AIRMW Arts Intiatives presents: "Listening into Songs in Bodies " with Aine Nakamura

AIRMW Arts Intiatives presents: a movement workshop "Listening into Songs in Bodies " with Aine Nakamura.

This will be a performance workshop of body/movement and voice, paying attention to sensing and listening bodies.

Songs in bodies are constantly changing because senses and feelings in bodies are changing and as inner and outer change their shapes in relations and through experiences. Do these shape changes impact details in art-making? How can these impacts be translated again through bodies and keep changing for potentialities. Sometimes we might want to trust the senses of soles of our feet. The feet that have walked the soil. The feet that we used to lick as babies. Sometimes we might want to give a new meaning to our fingers as if they are flower petals or guiding lights.

Voice is now free from how they should sound but emitted out simply from a membrane. Words are what we choose and we would like to listen to them. What are the edges and where are the grounding, how much can we explore, and how can we transform freely.

We would listen to and explore these questions through a performance workshop of body/movement and voice. We may further use shapes and words.

*Please bring two sheets of paper or notebook (something to write on) and pencil/pen (something to write with).

*No experience is required.

For tickets visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/listening-into-songs-in-bodies-tickets-2001827316391?aff=oddtdtcreator

Aine Nakamura is a performer of voice and body, poet, and artist. She focuses on the potentialities of an injured voice and the listening and sensing bodies. She often writes words and considers shapes as if her throat is a membrane and each body part is a shape, phenomenon among worldly phenomena, in relations. Through her practice, while aiming to be a vessel, she understands about herself and pursues meanings of lines, seeing and connecting.

She is currently based in the Bay Area/East Bay, and presents works locally and internationally. Her recent works include solo performance "Breath in this World" premiered at Indexical in SC, which continues to evolve at ZK/U Berlin, Baiju Theater near Beijing, UrBANGUILD in Kyoto, and will be presented on October 24th for AIRMW at Elastic Arts; month-long site-specific exhibition and performance project "hands on tape," presented at The Lab in SF; solo performance "Under an Unnamed Flower" during an invitation to the 50th International Theatre Festival at the Venice Biennale; solo multiple performance project "Circle hasu We plant seeds in the spring of mountains," presented at Theatertreffen at Berliner Festspiele after its premiere at the Gallatin Galleries in NY. She also engages in listening in relation to wounds and soul work, which resulted in her performance at The Listening Biennial Singapore. She is also a committed collaborator and improviser. Through collaborations, she develops her approach to attunement, spaces and listening. 2025 Commissioned Artist of The Lab. Awardee of the Venice Biennale 2022 Site-Specific Performance Grant, the Fulbright Fellowship (2021-2022, Berlin), The Leo Bronstein Homage Award from NYU (2020), and The Honorable Mention Award for the 2020 Pauline Oliveros New Genre Prize.

She has given workshops at Baiju Theatre, UC Berkeley, The Listening Biennial and LASALLE College of the Arts, Meiji University, University of Göttingen, and Berliner Festspiele.