The workshop is free, but places are limited, so please RSVP quickly to jegypenztar@trafo.hu
Once a month, Trafó opens its Liliom Street dance studio to all those who love to move. Each time a different choreographer or dancer shares some of their favorite practices. The aim is not necessarily to learn a choreography, but to move together, to recharge and to learn from each other.
This Open studio will be a moment of sharing the sensorial tools that constitute the compositional score of the walking practice called ”Walk, Hands, Eyes (a city)” developed and pioneered by Myriam Lefkowitz. Interested participants can also take part as visitors during the Rural–Urban Relations focus. The first phase of the workshop will happen in a studio playing with different modalities of seeing and touching as the second part will consist of trying the score out in the city.
Myriam Lefkowitz is a Paris-based performance artist whose work explores questions of perception, attention, and the spectator’s experience. Since 2010, she has developed immersive projects centered on one-to-one encounters between performer and participant, investigating the relationship between body, space, and perception. Her work has been presented internationally at major institutions and festivals, including the Venice Biennale and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
The workshop is free, but places are limited, so please RSVP quickly to jegypenztar@trafo.hu
Walk, Hands, Eyes (a city) is a walk in the city that involves two people: one with the eyes closed (called the "visitor") and one with the eyes open (called "the guide"). The visitor is being guided through a specific mode of touch during one hour in silence. At different moments (maximum 10 times in an hour) the visitor is asked to open the eyes in the moment of a flash on different « images » being chosen and shown by the guide all along the way.
« Open/close », « step up/step down » will be the only spoken words of the walk.
The path will compose itself based on the notion of contrasts: contrasts of rhythm, of touch, of all the elements composing the fragments of the city the walk is happening in (lights, sounds, floors, indoor and outdoor spaces...)
This walk has no route apart from having nowhere to go. It expects nothing. It is only the encounter between two people and a fragment of a city, at a specific moment in time.
Walk, Hands, Eyes (a city) invites visitors to slide into a different mode of perception that involves to temporarily suspend vision and notice how it might affect their sensorial and imaginary activity.
What bodies and cities are we walking in?
This walk is a mobile observatory of the urban space it traverses. It consists of a study of a specific site based on direct perceptions. It does not impose itself on a site, but rather exposes itself to it, attempting to approach it as an unknown space.
A duo of witness-walkers, gleaners of images and perceptions who, through the amplification of their sensitive attentions, draw a mobile portrait of the environment they have traversed. Questioning the relationship between the act of perceiving and the act of imagining, the experience of this walk suggests other possible uses of urban space. The city is no longer seen and felt as a fixed environment but as a space in transformation.
It’s not longer about what is there but what could be there.
