Workshop

Listening Bodies

Anika Edström Kawaji

Dates: Saturday 09 May, 11:00; Saturday 09 May, 15:00
Duration: 120 min.
Language: English, with Dutch translation.
Reservation: This is a workshop with limited capacity. Please reserve your spot when purchasing your ticket.

This workshop is part of a research project called Listening Bodies.

At its heart, Listening Bodies is a collaborative exploration of collective worldbuilding through dialogue, imagination, and materiality—a practice of shared agency that fosters spaces for multiple narratives to coexist.

During our time together, we will collectively build clay objects. Hands and conversations will intermingle, drifting in and out of the activity. This is an exploration of how dialogues in different mediums—tactile and verbal—interact with one another. The traces of your interactions will be embedded in the clay, while the verbal exchanges will be preserved through sound.

As a participant, I would like to ask for your consent to audio-record the session.

The collective works created during this workshop will be showcased at the festival.

This project is supported by

Anika Edström Kawaji

Anika Edström Kawaji is a Swedish-Japanese dancer, performer and choreographer. She studied at P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels) 2013 - 2016. After graduating she worked as a performer at Rosas/Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker (BE) for five years on a full time basis. She took part in several performances/projects such as: Rosas Danst Rosas, Rain, Drumming, Achterland, Bartók/Beethoven/Schönberg, The Dark Red Research Project and the performance installation: Brancusi (Bozar, Brussels). Since 2020, she has collaborated with Fieldworks/Heine Avdal & Yukiko Shinozaki (BE/JP/NO), Robin Jonsson (SE), Wee/Francesco Scavetta (SE/NO), Femke Gyselinck (BE), Karoliina Loimaala (FI), among others.

She is besides this developing her own work together with artists mainly based in Brussels and Stockholm. She is also part of the Brussels-based collective platform Y-Collective, which creates and arranges spaces for exchanges between artists and young people in Brussels.

Anika has been teaching and giving workshops in places such as: Kulturhuset Möbeln (Tierp, SE), The Royal Swedish Ballet School (Stockholm, SE), PRODA (Bergen, NO), Dans Haus Academy (Milano, IT), Shanghai International Dance Centre (Shanghai, CN), Women’s College of Physical Education (Tokyo, JP) and Architanz (Tokyo, JP).