17 > 21.06.19
CN D Pantin
Justin Kennedy is a dance artist from St. Croix, Virgin Islands. He studied Dance & Ethnic Studies at Wesleyan University and Choreography at HZT Berlin. He leads workshops about trance dance and science fiction opera and has performed intimately with and for many other artists including Jeremy Shaw and Adam Linder. He facilitates the annual lab, ‘Alive ... & then Some’ with Emma Howes in an opera house in Porto.
Tino Sehgal was trained as a dancer at Folkwang Hochschule, Essen and as a political economist at Technical University, Berlin. His choreographic work has been presented internationally, mostly in exhibitions. Justin Kennedy and Tino Sehgal have been working together since 2012, when Justin was a dancer in Tino’s seminal work, This Variation, which is set in a dark space that is energetically charged by singing and dancing bodies.
Merging the practices of Justin Kennedy and Tino Sehgal, this workshop proposes to work on connectivities between choreography, constructing situations, meditation and trance dance. Each session will explore the interrelation of movement and singing with meditational practices. An ongoing practice will unfold and grow over the course of the week, comprising new and existing elements of their respective work as well as other method- ologies like dynamic meditation, headbanging and perhaps hypnosis.