Amrita workshop with MANUEL PELMUS
{ January 13, 2010 @ 1:35 pm }
Remember, even though Manuel’s a choreographer, he’s only worked with the Bhopana participants so far. This workshop, also at CKS, is pretty basic: spatial awareness (i.e. walking around the space, not bumping into each other), then a bit of automatic writing.
Interestingly, he’s prefaced this with a self-introduction, bringing forward his biography and the parallels between growing up in post-Ceausescu Romania and post-Pol Pot Cambodia. A personal journey. How he consequently feels it’s important to resist dictatorships of the mind.
Manuel: So it’s important to avoid certain norms or avoid certain institutionalised narratives or histories. So it is important to try and reflect on those. I know it’s a bit blurry, but I just wanted to say.
Ng Yi-Sheng