Tumbling down to fall over backwards - Axis Syllabus WS with Antoine Ragot

tumbling down - to fall over backwards For the bipeds that we are, walking on our hands, or dancing with our hands as support, certainly requires a sharp look at our arms as a structuring architecture. The comparison with the legs shows similarities, and obvious differences. The situation of a passage by the hands, possibly perilous, questions our sense of balance, the physical power of an articular alignment, the confidence... and allows daring tumbling, by this inversion, where arms and legs exchange their usual role. The deal with gravity becomes more important, our sense of adaptation is newly solicited. With a look at the anatomical functions of the hand, the elbow, the shoulder, the spine, I propose to explore our arms as a support, and to play with combinations where the passages through the upper limb offer a multitude of options. Through games of balance and partnership, exemplary dance sequences, with personal researches and group retransmissions, let's experiment together the art of falling backwards, according to all sorts of modalities, supports and motors. Location: Warteck, Burgweg 15, 4058 Basel Costs: Regular Workshop price in swiss francs 220 Early Bird – until one month before 200 Core group price – if 5 or 6 of the workshops are booked 180 Possible reduction for people not living in switzerland -20 Schedule: Friday 18.00 – 20.30 / Sa & Su 10.00 – 16.00 / (Mo 10.00 – 16.00) Registration and Questions to: Livia Kern, [email protected] ANTOINE RAGOT Antoine was born in Poitiers, France and is now based in Berlin. Being an athlete throughout his first 20 years of life, his interest in the body manifested in two years of medical school which led to the university of sport sciences of which he graduated with a Bachelor degree specializing in education and motor skills. He then became involved in dance and different contact improvisation communities throughout France which brought him closer to unify his interests for the body, movement and performance. Today Antoine brings many years of teaching contact improvisation, sports and early motor development to his fastidious bent for research and sharing of the Axis Syllabus. Antoine is known for his enthusiasm and infecting others with the movement-research-geek-syndrome. Currently, his research is oriented towards paleoanthropology and functional morphology as well as the refinement and development of athletic skills via a friction between the Axis Syllabus research and problem-solving situations. Other Workshops of the Axis Syllabus Cycle in Basel 2022: Mar 18 / 19 / 20 Maria Mora About sensing fascia - Axis Syllabus and Contact Improvisation Apr/May 29 / 30 / 1 Frey Faust Falling Up - best coordination for effective uses of gravitational potential Sept 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 Kira Kirsch Phenomenal bodies - dance training & improvisation as experiential research practices Okt 21 / 22 / 23 Francesca Pedullà Time Curves - Negotiations between internal and external rhythms – Collectivity Nov 25 / 26 / 27 Diana Thielen Body as a Verb