Südpol-dance: Physical Theater with Shinichi Iova-Koga

Südpol-dance format

Improvisational training for movers, musicians and theatrical performers taught by Shinichi Iova-Koga
Authorized Action Theater™ Teacher
This is a workshop on the integration of precision, focus, feeling states and physical movement. We allow actions to arise while attending to the composition of time and space. We train for the performance of life and stage by entering the unknown. The capacity and confidence to respond with flexibility and humor arises through our practice.
Each step, sound, word or action we generate extends an invitation to those around us, prompting a series of responses and interactions which become the flesh and bones of a new organism. Provided that we remain aware of this relationship, it lives. To craft this life, we play with timing and space while connecting to our internal feeling states. We learn to say “yes” to the unknown, allowing the situation to develop its own logic, personality and energy.
We will move, sound and speak in duets, solos and groups. Wear loose clothing and be prepared to shed your planning mind
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Shinichi Iova-Koga serves as the Artistic Director of the physical theater and dance company inkBoat, founded by Shinichi in 1998. He has toured in North America, Europe, South Korea and Japan, often collaborating with local artists in museums, theaters, studios and site-specific locations.
Since 2015, Shinichi’s career as an international performer has merged with his Daoist Internal Arts study. Qi Gong, Dao Yin, Yang Sheng Gong and Nei Gong are part of his daily practice. He is credentialed to teach through Lotus Nei Gong International and is a San Feng Pai lineage holder with Wudang West. Additionally, he has developed his approach to relationships between bodies through Aikido.
Ruth Zaporah is his continuing mentor. Her method of improvisational skill building is called Action Theater. Significant past mentors are Ralph Lemon, who opened up ideas about “antidance” and Anna Halprin, who encouraged community building through the art-making process.
Shinichi teaches annually at ImpulsTanz in Vienna and Dance on Land in California. He has served as a full time core faculty member of the MFA Dance program at Mills College in Oakland, California, from 2009 to 2017. He has taught Composition in the Arts for MFA students at UC Davis in 2014 and 2022. He currently runs independent workshops and online courses.
He is the editor of the book “95 Rituals,” a tribute to Anna Halprin, and a contributing writer to
“The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance.” He is featured in the book “Butoh America.”

CHF 15 t./IGTZ Mitglieder, CHF 25 regulär
Kontakt und Informationen: profitraining@igtz.ch

Clouds from a Crumbling Giant
Das Tanzfest Zentralschweiz ’23
Shinichi Iova-Koga ©Maria Cheilopoulou