ORGANIZING & COLLECTIVES
MICROBIOLOGY OF
RELATEDNESS
As a workshop facilitator, I use a mixture of storytelling, score-based improvisations, hands-on practices, voice work and (micro)biological knowledge to access innate bodily virtuosity in dancing, supporting the state of being carried by movement and the access to playfulness in articulation of it.
Skin, membranes and surfaces are approached as interfaces – the places where merging and interdependence happen. Touching visions and haptic speculations enhance fluency and frivolity in reading physical reality (properties, melodies, densities, dynamics and qualities): waves, vibrations, energy circuits, metabolism, fluids and circulations. To be in touch, to be moved, to be a vessel. Delegating agency to the peripheries, decentralizing, attending to details, embracing nuances, facing the unknown.
It can be applied both in a dance training and as a research tool in artistic and social contexts.
Since 2018, I’ve facilitated various workshop formats playing with somatic and mental habits, using phantasising as an embodied, collective practice creating new physicalities, relations and meanings:
BECOMING-BODY & WORKING WITH THE OBVIOUS - using improvisation across somatic and semantic spheres
BECOMING-PLANT DANCE SESSIONS – mixing different branches of knowledge: philosophy, craft and dance to attend to more-than-human sociality
PHYTO-SOMATIC DANCE PARTY - combining visceral meticulousness of somatic microbiology with social intimacy of a (folk) party