Their aim is to  go through experience of creating art by putting things in test, learning and verifying them through trials, than accumulating knowledge  through direct participation and observation. The word’s core  comes from  the Latin verb ‘experiri’ what combines  ex- ( meaning out of or thoroughly)  and per-i,  related to try or to risk. I also carries meaning of experiment, proof and experience. English adopted  ‘experience’ to signify both the observation as a source of knowledge and the actual  event itself. At movement/dance workshops it is through  bodily activity  that  mental concepts  are verified, justified or questioned. We find that a concept of the thinking body  covers aptly the dynamic interplay between  theory and practice  of the performing arts. Our workshop’s runner were mostly artists or  scholar artists.

We hosted among other:

Vincent Mantsoe, Sondra H. Fraleigh, Komala Varadan, Rekha Tandon,  Atsushi TakenouchI, Thomas Riccio, Itto Morita, Suzana Martins

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