Interested in choreography and movement? Join Max Burgess in a 3-hour choreographic workshop at QL2 dance studios as part of Australian Dance Party‘s IMMERSE Labs. No specific dance training required.
Poetics, Semiotics, and Space:
The body is a rich catalyst for narrative. Through poetic text, Max has been notating this narrative to generate choreography.
In this process, poetic text is generated in response to improvisation, serving as a descriptive indexing of experience.
This indexing is then the genesis of choreography, providing a narrative for the body to repeat and proffer once more.
These texts can be deconstructed to create sporadic glimpses of choreography, symbolic of entire stanzas.
Furthermore, this library of choreography generated in response to poetic text can begin to play with the environment that surrounds, creating a poetics of space.
Join Max in exploring this practice and experiencing its potential for choreographic impetus.
Max (they/them) is a queer artist based between Naarm (Melbourne) and Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country (Canberra), whose practice spans the realms of dance, poetry, and dramaturgy.
