Component 1.1: Personal Video Documentation

Video 3

[04/11/2024, Amsterdam, the Netherlands]

 

Concept: The skin from the back of the body is in control of the body.

Conditions: Articulations. Effort = amount of resistance. Different body parts get pulled into space. Being restricted to the lower level of the space.

Context: The past still has control over the body.


 

Video 4

[05/12/2024, Residency at The space Dance & Beyond]

 

Reframing: The possibility of moving through space with the defined movement quality. Opening the development options of the material = expanding the material


 

Video 1

[03/10/2024, Amsterdam. the Netherlands]


Physical task: Moving from the back surface of limbs, head, and pelvis. Being moved backwards from the vertebrae.

Video 2 

[29/10/2024, Amsterdam, the Netherlands]

 

Inspiration for the task: The Eyes of the Skin - Juhani Pallasmaa

Imaginary task: Exploring the backspace with the skin of the back surface of the body. The vision is in the skin, no vision of eyes can lead the movement.



 

Component 1.2: Video Documentation of other dancers

Video 4

[14/02/2025, Edvards Kurmins & Darja Turshenko, Riga, Latvia]

 

Reframing:  Putting Edvards's movement material into connection with the material of another dancer, Darja. The physical task we developed was the center that lost its function, and the imaginary task is that her legs are being dragged down. We are looking for a relationship between movement materials. I also implemented the movement material in a score to understand the potential emergence of the movement material of Edvards.


 

Video 2

[10/02/2025, Edvards Kurmins, Riga, Latvia]

 

Imaginary task:  You wake up with a head so heavy that your neck is unable to support it. You are trying to use the function of the legs (e.g., bouncing) and arms to make the head balance, but it won’t work.


 

Video 3

[10/02/2025, Edvards Kurmins, Riga, Latvia]

 

Conditions:  Create a spatial pattern on the floor that can be looped. The development of the movement material inside the pattern needs to make sense with the imaginary task. This means that it takes some time to understand that the neck has lost its muscular function. It also takes time to learn how the weight is distributed when vertical before you want to try to balance the head.


 

Video 1

[10/02/2025, Edvards Kurmins, Riga, Latvia]

 

Inspiration for the task:  Anne Juren - Fantasmical Anatomies’ research on phantom limbs.

Physical task:  Choose parts of your body that have lost their muscular function. Edvards (the dancer from Sixth Dance Company) decided, at some point in the exploration, to investigate the loss of the function of the neck.


 

Component 1.3: Roadmap