WORKSHOPS
creative expression through sound, movement and collectively shared processes
Noise orchestra

The Noise Orchestra workshop is designed for children of 9-14 years old. Participants are suggested to create musical instruments from everyday and found objects. After that they are invited to come together as an orchestra and play an improvisation. The performance is recorded in order to be played back to the participants after the event. Children are encouraged to listen to the recording and reflect on the experience. The discussion is facilitated allowing to increase awareness about both personal experience and group's dynamics.


Found movement
photo by Ksenia Telepova
The workshop addresses two aspects of human experience: the patterned, algorithmic; and the explorative, creative. Participants are engaged in transitioning between these aspects though collectively shared movement practice. Each participant is invited to find his or her own patterned, routine movement or gesture and share it with the group by repeating it multiple times. Everybody in the group joins this person by copying and mirroring the movement. In the course of the workshop, the facilitator gives various cues suggesting to make changes. Eventually, the initial pattern is transformed into something else. It is also amplified by collectively shared processes that allow to re-imagine and re-pattern automatized, habitual gestures and movements. Simultaneously, the workshop facilitates in repatterning group’s dynamics by offering participants the connect and relate in a non-verbal, somatic, playful way.

photo by Ksenia Telepova