This workshop dives into the TASK-WRITE-REVISE method developed and used in Laiho's Final Project for her Master’s in Dance Degree,
R E S P A C E (2021).

It is a task based choreographic tool that uses repetition and accumulation to process movement ideas and to build patterns. The piece worked with imagination and space, with the aim to create authentic bodily experiences of imagined physical spaces. The workshop approaches these themes only loosely, and aims more to offer an alternative compositional tool.

The method works in a cyclical manner, where a task is decided and executed, and the experience of doing the task is logged through intuitive writing – or alternatively drawing – and then revising the task into a new form. The aim is not to recreate a set movements, but accumulate and build up movement from our sensations, and to keep record of the kinaesthetic, the experienced and the feelings of “right” when improvising. The workshop works as an introduction to the possibilities of the method, it does not necessarily aim to produce compositions, although they may always be happy surprises.

The workshop can be organised on request as a 4h-6h intensive or as
a 2-5 day workshop series. Individual sessions can also be arranged, for example as a proposal for tactics and solutions for material generation in early artistic process.

See calendar for Upcoming Workshops.


Past Workshops:

PRAXIS Oslo
September 27th-29th 2022
(6h in total)

PRAXIS Trondheim
December 9th 2023
(4h)

Individual Artist Sessions
August 2024
(2h-4h)