Workshop (performance making) - Casper Dillen

Casper Dillen twists performance, sculpture, and philosophy into public toilets, and karaokebooths. A graduate of CSM (Dean’s Award), Birkbeck (MA Philosophy), and RCA, their work has been seen internationally including at Tate Modern, The Place, Camden Art Centre (London), CPR (New York), WIELS (Brussels), Guling Street Avant-Garde Theatre (Taipei), and Cannes Film Festival. They have been an artist-in-residence with Elsewhere Culture in Kyoto. Shortlisted for New Contemporaries 2024. Longlisted for Artangel Open 2025. Critic Bruce Marriott has described their work as “surreal and bonkers madness”.

Website: casperdillen.com
Instagram: caspucci
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@casperdillen548

Description of the workshop

This workshop will offer frameworks and creative constraints for creating performance. We'll explore how limitations, rules, physical challenges, and the drama of games can generate choreography. 

We will construct tasks that sit at the edge of achievability. Hard enough to demand effort, easy enough to be possible. Offering various versions to play with. The tension between struggle and overcoming becomes the material of our performance. At times resulting in joy, play, celebration, drama. Sports have rules, scores, and stakes. We'll borrow and adapt these frameworks to generate  'goal oriented movement’; a principle of attention. E.g. focusing on  'getting to a spot as fast as possible in the space’ rather than focusing on ‘straightening a leg’. The session alternates between physical exercises and short philosophical interludes where we discuss what we're exploring.

The Promise
By the end of the workshop, each participant will have collaboratively created short, repeatable choreographic phrases that they can take with them. 

No prior dance training required. Open to all. Exercises will be adaptable and aim to accomodate everyone. 

Capacity:
10