SP26 SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES: THE JOY OF THE UNKNOWN

Movement Research & Improvisation Summer Intensive with Maciej Sado

Dates

10.08.–14.08.26, 18:15 – 19:45

Level

Open Level

Participation Fee

Workshop
60€ marameo members
75€ non-members

Drop-in
13€ marameo members
16€ non-members

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Workshop

The Summer Intensive: Movement Research and Improvisation is an extension of the well-established format developed at Marameo during the Tuesday evening sessions.
This intensive offers an opportunity to deepen the exploration of movement by investigating how to access and generate it from within, how to observe the body in motion, and how to cultivate pleasure in dancing while discovering new approaches to it. The workshop is open to participants of all levels and is designed to build progressively over the course of the week.
It draws on diverse somatic approaches and movement research techniques acquired along the way (BMC, Body Weather, Nothing, Butoh, Alexander Technique, etc.), as well as on collective questioning, shared tools, and the embodied knowledge already present within the bodies of the participants.
Throughout the process, we will engage closely with patterns (a well-known obsession of mine) that emerge within the space and the body—such as relationships to space, music, gaze, time, objects, and composition. These patterns will be examined both through practice and through observation of others, allowing for multiple perspectives on movement and creating the possibility for them to shift, morph, translate, and embrace change.
Gradually departing from what is “known” into the sometimes uncomfortable but far more fruitful space of “not knowing,” we will work with structured improvisational scores that challenge and expand our understanding of what dance can be, and what a dancing body might become.

Maciej Sado

Maciej Sado is a choreographer, dancer, performer, dramaturg, teacher, and curator. He holds a Master of Arts from AdBK Nürnberg, a Bachelor’s degree in choreography from SNDO (School for New Dance Development) at AHK Amsterdam, and a Medical Degree from the Medical University of Wrocław.

As a queer artist, his work focuses on questioning normativity in all its forms and analysing socio-political and geopolitical ideas about the body and movement. He is interested in in-between spaces, ontological cuts, and being on the spectrum rather than at the extremes, resisting unambiguous interpretation. His sensibility is close to ghosts, maximalism, camp, the uncanny, speculative realism, and dogs.

In dance, he often projects an augmented reality through his body, navigating and getting lost in the parallel worlds thus created. Since 2021, he has run the Patriarchs Anonymous group—a research project on queer and feminist masculinity expansion. A large part of his practice involves supporting other artists and engaging in collaborative creative processes. Here, his self-developed concept of dynamic dramaturgy supports this work.

He has performed in works by artists such as Ola Maciejewska, Florentina Holzinger & Vincent Riebeek, Fernando Belfiore, Laima Jaunzema, Colette Sadler, Sebastian Matthias, Tino Sehgal, Colin Self, Peaches, and others. His recent work has been presented in numerous European theatres, galleries, and festivals.

In 2016, he was a DanceWeb Programme Fellow at the ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna. Since 2019, he has been a member of the artist collective KuLe in Berlin.