ATE Methodology - practice workshop
ATE Methodology - practice workshop
Dates: 6-7 December 10:30-13:00h. Price: 40€/2 days, 25€/1 day - payment via link
Questions: 4bidgallery@gmail.com
“Accountable temporary expedients” (ATE) is a choreographic methodology developed by Irina Baldini, that uses task-based improvisation to challenge dancers’ ability to handle confusion and uncertainty. An “expedient” is a practical tool for a specific situation, “temporary” means it’s not a permanent solution, and “accountable” means the practitioner considers the consequences of the action within that context. ATE is used to provoke an embodied, intuitive, and responsive form of performance.
Key principles of Accountable Temporary Expedients Use of movement and voice: The practice involves integrating dancing with vocalising as part of the exploration, treating the "fleetingness of sound" as a material to engage with.
Improvisation and Composition: ATE is a tool for both improvising in the moment and for choreographing future work. We will make use of the ATE card deck, a practical tool complementing the methodology in use.
Internal and external stimuli: attending to the body's internal signals by focusing in particular on the organs of the torso, as well as the performer's environment. Embracing Confusion: The practice challenges dancers to attend to multiple stimuli at once and encourages embracing doubt and uncertainty to foster new decision-making and “emergent embodied cognition”.
Bio
Irina Baldini is an Amsterdam-based Finnish-Italian dancer, choreographer, and artist-researcher known for her site-responsive work and interest in ephemeral experiences. With an extensive background in classical and contemporary dance (Laban Centre, ArtEZ University), conservation, and printmaking, she integrates diverse mediums in her practice.
Baldini has performed and choreographed internationally at venues including the Venice Biennale and Tate Britain. Her work often utilizes improvisation and a "not-aboutness" approach, focusing on the immediacy of sensation.
As a curator, she co-founded the Amsterdam non-profit 4bid Gallery, a platform for experimental encounters between visual and performance arts. She also initiated the performance events Highs & Lows and the body-focused B. base program.
Baldini is an active educator and has authored three books, including Low Content (2018) and Kelder (2020), which reflect on change, performance, and metamorphosis and Accountable Temporary Expedients (2021). Beyond her work in dance and visual arts, she plays bass guitar and is lead vocalist in a punk-HC band.
