The Kinitiras Choreography Lab, curated and mentored by Ana Sanchez-Colberg is a unique opportunity to expand, refresh and invigorate one's practice in a safe environment free from external, market-driven pressures. Forms of physical truth are privileged over forms that repeat or conform to existing tastes or trends.
Each international practitioner brings her/his own practice to the space with the Lab Mentor facilitating connections or hybrids with one's own practice, pointing out the liminal spaces between different theories and practices and gently guiding the participants through a meticulously curated journey.
This journey encourages above all dialogue, reflective activities, writing and the opportunity for creative, productive disobedience.
In its structure it allows time for digestion, assimilation, allowing participants to make methodologies that may seem alien to them, personal and “owned”. Sanchez-Colberg's choice of workshop facilitators is based as much on their research and pedagogic practice as their international pedigree and acclaim as artists and is forever blurring the line between educator and educatee.
This is not a laboratory for those who wish to be told what to do by an “authority”.
Along the way, via a continuous on-line blog that all contribute to, participants will encounter a deliciously diverse array of writers, thinkers and philosophers of artistic practice and be allowed time to explore them more or discover relationships with others.
As a practitioner this laboratory feels like a crucial step in an authentic direction.
