VALERIE OBERLEITHNER
artist choreographer | movement director | coach
ARTIST PLATFORM
COLLECTIVE CHOREOGRAPHY
Masterclass happynest
Lille, France
2022
Collective Choreography: sensing and creating community through dance and embodiment.
A workshop by Valerie Oberleithner
In this workshop we try to draw our attention to the senses of the body and our multisensorial interconnected existences. Through dance and somatic practice we experience our bodies collectively and we connect to existing physical and social spaces.
Through a performed de-hierarchization of the senses (from the eyes, ears towards the touch, the smell etc.) we create a mode of collective choreographing, rather than focusing on the conventional model and proposed gestures of an individuum, the so called choreographer. We work on dance as a social and sensorial experience in a concrete physical space.
We will allow all sorts of interpretation. We will allow the conscious and the unconscious to appear and disappear. We are going to share tools, thoughts and experiences. We perform, dance, sing, write and invent scores and choreographies.
BODY TAKING CARE
Masterclass happynest
Amiens, France
2021
Bodies taking care: rehearsing, reflecting and performing relationships in contemporary artistic processes.
A workshop by Valerie Oberleithner with guest Prof. Nicole Haitzinger
Artists Curators, how do your relationships in the field of contemporary performing and visual art look like and how could they look like acknowledging a post-utopian relational context based on principles of care and caring?
What is the function and responsibility of a curating artist/artistic curator in this context? How do we envision a ‘fantastic institution’ in which we can be what are beyond the mechanisms of representation?
In this workshop we would like to introduce, rehearse, discuss and motivate care practices. We work with our bodies, we carefully introduce practices which are accessible for everyone, which foreground caring for and taking care of each other; we try to provide a frame/a possibility for equally shared time and space. We seek to create a space in which an intimate, close - to - the - body and generous dialogue can happen.
Working on and with the senses, the sensibilisation of each one and the collective awareness in a group interests us in a political, ethical and aesthetical way. We practice, explore, experiment, discuss and create action.
MEDITATIONS ON BODY AND TEXT
Masterclass happynest
Amiens, France
2020
Meditations on Body and Text in contemporary performance practice.
A workshop by Valerie Oberleithner with guest Mag. Dr. Martina Ruhsam
Resorting to methodologies borrowed from multifarious cultural practices, the workshop addresses the specific kinaesthesias of the discursive and vocabular dimensions necessarily implicated in one’s artistic performance practices.
Combining body practices with writing tools, it intends to expand the range of possibilities in creative processes, allowing us to re-think the complicated entanglements of collaborative, discursive, and artistic practice.