Workshop with Gaëtan Rusquet
About the Workshop
Gaëtan Rusquet invites you to a workshop centered around the themes of work, pleasure, and care. The workshop will delve into the nuanced aspects of touch – both the act of touching and being touched – exploring the realms of being covered and naked, and addressing the various boundaries associated with intimacy, desire, and personal limits.
The artist will introduce performative tools inspired by ecosexual feminism, Osho techniques, and tantra. These tools will take the form of collective exercises, dynamic and guided meditations, death and care rituals (including the act of washing a body), and the expressive power of sounding and singing. Additionally, participants will be introduced to tools aimed at navigating the complexities of consent.
This workshop is open to all bodies – queers, performers, sex workers, the young and old – whether your body fears touch or craves it. It is an opportunity for everyone interested in exploring touch, work, and pleasure, and for those seeking to experience intimacy and care within a ritualized framework.
The workshop will take place on 20th and 21st January from 11:00 to 18:00, and will be held in English.
Interested workshop participants will have the opportunity to take part in Gäetan Rusquet's performance Along the Way, Among Others, which will take place on 24 December at 8pm at the Glej Theatre.
Participants must be over the legal age of 18 years.
Applications are till the 17th January 2024 at the following link.
About the Performer
Gaëtan Rusquet (1984) obtained a master's degree in scenography and performance at ENSAV La Cambre, after studying applied arts at ENSAAMA, known as Olivier de Serre in Paris. He works as a performer, dancer, choreographer and scenographer, from performing arts to visual arts. In his artistic proposals, Gaëtan Rusquet looks at how one fits into a place - and what makes a medium - whether it is space, light, sound, video, movement, objects or materials, less defined. He seeks a ritualized form that brings their relationships into play, revealing their connectivity and power to act. He sees the time of performance as a moment of study and experience for the performers or the spectators. Each occurrence is thus an opportunity to request, update the stakes of the project. Like a sculptural object that constantly seeks its contours. Thus, the creation of scores creates a space for negotiating between the performer(s) and the public/witnesses.
At the same time, learning holistic care techniques feeds his practice and his approach to the body and its limits. This leads him to developing choreographic tools related to the perception of these bodies and energy fields, whether related to the body itself, or to the places and grounds in which the body is inscribed. Gaëtan Rusquet lives and works in Brussels.
The workshop is part of the festival Infinite Present, festival of performance!
Applications until 17th January: hereeeeeeeee!