokumentar og fiksjon, og har som mål å bringe hverdagen inn i teatret – og teatret inn i hverdagen.
Hovedarrangør for workshopen er CODA Oslo International Dance Festival.
PRODA er medarrangør.
