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Contemporary for professionals

by Lena Klink

Contemporary for professionals

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body parts shifting is a tool for movement improvisation built from the idea of neuroplasticity. As we establish ways of thinking and doing every day, the roads our neurons are running on, often are getting bigger. Those neurological high-ways show us on a micro scale how habits are getting embed in our bodies. In this work the body as a container shall learn how to transpose already implanted actions/reactions in new places and contexts; by using body parts in a way another part would usually work and function.

Recycle – Rediscover – Replace

How could your lips sit in your arm pit? What would be your strategy? How far can you send your imagination? How the fat of your gluts would feel in your lips? Discover and rediscover?

What does this mean? In a session I would start by discovering my mouth. What do I usually do with it? What is the anatomical and mechanical structure of this apparat? What kind of stories I connect to it? What roles my mouth can take in performing frames? How can those sensations travel through my body finding a new place to implement? How to find new ways to approach and think of my body? What are unusual ways of initiation and movements? How to compose within a body and with other bodies?

Lena Klink is a dancer and choreographer, who received her diplomas from SEAD in 2020 and Conservatory Antwerp in 2021. Her works as a choreographer are BODIES IN T_____SPHERE (2019), encouLer (2019), mellow yellow (2019), absent of (2020), seeds (2020) and work-in-progress-presentation of Schritt (2020).

Her movement research body parts shifting got funded by Dis-Tanzen,NEUSTART KULTUR, Dachverband Tanz Deutschland and by the Commissions of the Federal Government in 2021. In this working period a guided improvisation workshop unfolded which took influence in artistic projects.

For Ceren Oran she is dancing in The Urge (2021+2022) and performed since the premiere in various site specific locations in Munich, Czech Republic and Slovakia.

In 2021 she started to work for the choreographer Kat Válastur as choreographic, production and personal assistant for Diana, Even (2022), Eye, Lash! (2022) and the online magazine SPREAD (2022).

March 2022 she officially premiered her Solo Schritt in Dock11 and Acker-Stadt-Palast in the frame of blank check festival organized and performed by nein9 kollektiv, that she is a member of since 2021.