POOLing / a workshop by Nhandan Chirco

POOLing
A workshop by Nhandan Chirco

26 - 30 January 2011 / h 4 - 8 pm
Event of the programm
Via del Confine / The East Side (of the moon)
by YANVII, Rad’Art Project / Artéco,
Teatro Comunale di Gambettola
In collaboration with Teatro Petrella

The workshop explores possibilities and resources related to
body work in performing arts. The specific approach is aiming
to performer training, and to the development of one's creative
potential. Movement works starts from the concrete factor of
a body in a space, investigating its mental and physical limits
and resources, and the most basic elements of the situation.
Then the work develops in the tension between two poles: on
one side the actual context given by the relation among
body/space, performer/ observers, and its implicit conventions,
on the other side the individual flow of conscience, the inner
river of images, stream of memories and sensations. As they
are led through physical training, participants will be immerse
in fluid working sessions where each one should choose the
focus of his/her working process, questioning it individually
and finding in the game among inside / out-side what are the
relevant elements to develop a performing action / presence. The
intensive and demanding movement / breath / voice work
invites to experiencing the performance space through the
awakening of the body. The methodology proposed is based
on a re-visting of the body work developed by Jerzy Grotowski
and on principles coming from contemporary dance.


Nhandan Chirco is a performing artist, she lives and works
among Italy, Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia. In ’94 /’98 she
is part of the artistic team at the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski
and Thomas Richards. Since ‘98 she collaborated with the
director and actor Branko Popovic, with the Slovenian theater-
director Tomi Janezic, with the Croatian drama director
Zlatko Sviben; she attended courses of contemporary dance
and butoh-dance (Min Tanaka, Carlotta Ikeda) and she
developed long term professional collaborations in the field
of contemporary dance as with the dance company EN -
KNAP - Ljubljana, with the choreographer Maja Delak, and
others. Recently she collaborated with musicians of electronic
music: Blank Disc, R. Toza, J. C. Potvin, Hotel Nuclear, M.
Aleksic, I. Lecic. In ‘04 she has been docent of Body and
Voice Work in the post-graduate course Body Unlimited -
University of Novi Sad, in ‘04/’07 of Body Work at Art
Academy of Osijek – University of Osijek. Since ‘04 she is
author and performer of the performances: KANUN; Mislim
Reku; Phren; and - in collaboration with Branko Popovic:
That’s the show; TWO – variation on identity; Play It Again.
In the frame of her project STREAMLINE she realized in
‘09/’10 the performances: Quanta, More, Queens.

At: Teatro Comunale di Gambettola
Dates: 26 - 30 Gennaio 2011, h 4 -8 pm
Languages: English, Italian, Serbo-Croatian
Participants: 16 (max.)

For info and inscription:
info@rad-art.org +39 333 8052938
yanvii@hotmail.it +39 338 1889040

Promoted by:
YANVII
Provincia di Forlì-Cesena
photo by Nikola Bradonjic
The Rad’Art Project / Regione Emilia-Romagna
e dalla Provincia di Forlì-Cesena