artistic dialogue and workshop

Speaker: Sara Wookey
English spoken
Location: Marres, House for Contemporary Culture
Time: 7 -9 pm
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Movement is the primary sense with which we explore our environment and give meaning to it. Building on her 20-year long experience, American choreographer Sara Wookey will engage in a public dialogue about the ways in which dancers and choreographers can provide new perspectives on space and movement. Wookey’s presentation will focus on the experiential being in the museum and aspects of the social and spatial conditions her work approaches and tests out. In addition, she will do a short experiential movement exercise.

Sara Wookey (1972) is a dancer, choreographer and creative professional currently based in London. She is the director of Wookey Works, a business offering creative services in collaboration with cultural organizations, educational institutions and government agencies. Wookey Works creates platforms of exchange and interaction between artists, institutions and cultural organizations in the UK and the US. Its mission is to contribute to the cultural landscape and to promote dance as a valuable art form. Parallel to her creative and professional practice, Wookey writes about economy, labor and value in the arts. She is founding director of reDANCE and a square dance caller.

Training the Senses

The 2017 season for our Training the Senses Program features a wide array of topics and experts. We explore ways to measure space and our environment, by hearing, movement, and mixing our senses. The series encompasses plant and animal sensing sessions with Natasha Myers, Thought Collider and Espen Sommer Eide, audio workshops and learned hearing by respectively David Helbich and Ana Tajadura-Jimenez, dance thinking with Sara Wookey and synesthesia insights with Jamie Ward.

Sensing nature

3rd May, 7pm · Speakers: Natasha Myers, Espen Sommer Eide & Thought Collider
Location: De Brandweerkantine, Capucijnenstraat 21, Maastricht
We tend to think of nature as something that is outside of us, as a broad entanglement of things that silently undergoes our actions and observation. But what if we see ourselves as part of an environment that senses us as much as it is sensed by us? Scientists increasingly find proof of communication networks, relations between plants, animals and humans that only few of us are aware of.

Mixing the senses

21st June, 7 pm
Speakers: Jamie Ward
Location: De Brandweerkantine
People with synesthesia experience the ordinary world in extraordinary ways. To some, each letter has its own distinct color; to others, images are directly related to taste, the sequence of numbers glide through space, or music is an animated spectacle. Scientists are struggling to find a good explanation for this mixing of the senses, which may help for instance to discover in exploring ways in which blind people can be made to see again by using their other senses.

Training the Senses 2017 is organised by:
Valentijn Byvanck Jessica Capra Zaida Violan