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Heléna Hrotkó

 yelena.x@gmail.com

 +36 70 536 06 15

KEY TEACHER, Workshop Foundation

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IDOCDE Symposium – ImPulsTanz Vienna 2013 July 26 – 28.

Discovering the Voice recorder (28^th of July, from 3 to 6 PM)

 Dear Idocer!

During this last 1,5 years of being member of the IDOCDE program and brainstorming around the topic of documentation, I discovered a new tool that quickly became part of my everyday life. My new friend is the voice recorder! 

I built up a new routine concerning my class preparation: The day of my class I go for a nice walk and I dedicate that time to my lesson. As I enter the forest I switch on the voice recorder and start to speak about the topic of the class, images, ideas that are appearing as associations. I realized that some kind of an inner conversation develops in this way, as if I was speaking to someone who listens to me and it inspires me to develop and connect different ideas.

In my experience, it helps to arrive in the present moment, into my body sensations and to calm down my highly enthusiastic mind just by speaking out loudly what is in there. The fact that it’s recorded makes a big differencefor me. I meet my voice first from inside and then from outside, it is like a new encounter with myself.

 What do I propose to you dear Idocer?

To try it out!! Cause it’s so fun! I would like to give a frame for your experience with the Dictaphone:

Our meeting point will be at the entrance of the main building and our journey will take place along the long corridor. You will find me with a little basket full of little papers with a body part written on each. You will pick one of does and here starts your journey all along the couloir with the voice recorder!

I invite you to take a walk during which your „task” is to have a conversation with yourself (or even with other people walking in the corridor) about your surprise topic. You can go with your own timing and with your interests. A few guidelines for your recording:

• speaking about your sensation in that body part right now
• what kind of experiences did you have with it in your body history?
• How would you build up a dance class around it?
• You can make an „interview” with a person that you meet in the corridor about your topic.
• you can speak about feelings connected to that body part in the past and also in the present moment.

It’s your journey, it up to you! It is just a frame for you to enter into the game.

When you arrived to the end of the corridor you switch it off and you come back to the meeting point. While you are walking back, you are revisiting your pathway, you can play your recording back to listen to your documentation.

Why did I chose this location for the program? Well, I often use my voice recorder also being among other people. It is also a practice about how to stay with myself and focused on my work with others arrond. Then I really like that long corritir of ImPulsTanz! It can really give us the sensation of a journey with the tool. But if you dont feel so, you can choose to go in an other direction and just follow your legs... being awear of time.:) Pleas be back to the meeting point till 5.45! Thanks!;)

See you soon!

P.s: If you have a voice recorder, please don’t forget it at home! (it can be a mobile phone as well if it functions as a voice recorder!) I’m starting a voice recorder hunting till the end of July cause I have only 2 right now…

Short Biography:

Heléna Hrotkó: Holistic Dance Teacher (Institute for Holistic Dance and Movement Pedagogy) and contemporary dancer (Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy). I am giving regular improvisation classes and workshops in Budapest and also abroad (Italy, Austria) since 2010 for children and adults too. Since May 2012 I also teaching AlohaSi, an Italian relaxation method with a tool called Aloha. I am working as a dancer with “Living Picture Theatre”. Both teaching and performing are part of my own movement research in somatics, and body consciousness. I’m organizing regularly workshops in Budapest for foreign teachers working in somatics, authentic movement, butoh dance in order to enrich the network of contemporary dance.  

- AIMED AT WHO  To anyone who want to have an authentic journey with the voice recorder (max. number depends on the numer of voice recorders. By the way: don't forget yours at home!;)

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-  Time: sunday 3 to 6 PM                                                                                                                                                          

- TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS: voice recorders!!                                                                                                                                                                              

- SPACE NECESSITY (studio size etc): corridor and a little space at the entrence,  at the beginning of the corridor with a table and a chaire.