moving music
This is the second Play As You Are workshop for musicians and musical-bodies, held by movement artist Alexandra Baybutt and musician Maya Felixbrodt.
Together, we explore relationships and ways to integrate body, movement and sound-making. This workshop focuses on the many possible ways of thinking, sensing and moving a relationship with your instrument and voice. Its space, its extension of your body, and with huge significance, the sense of touch between you. We are interested in what touch might mean for sensation, movement, core-response and transmission of breath. The Play As You Are workshops reflect our creative practices that includes experimentation and improvisation. And so with this workshop, similarly we invite you to discover new facets of your embodied replationship with your instrument and sound. As before, our workshop refers to concepts and tools from the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System to provoke explorations as well as further illuminate them. Please contact us to register your interest, then we will also send you a zoom link: pninax@gmail.com Participation fees: sliding scale of suggested donation, minimum €7/£8 up to €20. |
Alexandra Baybutt, RSME, CMA, PhD
Alexandra Baybutt (UK) works as freelance researcher, artist, dramaturg, and movement educator. As a movement educator and creator, she works in various contexts, including teaching in Higher education institutions in the UK, as well as on the certification programmes of Laban/Bartenieff Movement System in Europe. She co-facilitates an integrative pedagogy for singers with Barefoot Opera, led by Jenny Miller, most recently through the online space. She has a private practice of facilitating movement repatterning 1 to 1 with a range of clients in the field of performance and beyond. Recent dramaturgical work includes supporting choreographer Tania Soubry in projects in Berlin and Luxembourg, and for Moving Strings, experimental performance group. As a certified movement analyst, she is involved with a team of observers for a movement analysis and personality assessment research project between the University of Chicago and University of Haifa. Alexandra completed her PhD at Middlesex University on contemporary dance festival curation in the former Yugoslav space. Current post-doc research projects include ‘Dancing Through Crises’, an investigation into the effects of Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic on the diversity of the independent dance scenes in the UK (2020-2021) with Prof. Alexandra Kolb, Prof. Nicole Haitzinger and Dr. Anna Leon. In whatever role she is in, Alexandra believes strongly in the creative potential and necessity of collaboration, and holds an ongoing fascination for space as a kinaesthetic experience as well as political category. https://Alexandrabaybutt.co.uk |
The source of sound is movement and the (musical) instrument is an extension of the body. The movement is amplified by the instrument. It is set in an interdisciplinary environment where sound and movement happen simultaneously. In a nonhierarchical space, borders become more flexible. The movement is sounding and the sound is moving, expressing that music can not only but also be experienced as the movement of sound in space.
In 2014, during the MA studies at The Royal Conservatory, The Hague, I started researching physical movement and music through Laban Movement Analysis under under the guidens of Alexandra Baybutt. Since then I keep building and expending this practice by abstracting and applying movement concepts from different movement and dance practices in Viola playing, composition, ensemble and collaborative work and education.
In 2014, during the MA studies at The Royal Conservatory, The Hague, I started researching physical movement and music through Laban Movement Analysis under under the guidens of Alexandra Baybutt. Since then I keep building and expending this practice by abstracting and applying movement concepts from different movement and dance practices in Viola playing, composition, ensemble and collaborative work and education.
Research sessions and events
May 2021 Play As You Are_2 online workshop
Feb. 2021 Float / Traveling Viola @ Ogen/blik online festival
Nov. 2020 Play As You Are online workshop
Feb. 2020 Moving Strings debut @ Splendor, Amsterdam
Dec. 2018 "Moving music" workshop @ Oooh Free Impro Festival, Zimmer, Tlv
Oct. 2018 "Crumbling" @ Pitboel theater, Sittard, NL
Sep. 2018 "Moving strings" residency @ De muziekstraat, Amsterdam, NL
May-June 2018 "Crumbling" solo performance premiere @ Shared Space series, MISE-EN_PLACE, NYC and 3577 Studio, Pittsbourgh, PA
Jan. - May 2018 "Moving Strings" session led by 32-Trioduo (with Geerte de Koe) @ Bodlab studio, OT301, Amsterdam.
June 2017 "Can movement be heard?" solo set @ Experimental Israel, Halas online radio
May 2017 "Moving Music" Solo sets in The Hague (Grondwater festival), Rotterdam ( WORM Pirate Bay Media Archive) and Amsterdam (The present is present festival, Pintotonics+1, Huis de Pinto)
Feb. 2017 "Moving music": improvisation score for ensemble and audience, with Dganit Elyakim and Aurelie Lierman, Israeli female composers forum series, Shtriker Center, Tel-Aviv
May 2016 "Moving music" Residency, individual sessions, workshop and performance, CLOUD/danslab, The Hague
June 2016 "Moving music" Workshop and performance, Music in transition, The Hague
May 2021 Play As You Are_2 online workshop
Feb. 2021 Float / Traveling Viola @ Ogen/blik online festival
Nov. 2020 Play As You Are online workshop
Feb. 2020 Moving Strings debut @ Splendor, Amsterdam
Dec. 2018 "Moving music" workshop @ Oooh Free Impro Festival, Zimmer, Tlv
Oct. 2018 "Crumbling" @ Pitboel theater, Sittard, NL
Sep. 2018 "Moving strings" residency @ De muziekstraat, Amsterdam, NL
May-June 2018 "Crumbling" solo performance premiere @ Shared Space series, MISE-EN_PLACE, NYC and 3577 Studio, Pittsbourgh, PA
Jan. - May 2018 "Moving Strings" session led by 32-Trioduo (with Geerte de Koe) @ Bodlab studio, OT301, Amsterdam.
June 2017 "Can movement be heard?" solo set @ Experimental Israel, Halas online radio
May 2017 "Moving Music" Solo sets in The Hague (Grondwater festival), Rotterdam ( WORM Pirate Bay Media Archive) and Amsterdam (The present is present festival, Pintotonics+1, Huis de Pinto)
Feb. 2017 "Moving music": improvisation score for ensemble and audience, with Dganit Elyakim and Aurelie Lierman, Israeli female composers forum series, Shtriker Center, Tel-Aviv
May 2016 "Moving music" Residency, individual sessions, workshop and performance, CLOUD/danslab, The Hague
June 2016 "Moving music" Workshop and performance, Music in transition, The Hague
Research related works, projects and collaborations
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