becoming
exposure dance in planthroposcene

BECOMING PLANT:
DANCE SESSIONS

It is an invitation for a joint investigation of “becoming-plant” as “a labor of unlearning certain somatic and mental habits” within a cycle of dance sessions.

“The idea of becoming-plant is an idea within us, composing us because becoming-plant happens.”

“Becoming is the name for this provisional co-creative zone in which the ‘parties’ and their ‘proper functions’ are themselves effaced and augmented.”

Karen L. F. Houle · Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics as Extension or Becoming? The Case of Becoming-Plant

Within the sessions, we practice the perception of our tangible selves as co-extensive with the environment and explore such qualities as complete exposure, connectivity, acceptance of all nuances. Each cycle is a place of mixing somatic techniques with plant philosophy, recipes for producing bio-plastic with movement scores, political contexts with fantasizing, feminist practice with biology textbooks and so on.

Within a cycle, there are 8 sessions (ca. 2,5h each) oriented around different issues:

snacking on light // extraterrestrial space and the earth // exchanging resources and nutrients // temporalities // space & scale // one that does not distinguish between objects & substances // a safety issue // radical openness

CREDITS

Concept & facilitation:
Dorota Michalak

SUPPORTED BY
Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Programm NEUSTART KULTUR, Hilfsprogramm DIS-TANZEN des Dachverband Tanz Deutschland

CARRIED OUT AT
MMS - Berlin (DE), 2021/2022