Everything that happens on stage is an act of perception. From perception our natural impulses can arise, determining the beats of our reactions. But do our actions follow our impulses?

I offer a workshop where students learn how to use non-verbal techniques to regain sensitivity of their own impulses. I  used my neuroscientific perspective to instruct the students on how to acquire the skills of slowing down the verbal impulses of the nervous system from the inside out. With these non-verbal techniques, students will acquire alternative modes of perception – moving, hearing, seeing – enabling them to tap into the subtleties of their own impulses and transform them into countless possibilities of conscious expression.

Experiences in the workshop:

• non-verbal experiences
• expansion of space
• contact to the artistic (im)material
• work with prefrontal and visual cortex
• connecting: consciousness – impulses 

 

Künstlerischer Forschung für das 2022 Sommersemester at the (Musik und Kunst Private universitat der Stadt Wien) MUK, Vienna. 

Collaborative university course taught with Univ. Prof. Steffi Hofer