The return of the idocs, IDOCDE Symposium Vienna, July 26-28, 2013

- FULL NAME: Dorka Farkas

- EMAIL ADRESS    : farkasdorka76@gmail.com

- PHONE NUMBER: + 36 70 422 9070

- KEY TEACHER YES, Workshop Foundation

- TITLE OF THE ACTIVITY: Forum and class (optional) on Teaching Improvisation Improvised

- DETAILED CONTENT DESCRIPTION (300 words or more):

- SUMMARY OF CONTENT DESCRIPTION         I would like to converse on the topic of improvisation, and teaching improvisation. How much preparation does someone need to teach a good class? And what is preparation in reality? Is it authentic to teach Improv fully planned? Or what, if you risk? If you only rely on what is there, in the class room - at the present moment? Do you dare to do that? Controll and trust... Presence and experience... I invite people to share on this topic. If I get the chance to teach a class, it would be also organized around these thoughts, and would offer a surface for this topis as model.                                                                                                                                                               

- SHORT BIOGRAPHY I was born in Hungary, Szolnok, next to the theatre. My mum was a kinder-garden teacher, my dad was a scene-painter at the theatre. I have been watching performances ever since I can remember. I studied in a primary school which offered daily PE and sports, so movement has become as natural a part of my life as breathing is. During secondary school, the paths of theatre and movement met, and I started to watch, study and make movement-theatre and dance. Later, I studied Yoga instruction at the Buddhist College in Budapest and was a member of the alternative theatre, Arvisura. I discovered improvisation and contact-improvisation in 2000, and I am still passionate about both. Among the brilliant Hungarian and foreigner teachers I met, it was my back problem, that taught me a lot about listening to one's body and mind, and accepting the present moment. Moving to Belgium in 2001, I started to give private movement classes for adults. My son was born a year later, and I got fascinated about the amazing world of children, and became more interested in teaching them. In 2006, I went to Finland, to learn how to teach creative dance as part of a degree programme. This one year course focused on somatic methods, movement exploration, and community dance. Since then I have taught movement to children, and body-awareness to blind youngsters.  When I moved back to Brussels from Finland, I regularly met dancers and circus artists for laboratory work on real-time composition, and movement exploration.  My daughter was born in 2008, and we moved to Transylvania to learn other things about nature's 'dance' at the foot of the mountains. I believe that dance is more, than most people think, and that anyone can discover the joy of creative movement. In my work, senses and vision are often in focus. I am interested in asking good questions rather than having answers. I moved back to Hungary in 2011. As a member of the quartet TetraEther I teach and perform contact-improvisation and improvisation. I recently joined the asociation'Artman' and as a part of this work I co-teach movement awareness for visually impaired people, and I am being part of a teachers' teams in a training program organized for future movement group leaders - specialized on handicapped people. I started working with the Ensamble Tanceania in 2012. I am also involved in multidisciplinary art projects, where music, movement, visual arts can nourish each other and the artists/participants.

- AIMED AT WHO (AND HOW MANY PEOPLE MIN /MAX?) Min 4 max 25

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-  TIME REQUEST: 90 minutes  demonstrative class ------ 60 minutes discussion on the topic                                                                                                                                             

- TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS (audio, beamer etc):                                                              audio yes please