Toitoitoi is a platform for learning and sharing where practitioners across departments can encounter each other to try out and play around with performance-based art and methods and pay attention to the ways in which these experiences leak into their own practices.
Toitoitoi will invite different performance artists to lead a workshop, followed by a series of aftercare sessions where the participants can meet again to share afterthoughts, works and get a chance to delve deeper into ideas and mediums they want to experiment with.
Toitoitoi offers a space for everyone interested in how different art practices come together, merge, and inform one another.
Next toitoitoi workshop _EDGING THE GROUND, LIKE THE SKIN OF A LOVER_ will be led by alex blum!!
*the sound holes are mouths, heads, lungs, sinuses, and the love calls are hearding calls, cruising attempts or just the eternal impulse to connect with others*
This workshop invites people to explore using performance and theater as a transformative and political way of expressing and acting upon struggles, all of it in drag. It is informed by the Theatre of the Oppressed, a community-based technique developed by Augusto Boal. The workshop includes creating characters, expressing our emotions, performing for each other, and having discussions about the struggles we face in everyday life, using humor and over-dramatization in the style of telenovelas.
2024
Eva Delville
Philisha Kraatz
Christina Reinhardt
In this multidisciplinary performance workshop we will explore what it means to liberate our creative and intuitive bodies in a real-time performative context. During three days, we will research and explore different body-based practices, methods and tools that encourage us to feel empowered as improvising performers and instant composers.
November 25, 26, 27
16:00-21:00
@ project space 101, FedLev building
RSVP: toitoitoi.project@gmail.com
We will gradually yet actively strive to create a group container where we hold space for vulnerability, practice embodied listening, and embrace our perceived ‘failures’ as a pathway to shameless and authentic self-expression. The week will start off with accessible practices and exercises based in movement, text and voice/sound and slowly progress toward frameworks and strategies which result in more layered performative scenes and realities.
We will ultimately work towards an (informal) public presentation moment in which we emphasize cross-contamination with other artistic practices and disciplines. You are therefore actively invited (if you feel inspired) to bring your own skills/artistic practice to research and enrich within a real-time performative setting. Consider it a playground where you can, together with other artists, explore, question and stretch the boundaries of your own artistic voice and practice.
Let’s play!
The sessions are held by Erik Van de Wijdeven and Maria Mavridou, two multidisciplinary artists working in Amsterdam and abroad. Erik has a background in theatre and (light) design, Maria has a background in dance and choreography. For the past years both have gathered extensive experience with (improvised) performance in movement, text, scenography and other media.
Poster Design by Cleo Tsw
