Synchronous Objects in Hamburg

It has been a good week of exchange and discourse about the work at the http://www.tanzkongress.de/ in Hamburg.

Steve Turk and I did a lecture demonstration and workshop on Synchronous Objects yesterday focusing on what is happening now with the project coming back into the studio and into classrooms (in dance and architecture).

Ohio State architecture students working on installation projects using synchronous objects as a resource.

More on curricular developments at Ohio State next week.

Here in Hamburg it was a pleasure to take a step beyond the lecture format this week and to share with 20 workshop participants a movement laboratory based on the systems in “One Flat Thing, reproduced” and the process we experienced in the creation of Synchronous Objects, namely the iterative and reflexive, analytical and creative scoring of the dance. We did several simple improvisations that allow the group to construct networks of relationships (cues) and to experience forms of relationship in motion (alignments) without any dance training.

I’ll post a lesson plan on the blog some day soon and I invite teachers out there who are using the site in their classrooms to share your ideas with me as well and here on the blog.

Hamburg by the way is a beautiful city with a small town feel and big city culture. It must be gorgeous in the summer. The Kampnagel where the conference is held is a fantastic renovated industrial facility, one of many in Germany. -Norah

Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany