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PORCH is a 1-3 months dance and performance training, meeting and exchanging happening at Ponderosa in Stolzenhagen, Germany between Mai and September. Hosted by Stephanie Maher (USA - Germany) and Kathleen Hermesdorf (USA, San Francisco). Long life to PORCH! See www.ponderosa-dance.de for more informations.




As the first participants of this artist meeting we have decided to create a blog in order to communicate our thoughts together and keep sharing information about our work in the future.




Posts and messages

Here follows our reflexions and comments about the training and our experience together as well as information about workshops and projects that we organize around the world…

Thursday 29 July 2010

Workshop in Czech Republic August 2nd - 7th 2010


Instant Composition and it's sources.
A workshop with Kathleen Hermesdorf and Zuzana Sykorová




(sorry flyer so small!)

For more infos:

Intensive Workshop in Liverpool



Liverpool Improvisation Collective and Fool's Proof Theatre present:

INSTANT COMPOSITION: Co-Existing in the Space

a 4-day intensive workshop and series of performance events with Sebastián García Ferro at the Bluecoat August 31st to September 4th. Supported by Liverpool Culture's 10 for 2010 - Dance Commissions.

The workshop focuses on improvisation for performance, with specific interest in interdisciplinary performance. How can performers from different backgrounds co-exist in the space? What basic mechanisms of composition cut across disciplines to function as a common language? Open to performers of all disciplines (Theatre, Dance, Music, and Live Art).

The week will also include the artist talking about his own dance company's work and culminate in a double-bill evening of improvised performance: Sebastian Garcia Ferro/Adriana Pegorer (duet) and the workshop participants on Saturday Sep 4th.

Sebastián García Ferro is a Choreographer, Dancer, Contact Improvisation Performer and Musician from Argentina based in Barcelona - Spain. He has directed his own company since 1999, creating 16 dance pieces, and more than 15 choreographies, residencies and commissions in Europe. He won the 1prix in the 12maspalomas dance contest in 2007.
He regularly collaborates on other projects as an improviser and performer, touring in more than 17 countries (www.youtube.com/sgfdancecompany). Director of the Barcelona International Dance Exchange (B.I.D.E.), a platform for professional choreographers, dancers and performers: www.bide.be. He regularly teaches Contact Improvisation and Composition in Europe and SouthAmerica.

Programme of events:
Tues 31st August: Artist Talk & Film Showing with Sebastian Garcia Ferro 7pm
Wed 1st - Sat 4th September: INSTANT COMPOSITION intensive workshop 10am-6pm
Sat 4th Performance: Sebastian Garcia Ferro/Adriana Pegorer and
Workshop Group 8pm

Cost: £50
Contact: mary@foolsprooftheatre.com or Britt +44 (0)7981561875
Deadline to register: 7th August, places are limited: book early to avoid disappointment!

Saturday 3 July 2010

P.O.R.C.H. is…




… Based on a true story.


Arriving. Meeting.


Getting into new habits corresponding/responding to the new environment we find ourselves in.


Falling in the back space of the rule.


Visited by men.


Something like building up houses. Depth. Dimensionality. Journey. Taking away the question mark for a while.


A spider web. 14 spiders on the web. Not all of them visible at the same time.


Trust.