INSIDE OUT, OUTSIDE IN
These four days will be composed within elements of contact improvisation, and performative site-spesific research outside of the studio.
Every day we will study and explore CI, researching underlying physical principles of contact improvisation.
We approach contact with curiosity, allowing ourselves to go to unknown places and pathways. Discover something new.
We will move through improvisation scores and structures, which are giving us permission to explore performing.
Witnessing. Seeing and being seen.
We will go outside, to the streets, to the parks, to the forest – and explore our being and our movement in relation with surroundings.
We approach Contact Improvisation with explorative curiosity. Paying attention to details; fine-tuning and listening, embodying specific qualities and tones. We will explore the dance as a continuous fall from off balance into temporary balance. The “Small dance“ manifests as the constant development of falling and catching. „Rolling point“ can be seen just as falling into a next fall in each other’s landscapes.
Our breathing cycle can be viewed as a physical metaphor for „Rising, suspending, falling, and catching.“
Falling is an endless source of fascination and curiosity. How are our bodies organising themselves in order to fall into space?
Yet, how can we see that fall also as metaphore ? How do our bodies know the next move ?
What if I don´t go with the first choice ? Thinking, improvising body.
We will research different movement principles in our solo bodies from the inside out – applying those discoveries into contact.
The material will alternate from solos and duets into trios and group scores.
We will balance out technical input and set material with explorative exercises, scores, and experiential anatomy.
We wish to offer enough time and space to integrate and digest the given techniques and principles into our own experiential dance.
With this shared toolkit we will move into structured scores in the studio before we take our explorations into outdoor spaces. In this way, when we encounter new environments we have a clear frame and together hold a space where we can enjoy taking the movement research into a space of allowing to be seen and to see others. We can learn a lot about ourselves, and our dance by opening this practice to the public space.
Welcome to see and witness, welcome to be seen.