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B o h e m i a e  R o s a 2  PLASY MONASTERY / STRELA RIVER VALLEY

3 - 17 September 1997

International Interdisciplinary Open-Air Workshop for dancers and artists exploring the relation among body, art and landscape by Milos Sejn, Frank van de Ven and guest teacher Martin Buchner , Bohemiae Rosa Project, Hermit Foundation and the Center for Metamedia in Plasy

Participants              

Martin Janíček (CZ) – Ivana Teršová (CZ) – Olga Kropíková (CZ) – Hana Pýchová (CZ) – Rolf Meesters (NL) – Alena Doležalová (CZ) – Malte Dickmann (D) – Jan Erik Kolář (D) Petr Uličný (CZ) – Daniel Šimek (CZ) – Michael Peters (D) – Viktorie Šmejkalová (CZ) – Etrona van der Heyden (NL)

MB = muscles and bones mind and body training M = Milos F = Frank Ma = Martin                  

WEDNESDAY         3/09   

9.00 – 12.30    MB - Manipulation 1 + 2 in Prelature – 12.40  introduction all participants lunch break – 14.30 –18.30  introduction to slow movement hands mouth and whole body 60 min F – work on colours M – 3 move 1 slow and precise – movement without intention  alone

THURSDAY             4/09

9.00     all day silent walk from Plasy Monastery to Mariansky Tynec to Kralovice brook and back – 4 groups of 3 people focus on sound smell taste touch – end of day strong rain

FRIDAY        5/09   

10.00 – 13.00  4 groups of previous day meet and discuss their experience and report to group 14.00 introduction and talk Martin and discussion about architecture – write soft and hard words – talk using these words Ma – running with loose arms – laying and standing up – 1 person sits on chair partner indicates movements by words F – 16.30 approach partner blind find good distance – partner as element of architecture M

SATURDAY 6/09   

9.00 – 1.30      MB – Manipulation 1-2 – with partner small movements in articulation – standing and lying – lunch break – 2.40 drawing Ma -  drawing line and breath – drawing line in different timing in granary M – preparation for 24 hour project ‘Big Isolation’

SUNDAY      7/09              

11.00   visit convent 12.30 preparation for ‘Big Isolation’ – 15.00 drawing with A4 paper and pencil on wall and floor – connect to breath and imagination M

MONDAY  8/09     

08.00 – 08.00  All participants spend 24 hours alone on an 4 by 4 meter plot of grass in the inner courtyard of the convent – one can see all others but no talking or sign language is used – each 1 bread and 2 l of water and sleeping bag and notebooks  

TUESDAY    9/09              

11.00 – 2.30    MB – walk blind on line and on cirkle – manipulate body parts 16.00 put music in parts of body with partner observing and giving feedback – standing walking and sitting on chair F – small movements in articulations half group observes F – dinner – 21.00 walk through underground tunnel with candles to confluence with Strela river

WEDNESDAY         10/09             

9.00     MB –  Manipulation – 12.00  1 hour personal actions (self chosen action to be repeated over several days) 15.00 – 19.00 body size paper in corridor touch architecture of convent M + Ma  

THURSDAY 11/09             

9.00 -10.30     walking backwards on meadow next to Strela river F – write names of colours of river bank and weir 40 min M – 12.00 1 hour personal actions – Petr scaffolding climbing – 15.30 drawing with natural pigments on body size paper in Peklo valley M – 18.00 – 19.00 drawing aura with natural pigments on meadow Ma – evening discussion program

FRIDAY   12/09       T.V. Documentation day                           

10.00   walking backwards in convent corridor – touching bodies on wall and staircase – touch and draw with paper in St Bernardus Chapel – walk with candles into ventilation system – 5 person enter slowly into basement water cistern with oak beams – record traces on paper near river bank – drawing with natural pigments – interviews with participants and with Milos Frank and Martin – Rolf leads evening discussion

SATURDAY  13/09

9.45          discussion on paper about relation group and convent ­– 12.00 1 hour personal

actions – visit and clean water spring and talk about connection with underground water system of convent M

SUNDAY      14/09

morning off – 15.30 collect pleasant and unpleasant found objects in granary Ma – 16.30 slow movement F – sit and project imaginary spaces like mental drawing M – project shadow of found objects on wall and draw Ma

MONDAY    15/09

12.00 1 hour personal actions 16.00 drawing movement from bodies filled with music  – use tables from on meadow F – evening report personal actions to group

TUESDAY    16/09

10.00 walk around convent through ventilation system between 2 outer walls M – in Prelature recapture movement from previous ventilation system walk F – 18.00 collective work led by Rolf titled ‘paradise courtyard’ 20.15 – 23.30 full moon total eclipse night walk M

WEDNESDAY         17/09

report personal actions to group – end meeting workshop

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