Workshop description
The body never lies nor do muscles ever forget.
We will create an open-end creative space, a situation, a landscape, a constellation, where we all have resources and tools to share, where exchange and production of knowledge will take place. Where getting lost or drifting off will be an intended part of the process. It will be dynamic, ever changing non-hierarchical assemblage of multiplicities and relations. We will dance, choreograph, observe and share. In our process dance will not desire to prove anything with the movement. We will dive into dance and choreography as separate and independent entities residing within our bodies. If choreography is the desire of the body to organize matter in space, then what is dance and more importantly, how can we set the conditions for it to appear in all its ephemeral glory?
We will aim for shameless emptiness.
Deprived of concepts, undressed from the meanings and layers of pre-conceived ideas on what dancing is, this laboratory will exist without being covered by a context or a meaning.
Biography
Alissa Šnaider is an artist, choreographer and photographer. She has obtained MFA diploma at Sandberg Institute (Amsterdam). Alissa Šnaider is a visual artist, dramaturge, choreographer and curator at elektron. Alissa began her career in 2002, creating several productions with Sandra Z in both Kanuti Guild SAAL and Theater NO99.
Their duo was not limited to the performance format but also expanded to the electronic stand-up pop band QueeNNaive, which toured for many years in Estonia including NuPerformance and Baltic Circle festivals. Alissa then joined Sasha Pepelyaev's troupe as a dancer in "Doors," for which she received the Philip Morris Dance Awards of the Year in 2006. In 2013 Alissa has performed for ‘’Intermission’’ by Maria Hassabi in the frame of “oO”,
Cyprus and Lithuanian Pavilion, 55th International Art Exhibition — Venice Biennale 2013.
Alissa Šnaider is known for her daring approach to collectivity, mediums and forms. Her sense of theatre-to-become and format-queerness is especially strong in “Three Left Hours (everybody’s piece)” (2015) which earned a special place in Estonian theatre
history.
She has presented her works at venues and festivals including:
SAAL Biennaal Festival at Noblessner Shipyard (Tallinn, Estonia 2019), Nowy Teatr (Warszawa, Poland 2016), Vaal Gallry (Tallinn, Estonia 2015), Julia Jongma gallery (Amsterdam 2014), Frankendael Huise (Amsterdam 2014), Frascati Theater (Amsterdam 2014), Het Veem Theater (Amsterdam,2013), Venice Biennnale in the frame of "oO"- Cyprus and Lithuanian Pavilion,Uferstudios (Berlin, 2013), Kanuti Gildi
SAAL (Tallinn, 2012), Baltic Cirlce Festival (Helsinki, 2011), Uzés Danse CDC; TanzWerkstatt; O Espaço do Tempo (France, Germany, Portugal, 2009).