The Knowing Body
Credits: 3
Elective course for Second Year
Iris Erez
Iris Erez is a choreographer, dancer, teacher, and mother of two sons. She is a member of the Choreographers' Association and a partner in the improvisation group Octet. Her works are performed in Israel and around the world. In her works, she seeks to touch on political and public issues through the personal body, exploring the mutual influences between them and the connection between the technological and the physical. Iris teaches technique and improvisation and guides creative processes at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, as well as in private and international settings.
The body holds within it immense knowledge about itself and the world. Through the body we learned about the world, yet at some point, we lost our connection to it. This course seeks to restore the basic connection between us and our bodies, and through it to the world; to recognize the body as a chest of treasures and portal to lost spaces. The course will move through developing technique for movement, posture, spacing, and partnering, and to opening creative channels of movement, presence, consciousness and emotion.
This lesson includes touch and physical guidance.
