SCHOOL OF ART AND HUMAN MOVEMENT
WHAT IS THE AXIS SYLLABUS© ?
Initiated by dancer, choreographer and teacher Frey Faust, and supported by a meshwork of international researchers, the
Axis Syllabus© is a field of study of the human body in movement, based not on a specific aesthetic, but on scientific databases.
Elementary physics, physiology, anatomy, biomechanics... the AS is compiled and updated in a pragmatic and synthetic way, all information useful to the investigation of human movement. AS teachers and researchers pass on this knowledge by creating pedagogical tools designed to develop in their students the spirit of inquiry that leads to autonomous learning and responsibility for their own bodies and health. From this intention stems adaptability, the sequential harmony of efforts, the sensitive use of the elasticity of our tissues, respect for and integrity of the joints, and the development within ourselves of the physical forces implicit in the curves and spirals that make up our architecture in motion.
The Exosquelette is an oasis for the Axis Syllabus©. This year
(2024-2025), it will host seven weekend courses, three
week-long intensive sessions, weekly Thursday morning classes, and in August it will host the “Nomadic College”, an international gathering
of the Axis Syllabus Research Meshwork.
TRAINING PROGRAM
7 WEEK-END Workshops
with Jérôme d’Orso
Dancing has the advantage
that it can be done at the
speedof falling bodies.
It's a way of following the flow, partially chosen, between the quest for meaning, or sensation, and opportunism, the search
for trajectories of least friction.
It's also about realizing
our unheard-of nature,
Nature, space, kinetics,
through the prism
of the Axis Syllabus©.
This Axis Syllabus meeting and training cycle is for all those who wish to enter into a profound complicity with their body and their perceptions. It could be for dance, for health, or to enrich our knowledge of the living within ourselves.
The 7-part program is designed to embrace the principles and reading models contained in our reference tool: the Axis Syllabus. The themes of each workshop, in their practical, contextual orientation, can be approached in isolation, or together as a coherent whole.
Each session will be an opportunity for theoretical sharing, personal and collective exploration, and practical training.
Let's hope that by integrating the fundamental parameters of our inner nature and the conditions of life on earth, we can find spatiality, lightness, rhythm and ease, in everyday life or in the technical virtuosity of all our dances.
KINETIC SUPER-VISIONS - Axis Syllabus intensive
TRILOGY 2025-2026
As a systemic approach to the body in movement, the Axis Syllabus© integrates, in rhizome, in immanence, all disciplines linked to the human body: anatomy, biomechanics, medicine, health, evolution...; those linked to movement, kinetic physics; and all somatic approaches.
The “Kinetic Super-Visions” are laboratory sessions led by the pioneers of AS, where we dive into the perceptive and inhabit our bodies with the super theoretical and practical insights of the Axis Syllabus©.
The cycle is aimed at all those interested in movement, and who wish to develop specific and precise ways of looking at dance and their own bodies. It can be for the development of one's potential, for one's health, if one is a dancer, actor, acrobat, amateur artist, or even a craftsman or worker, or it can be to accompany others, if one is a therapist, or a guide to somatic practices.
The three courses are structured around three themes: matter / phenomena / synergies.
Each can be approached in isolation, or together as a whole. Our days are devoted to moments of assimilation and collective sharing. The research is situated between analytical observation (contemplation and visualization), sensitive experience (perceptive, kinaesthetic), contextual application (from everyday life to technical sophistication via all possible appropriations), and artistic creativity.
Kinetic Super-Visions" is an opportunity to discover the extent to which our body, in our world, is a perfectly integrating ecosystem, and possesses the potential for prodigy.
DANCE and AXIS SYLLABUS - weekly classes
with Elsa Brion or Jerome d'Orso
Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. - Weekly classes
"Dance is one of the oldest and most direct forms of human expression. Through physical presence, movement, the ability to make tangible the dimensions of space and time, dance touches the deepest levels of human existence" Sasha Waltz
The Axis Syllabus brings together poetry and science. It's a study in insight you, like a call for life.
Elsa and Jérôme propose a space of exploration around bodies in movement on a chosen theme.
Research time, choreographic motifs and experimentation in partnership.
Undulating, rolling, sliding, crawling, jumping, running... a source of study, joy and invention.
Photo: Barbara Calì
PRIVATE SESSIONS
Mentor : Jérôme d’Orso
The Axis Syllabus©, as a systemic approach to the body in movement, offers a diagnosis of a body that moves.
How do we walk?
How do we carry our children, our tools?
Do we suffer from recurring pain?
Are our postural patterns beneficial to our health?
By individual appointment, I propose to answer your questions about your body, and, together, to look for strategies which, in your work (artistic or not) or in your
daily life, will enable you to improve your relationship with your body toward relieve, or more appreciation.
Price per session : 30 euros/h
Book an appointment : artsfelus@gmail.com
THE NOMADIC COLLEGE
Over-prepared, under-structured
Conscientiousness towards commitments, self organization and voluntary participation.
As below, so above.
4 weeks, in August,
the Nomadic College
takes root at at the Exosquelette.
The NC is an itinerant school for the principle study
and application of The Axis Syllabusⓒ.
Rather than a festival, or celebration, The NC
is what it's title suggests, an intensive study context.
The study of the AS is meant to empower the individual to defend and promote their own health and the health of those they might be responsible for, in other
words to sponsor responsible autonomy. Conscientiousness towards commitments, self organization and voluntary participation.
As below, so above.
All details here : nomadiccollege.org
Photo: Barbara Calì