What can dance do?

What does dance do? 

 

What can dancing do? 

What does dancing do? 

 

How can dancing do? 

How does dancing do? 

 

How are moved by movement? 

WHAT CAN SILENCE DO?












How can silence do? 

From which position I set the question? 

What do we do when we do art?

What are the relations within this?  

When is the body in question?

Who's body is being questioned? 

How to answer these questions? Go around?How do we operate in questioning?How do we set a question?

Are these questions to be answered?Why to ask a question if there is no answer? To stimulate, to create,to cause, to find, to get lost, to ______?

Can questions be let unsaid? Unanswered? Unnamed? How to deal, feel and fall in love in uncertainty?

 

"My words must be as slow, as

new, as single, as tentative as the steps I took going down the path away from the house, between the

dark--branched, tall dancers motionless against the winter shining" (Le Guinn, Ursula (1985). She Unnames Them)

"These dichotomies are challenged in a sensitive space for thinking. Or should I say, in a thinking space of sensing? Maybe in a space for sensing thinking? Perhaps the question might be: after all, what is to think in our days? Or still, and very objectively, how can we renew our modes of thinking (and therefore of acting) to generate a less fascistic world?" (Fabião, Eleanora. (2019) The Use of Scrapbooks: A proposal)

 

How can dancing, as a felt and sensed practice,  

 

explore the role of touch as a form of nonverbal conversation and connection? 

 

 

 

 

 

How do we listen, learn and loose the other through touch?  

 

When do we ask,

and when

do we go

without asking?


Process the why and the how - AND THEN WHAT?

What happens when the world collapses?



What happens when the worlds collide?

 

What happens when the world stays the same?

What kind of art remains?

 

Where does dance go? 

How do we process 

the past,  

the present  

and the future

while challenging the narratives?

HOW DOES A QUESTION FEEL IN THE BODY? WHY? WHERE?

When is dance NOT political? 

Is it possible to ask unrelated or unnessesary questions? Who defines what is relevant for the study? 

What is the intention? 

How has and will artistic approaches foster healing and facilitate personal transformation for


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How can choreographic practices be alive,  inclusive and create spaces where diverse nuances, conditions, perspectives and experiences can be celebrated and represented? 

 

Refrences

 

Until where can we explore the dynamics of intimacy? 

 

 Until where can we explore the dynamics of intimacy  and the transformative potential of touch? 

 





 
Until where can we explore the dynamics of intimacy  and the transformative potential of touchas a means of accessing alternative realities,  

meeting in the middle and expanding our consciousness?  

 

 

Until where can we explore the dynamics of intimacy  and the transformative potential of touchas a means of accessing alternative realities,meeting in the middle and expanding our consciousness while navigating the boundaries of consent, power and vulnerability?

How to host a space of freedom?

 

 

 

  

 

...Can freedom be hosted?

"Like painting, the written word fixes living things in time and space, giving them the appearance of animation although they are abstracted from life and incable of change" (Carson, A. (1998). Eros the bittersweet.)