MOTION QUALIA

Workshop with Satoshi Kudo

ANMELDUNG HIER

Termine
06. + 07.12.2025, 15:00–18:00

Level
advanced / professional dancers
(or strong movement background in a related area)

Fees
75€ Member
69€ Member Early Bird (until November 15th)

95€ Non-Member
85€ Non-Member Early Bird (until November 15th)

Workshop Description

Based on Kudo’s original movement theory “Motion Qualia” you’ll learn how to stimulate your brain to deliberately lose balance by provoking your reflexes which induce inevitable movement.

The work begins with physical practice of movement theory foundations to recognize the motion between being on and off-balance. This increases awareness of the constant movement surrounding you. Through guidance you’ll develop tools to follow disequilibrium through the experience of falling.

At the starting point you’ll learn how to disengage with your own equilibrium, enabling your body to float and eventually start to fall. This insecure state provokes the amygdala and activates a reflex. Normally this reflex moves you back into a secure place, but once learning constant awareness to this reflex through embodying theory, you are able to manipulate it into purposeful “miscalculation”. The eventual ongoing falling out of balance gives you the potential to continuously provoke your reflexes and bring about a constant flow. This process transforms the movement into something inevitable.

We see this when a dancer loses control on stage, worrying the viewer, but in the next moment catches their own body back into flow, as it was always supposed to be. Because the mirror neurons in the viewer’s amygdala respond to the dancer’s, the viewer experiences a simulated sensation of what the dancer’s embodied experience, which creates a moment of emotional sympathy.

“Motion Qualia” encourage you to release local control of the body by embracing control in a bigger sense through the physics of gravity and body. This composition of movement emphasizes sensuous dynamism as expression combined with aesthetics.

About Satoshi

Satoshi Kudo is a Stockholm-based dancer and choreographer who has performed with renowned artists such as Ohad Naharin, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, and the Danish Dance Theatre. He has served as assistant choreographer and rehearsal director for Eastman/Cherkaoui’s major productions, including Michael Jackson ONE (Cirque du Soleil), Der Ring des Nibelungen, and SUTRA. Kudo has also collaborated with the Royal Swedish Ballet on works by Mats Ek, Johan Inger, Alexander Ekman, and Sharon Eyal. As a choreographer, he developed the movement theory

Photo by Håkan Larsson