Physical Days 2021:
Winston Ricardo Arnon

Organisation
› physicaldaysbern
& marcelleemann.ch

Location
TANZhAUS Bern
Dalmaziquai 69, 3005 Bern

Daten und Zeiten/dates and times
22./23.05.2021
11:00–16:30

Kosten/cost
(Barzahlung am Anfang des Workshops/cash payment at the beginning of the workshop)
160 CHF

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Physical Days 2021

Our day starts with a warm-up class. The class will focus on fluidity, motivated by the skeleton. An ability to flow easily through the body and through movements. We will explore the transitions of how the bones and joints can affect the rest of the body. This creates a landscape of a movement language that transitions into a very physical space. A strong physicality will be implemented to work on stamina and agility. In order to move quickly and easily through the body and through movement, the class will zoom in on the release of the joints and the release of muscle tension, creating room to use this fluidity technique economically. The class is half supervised and half improvised. After class, we will play and discover more in a laboratory, performed through tasks, tasks on a physical level. First by taking a good look at the skeleton. Understand how powerful the skeleton is as a structure and why it is an important motivator for movement. This physical process zooms in on the bones, joints and the muscles that surround them. Create awareness for the given movement language. With this language we will further explore how we can communicate with each other and our own body by playing with composition, timing and intentions. We play with our own creativity, whether improvised or by giving material, and explore it through a path of connections with each other. End the day when we explore complexity through partnerships. Finding common ground and finding our differences. Here we bring everything together. They establish movement language and communication between each other. I believe partnership creates a need to push the physicality and understand relationships.On the second day, we build on what we researched on day 1. Making the day a place where we can revisit and delve deeper into the material and connections.

Winston Ricardo Arnon

Winston Ricardo Arnon was born in 1984 in Paramaribo, Suriname. He emigrated to the Netherlands at the age of 10. He graduated from the Amsterdam School of the Arts. He was also an exchange student at Alvin Ailey School in New York. He gained his first professional experience at the dance company Conny Janssen Danst in Rotterdam, where he worked from 2008-2013. Further projects as a dancer brought him to Sally Dansgezelschap Maastricht, Dansateliers Rotterdam and Korzo Den Haag. From 2013-2020 he joined the company Tanzcompagnie Konzert Theater Bern, where he collaborated on the works of Koen Augustijnen, Felix Landerer, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Estefania Miranda, Sharon Eyal and many others. In addition to his dance career, he produced numerous pieces in the company and beyond at other institutions. In the spring of 2014 he choreographed the piece "Invisibility would be preferred" within the choreographic platform of Konzert Theater Bern. Other choreographies in 2016 "Remote" and in 2018 "Flesh, Blood and Bones." For the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, he choreographed "Chrysalis" with the freshmen in 2018. He choreographed a series of duets related to the complexity of relationships. "We both love to party", "Crazy Coocoo Cunt", "Equilibrium of the Rigid Bodies" and "Lost and Maybe Found". In 2020/2021 he took part in several residencies to research new works and ideas: CIR Choreographers in Residence, CH. Swimming pool Architekten Zurich Loop Residency, Ch. Sally Dance Company Maastricht Danslab, NL. During all this, Winston also has a heart for teaching. While working for the dance companies, he regularly directed the company's workshops. He has taught at serval organization on a professional and semi-professional level. In his workshops, the performer experiences a playful, energetic and detailed way of approaching my style. His style is in constant flux and at this point he is interested in the skeleton as a motivator to move. "What I have learned and collected during my career working with great choreographers and teachers must be conveyed through my own identity and returned to our community."