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IMPRO!
即興！
Catch the Spirit of the Moment
唱入當下
即興! 將經過考驗的即興演奏技巧與「即時作曲」相結合，這種方法讓一群荷蘭即興演奏家聞名全球。你的帶領者Mark van Tongeren是一位自學成才的即興表演者，對探索自我、自我表達和團體動態充滿著極具感染力的熱情。像任何優秀的小丑一樣，他並不幼稚或天真，而是讓成年人改變他們看待世界和自我的方式，創造出全新的聲音語言、新的溝通方式，乃至新的自我表達方式……直到你開始思索：那個「自我」究竟是什麼？
— 感受
離開你的舒適圈
【時間】
11/27（週三）- 11/28（週四）
每天 10:00-17:15
【地點】
台北寶藏巖國際藝術村
臺北市中正區汀州路三段230巷底
寶藏巖聚落位於公館區，距離公館捷運站步行即可到達，地理位置十分便利。
【當日行程】
11月27日
10:00-12:30（2.5小時）
投入! 第一次即興課程
+反思! 探索即興作為一種存在與身心健康的方式
12:30-13:30（1小時）
休息
13:30-16:00（2.5小時）
我們使用的方法。遊戲、溝通、技巧
應用和測試這些方法
16:00-16:15（15分鐘）
休息
16:15-17:15（1小時）
自由即興 #1
11月28日
10:00-12:30（2.5小時）
投入! 新的即興活動
+反思! 一些答案，更多的問題，再次探索…
12:30-13:30（1小時）
休息
13:30-16:00（2.5小時）
磨練方法
如何丟失自己並重新找回自我？
新的遊戲與技巧
關於存在、存有與身心健康
16:00-16:15（15分鐘）
休息
16:15-17:15（1小時）
即興 # ∞
最終反思
活動舉辦方保有異動時間權利。
【工作坊詳細介紹】
2003年，Mark與Phil Dadson (NZ)、Makigami Koichi (JP)組成「人聲雜耍」（Vocal Acrobats）三人組到紐西蘭巡迴演出後，來到台灣。台北藝術大學的鍾明德教授給予Mark表演和工作坊的自由，並從Mark的想法中挑選了一句話來告訴他在台灣該做什麼： 「抓住當下的精神」（Catch the Spirit of the Moment）。這句話至今仍像當年一樣清晰。
如何活著、行動、創作，同時完全活在當下？如何什麼都不做，卻又什麼都做？如何學會相信某種流動會來到你的身邊，會穿過你的身體？如果根本沒有流動，而你計劃的一切都出錯了呢？因為你一開始就錯了嗎？或是因為其他人打亂了你對即興創作需要走向何處的想像？
訓練某些技巧是一回事，而且是很大的一回事。在這個兩天工作坊，我們會交替進行真正的即興創作，同時建立音樂和其他技能。了解即興是什麼和可以是什麼是另一件事。範圍幾乎是無限的。
我們將使用引人入勝的樂曲和結構，從有趣和娛樂性到挑戰性和複雜性。無論你擁有或缺乏什麼程度的經驗和信任，你都可以帶著許多新的想法和發現回家，發現當你完全沉浸在演奏中時，你還能成為什麼樣的人。讓我們認真玩樂！
【誰適合參加？】
任何人都可參加。只要你有足夠的好奇心和自信，去與他人一起唱歌、演奏、製造噪音或動作、跳舞、寫作、畫畫。
(最少 8 人，最多 16 人）
【語言】
英文以及中文即席翻譯
【帶領者介紹】
1992 年及整個 1990 年代，Mark van Tongeren 開始以音樂即興演奏家及物件劇場（object-theatre）創作者的身份演出。2000 年代，他轉向各種即興音樂，與 Fred Frith、Koichi Makigami、馬友友 和 Oorbeek 等人合作。2010 年代，他與更多舞蹈團體合作，也讓肢體表演在他自己的作品中扮演更重要的角色。到了 2020 年代，他的多元風格更加跨越音樂、文化和學科的邊界。在台灣，他是三人組合 ALLSYMT 的一員，與原住民、華人及國外藝術家合作演出，並領導他的聲樂實驗團體漪渦魚
(IUooUI)。他在台北每週舉辦的聲樂瑜珈課程，是一種有引導的、直覺的即興。
【支持團隊】
本次工作坊還由即席翻譯兼共同籌辦者者李紀辰協助，她負責聲音工作坊的翻譯，並受聲音的啟發，繼續探索相關領域；以及行政助理張惜音協辦，本身也是聲音療癒師，熱愛唱歌和創作音樂。
報名、詢問工作坊詳情，歡迎聯繫惜音 hsiyin724@gmail.com
或直接透過手機聯繫Mark 0910382749
【報名費用】
全額費用：9500元
到10月20日
超早鳥優惠 / 75折：7125元
學生；經濟方面需要支持的藝術家（需提供證明） / 75折：7125元
到11月6日
早鳥優惠 / 85折：8075元
TOSA會員 / 年長者 85折：8075元
雙人報名 / 早鳥外加5折：7600元
舊生優惠 / 7折：6650元
11月6日之後
原價 / 9500元
雙人報名 / 95折：每人9025元
【報名方式】
1.請透過此連結報名
https://form.jotform.com/242682423145353
2.確認報名費用後，請在三天內進行學費匯款
3.匯款完成後，請聯絡
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4.經確認款項後，將在五天內發出報名確認信件，也會與您確認行程詳細事宜
【取消政策】
我們盡量保持合理的價格。如果您在課程開始前31至60天取消報名，我們將退還90%的費用。如果您在課程開始前15至30天取消報名，我們將退還50%的費用。如果您在課程開始前14天內取消報名，我們將退還20%的費用。如果您找人代替參加，我們只收取10%的行政費。
【責任歸屬】
報名此工作坊代表你了解:
1) 工作坊可能會有劇烈肢體運動，引起身體跟心理的衝擊。
2) 工作坊中的每項活動都不是強制性的，你必須衡量自身狀況(身體/心理/情緒)來決定要不要參與。
3) 你會對自己的身體及心理狀態負責，主辦方不承擔任何相關的傷害、損失及賠償責任。
PROGRAM IN SHORT
Impro! blends tried and tested techniques of improvisation with instant composing, a method that lent a group of Dutch improvisers worldwide fame. Your guide Mark van Tongeren is a self-taught improviser with a contagious passion for charting new territories of self-, self-expression and group dynamics. Like any good clown, he is not childish or naïve; he lets adults change the way they see the world and themselves, by creating new languages of sound, new ways of communicating, new ways of being yourself … until you wonder: what is that self?
feel
Leave your comfort zone
DATES AND TIMES
Wednesday + Thursday November 27 + 28
10:00-17:15
11/27（週三）- 11/28（週四）
10:00-17:15
LOCATION
TREASURE HILL VILLAGE
台北寶藏巖國際藝術村
Treasure Hill village is conveniently located in the Gongguan area in walking distance from the MRT Gongguan.
TIME SCHEDULE AND CONTENT
November 27
10:00-12:30
Dive! First improv sessions
Reflect! Explorations into improv as a mode of being and well-being
12:30-13:30 – – – break
13:30-16:00
Methods we use. Games, communications, skills.
Applying and testing methods.
16:00-16:15 – – – break
16:15-17:15
The Jam #1.
November 28
10:00-12:30
Dive! New improv sessions
Reflect! Some answers. Many more questions.
Dive again….
12:30-13:30 – – – break
13:30-16:00
Sharpening Methods. How to lose and find yourself again?
New games and skills.
About modes of existence, being, well-being.
16:00-16:15 – – – break
16:15-17:15
Jam # ∞
Final reflections.
We keep the right to make changes to the time schedule.
FULL DESCRIPTION
Mark arrived on Taiwan’s shores in 2003, coming back from a tour in New Zealand as the Vocal Acrobats – a trio with Phil Dadson (NZ) and Makigami Koichi (JP). TNUA’s professor Chung Mingder gave Mark carte blanche for performances and workshops, and picked one phrase out of Mark’s ideas about what to do in Taiwan: “Catch the Spirit of the Moment”. That phrase still stands as clearly as it did back then. How to live, act, create while being completely in the present? How to do nothing, and yet everything? How to learn to trust that a certain flow will come to you, will move through you? What if there is no flow at all and everything you planned goes wrong? Because you started out wrong? Or because someone else messes up your imagination of where this improvisation needs to go?
Training certain skills is one thing, and a big one at that. We will alternate true improvisation with building musical and other skills. Understanding what improvising is and can be is another. The scope is virtually endless.
We will work with fascinating pieces and structures, ranging from fun and entertaining to challenging and complex. No matter what level of experience and trust you have / you lack, you will be able to go home with plenty of new ideas and discoveries of who else you can be when you indulge yourself completely in playing. Serious playing!
FOR WHOM?
Anyone who is curious and confident enough to sing or to play or to make noise or to move-dance-write-draw with others.
(Minimum: 8, maximum:16 people)
LANGUAGES
English + Chinese
YOUR TEACHER
In 1992 and throughout the 1990s, Mark van Tongeren began performing as a musical improviser and bricoleur in object-theatre. In the 2000s he switched to all kinds of musical improv, playing with the likes of Fred Frith, Koichi Makigami, Yo-Yo Ma and Oorbeek. The 2010s saw more dance collaborations and also a greater role for the performing body in his own work. In the 2020s, his polystylistic approach transcends musical, cultural and disciplinary borders ever more. In Taiwan, he is part of trio ALLSYMT, performs with indigenous, Chinese and foreign artists and leads his vocal experimental group IUooUI. His weekly Voice Yoga class in Taipei is a guided, intuitive improv-session of sorts.
SUPPORTING TEAM & CONTACT
This workshop is also brought to you by interpreter and co-organiser Chi Chen Lee, who interprets for sound workshops and is inspired by sound to continue the exploration; by administrative assistant Hsi-Yin Chang, who is also a sound and wellness practitioner, with an interest in singing and creating music.
▲ For any questions about the contents and registration, please contact Hsi Yin (speaks Chinese and English):
Email: hsiyin724@gmail.com Line ID: hsiyinchang
or Mark: 0910382749
PRICES
Full price 9500
Up to Sunday October 20
Super Early Bird / 25% off 7125
Students & poor Struggling
artist (with proof) / 25% off 7125
Up to Wednesday November 6
Early Bird / 15% off 8075
TOSA members & seniors / 15% off 8075
Bring a friend / 5% off each 7600
Old students / 30% off 6650
After November 6:
Full price 9500
Bring a friend / 5% off each 9025
REGISTRATION and PAYMENT
- Sign up through this form: https://form.jotform.com/242612129392353
- Make a transfer within 3 days and contact Hsi-Yin via email (hsiyin724@gmail.com)
- We will confirm with you within 5 working days that you have completed the registration!
Make a transfer within 3 days to:
Bank code: 822
Name of bank: China Trust
Beneficiary: Mark Christiaan van Tongeren
Account number: 163540306745
CANCELLATION POLICY
We try to keep prices reasonable. we will return 90% of the fee if you cancel 31 – 60 days prior to the workshop.
We will return 50% of the fee if you cancel 30 – 15 days prior to the workshop.
We will return 20% of the fee if you cancel within 14 days prior to the workshop.
If you find a substitute for your spot, we will keep 10% of the administration fee.
DISCLAIMER
By signing up you automatically acknowledge your understanding that this workshop may involve potentially disrupting body-work and emotionally charged sessions with a deep impact on your well-being. It is understood that you yourself best know of any risks (physical, emotional, psychological) and that there is no pressure or obligation to do each and every exercise.
