Choreographing the City Masterclass with Alisa Oleva
This movement walkshop is inviting you to explore the politics of movement in public spaces and experience how the city moves us and how we move it.
We will work with urban choreographies and psychogeographical scores through soft parkour techniques and mapping tools. What are the desired lines we draw as we walk the city? What would alternative maps of the city look like if we made them with our bodies? What are the textures we encounter on our daily walks? This workshop will allow us to focus and explore through touch and movement the surfaces, routes, imprints, traces and desires we find and seek in cities.
Alisa Oleva holds a BA and MA from The Courtauld Institute of Art and an MA in Performance from Goldsmiths. She is based in London. Alisa Oleva treats the city as her studio and urban life as material, considering issues of urban choreography and urban archeology, traces and surfaces, borders and inventories, intervals and silences, passages and cracks. Her projects have manifested as a series of interactive situations, performances, movements scores, personal and intimate encounters, parkour, walkshops, and audio walks.
Hosted by Groupwork
Dates: 24th June 2023
Time: 1-5pm
Fee: £50
£80 – Multi masterclass package for two classes
Email your questions to lou@theatrum-mundi.org
BOOK
As part of the course, you will receive three publications part of our Choreographing the City collection: Encounters, Embodying Otherness and Navigations.