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| resonance | is an idea that is being developed collaboratively by an international network of artists. These artists gather in studios, theaters, and nontraditional spaces throughout Europe and North America to exchange ideas and practices during workshops, laboratories, and performances.

| resonance | workshop
| resonance | is a workshop for movement artists based on practices that enable heightened states of sensory perception. We share methods for reverberating mindfully with other artists during duet and ensemble improvisation. We focus on listening, sensing, and acting from sound, movement, and memory impulses. We explore expansions and contractions of energy and sound in our bodies and in the spaces where we work. We trace the pathways that movement material takes between outside and inside: input – filtering – output – sending. Rather than reacting to other artists, we cultivate a stance that allows us to observe, consider, and respond with as much of our selves as possible. The group explores questions like: How do we transmit messages that perpetuate in different forms through the space instead of dying out? How do we translate or morph messages into different media like writing, drawing, or assessing? How can we use vibration, reflection, sounding, panning, resounding, writing, and remembering to create a resonating body?

Workshops can be designed for various durations: from one 3-hour session to multiple sessions spread throughout a week. The culmination of each workshop series is typically a public performance by the workshop leaders, participants, and invited guests.

This workshop is being developed by dance artists Martín Lanz Landázuri (Mexico) and Emily Sweeney (USA) and sound artist William Bilwa Costa (USA). It has been led in collaboration with dance artists Malin Astner (Germany/Sweden), Kristin Orav (Estonia), Daniela Lehmann (Germany), Raisa Kröger and Signe Koefoed (Germany).

workshops/performances 2011
2011: sine~waving workshop/performance, Schwelle 7, Berlin DE, w/ Malin Astner and Bilwa, Emily Sweeney, Amelia McQueen, Klaus Janek, Christian Schroeder, Dennis Tan, and workshop participants

2011: resonance workshop/performance, Deck 3, Berlin DE, w/ Raisa Kröger, Signe Koefoed, Bilwa, Emily Sweeney, Florian Tuercke, Christian Schroeder, Christian Weiss, Dennis Tan, and workshop participants

2011: resonance workshop/performance, Agora Collective, Berlin DE, w/ Audrey Chen, Luca Marini, Bilwa, Daniela Lehmann, Emily Sweeney, Andrea Serafim, and workshop participants

2011: resonance workshop, Movement Research at Eden’s Expressway, New York, NY USA led by Bilwa and Martín Lanz Landázuri (Mexico)

| resonance | laboratories and performances
the ideas explored in | resonance | have also been shaped into several performances.

2011: resonance…, The Kitchen NYC USA, Dance and Process performance with Martín Lanz Landázuri and Bilwa

2011: resonancity – sound and urban space, Extrapool Nijmegen NL, collaboration between Bilwa and Florian Tuercke – acoustic experiments in public spaces and performance at Extrapool

2011: resonance laboratory/performance, XBunker Exhibition Space, Sønderborg DK, w/ Bilwa, Christian Schroeder, Florian Tuercke, Christian Weiss, Rosa Isaldur, Ewa Huber, and Samuel Schaab