Date: September 18-22nd, 2024. IAAGT Conference, Veracruz, Mexico
https://iaagt.org/iaagt-biennial-conference/
This workshop draws parallels between choreography and Gestalt practice. Choreography expands outwards from making dances to ‘question, develop, rearrange … to enable forms of navigation in the world. If choreography can be understood as knowledge it becomes a way of approaching and conducting life’ (Spångberg 2017:367). This workshop introduces choreography as arrangements of objects, phenomenologically, in space and time, in ways that make ‘the whole greater than the sum of the parts’ (Burrows 2010: 40). The practice offers parallels with the ever-changing organisation of field, figure and ground familiar to Gestalt therapy. Reflecting on the ways we choreograph deepens knowledge of our cultural backgrounds, field/figure choices and intersubjective creativity, and suggests ways to re-imagine our relations with environments.