David Toop & Ania Psenitsnikova: Exploring Soundbody Workshop

A three-day workshop followed by a concert.Soundbody is a resonant, listening being, investigating its inner and external spaces, experimenting with sensory potential, physicality and stillness. We will explore the potentiality of micro-sound and non-intentional movement as an ecological approach to being in space. The first step is to listen intensively but the act of listening will be extended beyond hearing through the ears to the whole body. Through exercises in movement, attention, awareness, breathing, inner listening and sound improvisations we will develop a listening that intensifies and tunes in our experience of being in relation to space, to our own body and to each other.///Schedule20th June: 17:00–21:0021st June: 11:00–15:0022nd June: 14:00–18:00 + concert 19:30–21:30Requirements:Comfortable, non-restrictive clothes for movement. Also bring water. Materials/objects with which to make sound. Please bring simple objects.The workshop is held in English.On day 2 we will work with foraged objects. On day 1, introduction to improvisation, we can also work with devices of your choice, but electronic instruments must be self-contained with their own amplification. On day 3, the workshop will be followed by an evening concert including both the participants and the Moreskinsound duo (David Toop and Ania Psenitsnikova).Price:1 day: Regular – 950 CZK / 38 €, students and those in need – 450 CZK / 18 €3 days: Regular – 2500 CZK / 100 €, students and those in need – 1250 CZK / 50 €Concert – recommended contribution of 200 CZKReservations can be made at booking@punctum.cz///The workshop is held by Moreskinsound, a duo of musician and writer David Toop and butoh dancer Ania Psenitsnikova. They explore extremes of stillness, working with space, presence and the intensity of punctuated silence and its impact on bodies. Their work encompasses live performance using found objects and instruments, flutes, aerial butoh and inactions – events in remarkable spaces, in sea caves, clifftops and alien landscapes.Ania Psenitsnikova is a visual and performance artist and curator. Born in Estonia, she has travelled and learned butoh dance with Flavia Ghisalberti, Moeno Wakamatsu, Masaki Iwana and Daisuke Yoshimoto. Studying music independently since 1996, she has worked as an aerial butoh artist since 2011. Between 2015 to the present she has collaborated with Dasha Apakhonchich, co-curating seven exhibitions in four countries, exploring the censorship phenomenon and participating in performances and events, include the Party of the Dead project, and the Grow and Decay ecological festival in Estonia. Their exhibition, One Can Not Be Too Careful, Feminist Edition, was nominated for the best visual art award in Brighton Festival, 2018.David Toop is a musician, writer and curator. He has been developing a practice that crosses boundaries of sound, listening, music and materials since 1970. This encompasses improvised music performance, writing, electronic sound, field recording, exhibition curating, sound art installations and opera. Artists he has performed