{"id":2617,"date":"2026-09-28T10:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/?p=2617"},"modified":"2026-08-31T10:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T08:53:19","slug":"finding-your-own-voice-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/?p=2617","title":{"rendered":"Finding Your Own Voice – Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Archival material as a source for observation and artistic creation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Type:<\/strong> Workshop Proposal \u00b7 Heritage \/ Artistic Practice
Status:<\/strong> Available for booking
Context:<\/strong> Dance archives, heritage projects, artistic education and training
Role:<\/strong> Workshop Leader \u00b7 Artist \u00b7 Methodological Mentor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Look at the archives. Find what moves you in it. Create.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This workshop begins with an encounter with dance heritage. Archival photographs, documents, costumes, gestures and other visual traces are approached not only as historical evidence, but as material for observation and artistic inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participants look for elements that can be understood through dance: posture, gesture, rhythm, space, relationship, atmosphere, or movement quality. These observations can then become impulses for their own movement vocabulary and creative work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYour Voice\u201d has two related meanings. It can mean finding words for what one sees, experiences and wants to communicate. It can also mean finding a movement vocabulary through which personal concerns can be expressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The workshop therefore moves between seeing, articulating, moving and creating<\/strong>. Historical material is not reproduced as an answer; it becomes a starting point for contemporary work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing on Ricardo Viviani’s experience as a choreographer, educator and Oral Historian, the workshop combines artistic practice with archival observation. Exercises, discussion, feedback and creative assignments allow participants to test what they discover through the body as well as through language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The format can be adapted to universities, dance schools, artistic training programmes, archives, museums and heritage projects. It may be developed around a particular collection, local history or thematic archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Archival Material:<\/strong>
\nWorkshop proposal; related visual-history material; examples from Euphorie und Aufbruch<\/em>; selected archival images and documents used as artistic impulses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Post Scriptum \u2014 30 August 2026<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This proposal develops from the experience of Finding Your Own Voice<\/em> within the Euphorie und Aufbruch<\/em> project, where archival material was used as an impulse for observation and contemporary choreographic work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contribution \/ Ertrag:<\/strong>
\nThe workshop brings archival observation into direct contact with artistic practice. Participants work with historical material as a source for visual and embodied inquiry and develop their own movement and verbal vocabularies in response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assessment \/ Relevanz:<\/strong>
\nThe proposal is relevant to forms of heritage work that seek to move beyond preservation and interpretation toward active artistic engagement. Its particular focus is the relationship between visual observation, embodied understanding, verbal articulation and contemporary creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keywords:<\/strong>
\nDance Heritage; Archival Activation; Visual Analysis; Embodied Knowledge; Movement Vocabulary; Artistic Research; Composition; Communication; Dance Education; Visual Culture; Contemporary Creation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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External Links<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Euphorie und Aufbruch<\/em> \u2014 Project Information<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Euphorie und Aufbruch<\/em> \u2014 Timeline<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Internal Links<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Finding Your Own Voice<\/em> \u2014 WS 2020\/21<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Euphorie und Aufbruch \u2014 A History of Dance 1959\u20131969<\/em><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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\nArchival Note:<\/strong> This page forms part of an ongoing personal archive documenting Ricardo Viviani’s professional work and activities over more than four decades. Names and other personal information appear where relevant to the documented work or collaboration. If you believe that information concerning you has been published incorrectly or should be reconsidered, please contact me<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n\n\n

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Type: Workshop Proposal \u00b7 Heritage \/ Artistic PracticeStatus: Available for bookingContext: Dance archives, heritage projects, artistic education and trainingRole: Workshop Leader \u00b7 Artist \u00b7 Methodological Mentor Look at the archives. Find what moves you in it. Create. This workshop begins with an encounter with dance heritage. Archival photographs, documents, costumes, gestures and other visual traces … <\/p>\n

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