Moving into Writing
a workshop with Chloe Chignell and Ann-Christin Kongsness
20. - 24. mai, kl 18 - 21 at Rom for Dans
1000,-

This workshop aims to take seriously the movement it is to come from and work within the field of dance and choreography and enter the field of literature through engaging in the activity of writing. How to not be completely overwhelmed by the conventions, demands and categorizations that exist in the field of literature, and at the same time not be completely ignorant towards it? How to deal with all of this on our own terms and integrate it into what we are already doing? We have developed this workshop on the basis of our own experiences, trying to make the workshop we ourselves would want to attend and that would be useful to us.

Through this workshop we will offer different entry points into the act of writing. Each day we will operate within a new frame that will make possible new experiences of and perspectives on writing. The different frames will facilitate different positions of authorship, different situations for working and different sets of values for what could be written. Each day we will change the time intervals, the limited or expanded frames for content to be produced and the degree of collectivity and sharing. This way we want to offer a wide range of ways to write and think about writing, so that everyone will hopefully find moments of comfort, reorientation and challenge.

This workshop is arranged in collaboration with Praxis Oslo and is supported by Arts Council Norway. It was first developed for the Indigo Dance Festival at PAF Summer University in August 2017.

Sign up for the workshop by sending a mail to: praxisoslo@gmail.com

Bring a notebook, laptop (if you want) and clothes to move in.
Possible to attend for both the ones that are already in some kind of writing process and the ones that want to start now! Possible to write in both English and Norwegian.

WELCOME!!

Bios
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Chloe Chignell (Australia) is a dancer and choreographer based in Brussels working across text, choreography and publishing. In 2018 she finished the P.A.R.T.S. Research cycle led by Bojana Cvejic where she developed her new work ... as if leaking. In 2019 she will continue this research through workspace Brussels and BUDA Kortrijk. Chloe is also co-editor of This Container magazine, developed in Stockholm with Maia Means. Her writing has been published by Indigo Dance Magazine (PAF) and Relatime (Australia). She has developed choreographic writing and reading formats hosted by Kottinspektionen (Stockholm) and PAF (France). She is co-initiator of PO$$E – a dance and reading group based in Stockholm.

Ann-Christin Kongsness is educated within dance, choreography, aesthetic theory and literature studies at Spin off, UiS, Skolen for Samtidsdans and UiO. She works as a dancer, choreographer and writer based in Oslo, making performances, seminars, conversation series, workshops, sharing platforms, texts and publications. A main interest in her work is the relationship between theory and practice, and dance and poetry. She is editor for the webpage framtidsdans.no and co-editor for the anthology KOREOGRAFI (2016/18). www.annchristinkongsness.com