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It is a proven fact that, we've increased our knowledge about nature specially on microscopic world because the pandemic. The knowledge was accompanied by a fear. In the performance we use the laboratory technics to showed the beautiful aspects of micro organisms and try to talk about the organisms by an artistic language to decrease the fear and respect our biological values. In the project, the performers saw many images from their cells that were pictured in a medical lab form their membrane cells. The Performers saw their cells movements, forms, colors and composition, and inspired from the images and by connecting the images to their background presented acts, dances and songs; in addition, based on the cognitive experience and as a combination of the performative material produces in the rehearsal, we designed a simple dance in an improvisation creative process. 1. The performance in Kargah Theater of Bandar Abbas produced for the 39th Fadjr International Theater Festival in Tehran at 2020 as a reaction to the Covid-19 crisis. 2. The report was presented in the APARN 2024 conference and the Artistic Research Symposium of Sweden 2024

RELAY is a three-year EU-funded research project supported by the ERASMUS+ programme „Cooperation Partnerships" that focuses on developing the artistic and educational fields of choreography, dance and music. The concept that gave our project its name – RELAY – is based on deep trust in the transiting and transmissive foundation of both artistic production and knowledge development. RELAY underscores a fluid and processual element in the intersection of art and education. Not only does the actual production and development of knowledge and artworks depend on collective – and therefore transmissive – efforts, but the future life of those productions depends on how they are shared. For example, a dance technique only lives through those who practice it. A piece of music is passed on (through ear, instrument technology, or score) between practitioners, producers, and listeners. Every hand-over gives the possibility for development, re-iterations, and productive misunderstandings. The exposition here gathers the findings, reflections and insights into the principles and methods of RELAY as well as obstacles, hiccups and (creative) failures as a work-in-progress. Authors and Contributors: Ana Papdima, Andreea Duta, Catalin Cretu, Evita Tsakalaki, Jan Burkhardt, Konstantinos Tsakirelis, Laura Lang De Negri, Maia Means, Max Wallmeier, Mihai Mihalcea, Nadine Kribbe, Rasmus Ölme, Sergej Maingardt, Stella Malliaraki, Vera Sander

Dorsal Practices is a collaboration between choreographer Katrina Brown and writer-artist Emma Cocker, for exploring the notion of dorsality in relation to how we as moving bodies orient to self, others, world. How does the cultivation of a back-oriented awareness and attitude shape and inform our experience of being-in-the-world? A dorsal orientation foregrounds an active letting go, releasing, even de-privileging, of predominant social habits of uprightness and frontality — the head-oriented, sight-oriented, forward-facing, future-leaning tendencies of a culture intent on grasping a sense of the world through naming and control. Rather than a mode of withdrawal, of turning one’s back, how might a back-leaning orientation support a more open and receptive ethics of relation? How are experiences of listening, voicing, thinking, shaped differently through this tilt of awareness and attention towards the back?

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Gaia's hair - intruding thoughts (Trailer) This is the trailer for the film performance by Fernanda Branco: Gaia's hair-intruding thoughts Norway, 2020 45 min Images by Margarida Paiva The entire film can be seen on Vimeo with a requested password.