08 & 09.09.17
CN D Lyon
The Instrument - Embodying Musicality
A intensive week-end aimed for movers and dancers who wish to engage with dynamic states of instant composition, to experience and explore the theme of sound, rhythm and music through the prism of improvisation and performance. Each session is a continual process, following on from a class in which we tune and awaken our senses, practice handling physicality and directing it from centre to space. Investigating deeper, we work on specifying how we carry our physicality in our dancing; how we elaborate thought, vision and desire within real-time composition.
In Embodying Musicality we work with momentum and pace; engaging time and listening to living and dancing rhythms. Following these elements and the passions they evoke, we look into how we interpret tempo / velocity, how we work in complement with sound and resonance and how we become appreciative of the immediate and joyful interplay of music and dance.
Maya Matilda Carroll is an independent choreographer, dancer and teacher, based in Berlin since 2004. In the past thirteen years Maya has made works from solo to extended group pieces, collaborated with dance, music and visual artists from all over the world, including Muza dance company, Lara Barsacq, the Batsheva Ensemble company directed by Ohad Naharin, Anat Danieli, Sharon Eyal and Arkadi Zaides, Sasha Waltz & Guests, to name a few. She has been creating with performers from diverse backgrounds (classical / contemporary dancers, poets, musicians, actors, opera singers and amateurs) within different continents and cultural impacts. Maya has been making dance independently as well as being commissioned to create pieces for state theaters, independent companies and dance academies. She has been leading classes and workshops in Europe and abroad, extensively developing her teaching methods alongside her artistic work.
In 2011 Maya formed The Instrument with her partner, composer and musician Roy Carroll. She has been increasingly developing pieces reflecting on old and new communities, social roots and myth, pluralities and singularities in humans and environment. Since 2013 she collaborates with choreographer and director Julyen Hamilton. She joined his company Allen`s Line in their last two pieces Goat Ocean and Mud Like Gold.