Experimental Contemporary with Muti Movement

Thu 27 Apr 2017, 8 – 10 pm
Kinergie Studio

From the organizer:

This workshop focuses mainly on the dancer’s relationship with the floor, earth and ground. Simple movement patterns involve breathing, speed, and the release of energy through the body in order to activate the relationship between centre and periphery and between joints and skin. Exercises will focus on moving in and out of the ground more efficiently by maintaining the state of being centred. Emphasis is placed on the skeletal structure, which will aid to improve physical perception and alertness. The workshop includes partnering work and movement phrases, which explore the primary laws of physics: cohesion and expansion.

Connecting with our breath to channel the source of our inner power and allowing any tension to melt away, engaging the present sensory awareness and transforming your energy through space. Through different combinations and exercises, finding efficient ways to move in and out of the floor, inviting sensation to develop new movement qualities. Through this blend we will find the unity of the four rhythms we experience in our lives: heartbeat, breath, meridian rhythm, and cerebrospinal fluid rhythm. All these four rhythms regulate our homeostasis in body, mind and spirit to ignite full embodiment and total finding the state of depth movement and the essence of living. Incorporating, eastern and western approaches to movement practise with strong influences from Qi gong, flying low, gaga technique, krump, capoeira, improvisation, and new lens to approach contemporary dance. Gaining an insight into Muti’s movement repertoire and developing your internal movement language to find your authentic expression.

Muti Musafiri comes from a hip hop, spoken word and dance background, pursuing theatrical arts and dance from a young age in contemporary dance and various hip hop styles through the vigorous training of the LABAN CAT program, and also creating and performing full length pieces of work with Shoreditch youth dance touring in Sweden. He then followed training at Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD) where he participated in different performance pieces and movement research explorations. After leaving SEAD, he followed exploring experimental sound and movement expression performance work at Smash Berlin. Muti then facilitated a number of different immersive performative communal events around London and was part of 4 social movements, Bacchus Playtime, XX Experience and R.A.R.E (Rarethinghappen) Ziferblat (Shoreditch), and has always been about community and expression.

During the summer of 2015 Muti created “J’Agura…Means of Engagement” which aimed at ‘challenging artists and audiences perception of engagement’ where he premiered new site specific piece ‘Embellished Abundance’ as part of the Love Festival at South Bank. Since then he has been performing and touring with Avant Garde Dance company in new works ‘Ku dia ta’, the black album tour ‘the dinner’; curation installation as part of dance umbrella’s the factory and the current Fagin’s Twist UK tour retelling of dark reflection of fagin’s perspective! Muti has worked with National theatre, Salah el Brogy company Dance umbrella, Sadler’s wells, the place and Dance east amongst many more getting an overall understanding of all the dance organisations of the UK and since then taken his work international. After completing Integro Dance Beyond, 1 month residency with Qi gong, haffa yoga, Thai massage, cranial sacral bio dynamic, passing through and flying low with the creator of the technique which has widely influenced his current teaching approach designed to create more holistic teachers.

Watch Muti Musafiri’s performance “Embellished Abundance” here:

In 2016, as a choreographer Muti created 2 new Dance theatre work ‘Refractions of Attachment:s’ which premiered at Resolutions at The Place Festival for emerging Choreographers and a solo called ‘Entheogenic’ for Open Arts Surgery as part of breakin’ convention Sadler’s wells, which has been developed into a full 1 hour solo premiered in Waiheke island in New zealand. Since then he has brought his ideas and work in Hanoi, working Quest festival and freeflow festival to create gala shows. Muti has been teaching his O’Muti’ma workshop series in New Zealand and Cambodia, collaborating with a number of different visual artists from all walks of life and mediums with the outlook of innovating new possibilities and experiences.

Participants: who has practised creative movements and contemporary dance.

Language: Vietnamese – English

Fee: 250K (150K for current students of Kinergie Studio)
REGISTRATION: http://tiny.cc/Kinergie-Muti
Hotline: 091 208 1950
Email: [email protected]

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