Trance Zones: The Body Vanishes with Agus Riyanto and Tony Yap

The Body Vanishes: This practice of dance in a specific trance zone is an exercise of destruction of the ego. This workshop is a combination of the Javanese bull- trance, Bantengan, and experiments in a framework for abstract (inner) choreography.

It is a personal dance that defines genres and structures from your own cultural heritage to find new rules for danceforms. Focusing on the abandonment of the ego, participants engage in 'Dionysian' dance to overcome stagnations.

This workshop is open to all who are interested in drawing inspiration from a spectrum of trances zones. Led by experienced trance practitioners Agus Riyanto and Tony Yap.

“ ... full expression of the spirit through the body, leading to a ‘trans-lumination’ in performance in which ‘the body vanishes, burns, and the spectator sees only a series of visible impulses.”

– Jerzy Grotowski