BECOMING PLANT
DANCE SESSIONS
CYCLE OF DANCE SESSIONS
An invitation for a joint investigation of BECOMING-PLANT: a labor of
unlearning stiff 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.”
It is a tricky laboratory, 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 each session, we practice the perception of our tangible selves as co-extensive
with the milieu and explore such qualities as complete exposure,
connectivity, acceptance of nuances. The sessions are oriented around different issues such as: body as a process, weight of the air, fluidity and circulation, snacking on light, exchanging resources, embodiment
in communication,
temporalities, one that does not
distinguish between objects & substances, a sense of safety, radical openness.
“We are not inhabitants of the Earth; we inhabit the atmosphere. Terra firma is just the extreme limit of this cosmic fluid at the heart of which everything communicates, touches, extends.”
TEASER
Listener: let your body receive a massage from the reader’s voice, the meaning is absorbed through the skin
Reader: relate to the act of reading as transmitting the softness and juiciness of your pelvic floor, all soft tissues of the pelvic area
“(…) The unique capacity of plants to be ‘in-togetherness’,
making it possible to embody the world and nurture the entire biosphere with
sun power.”