PHYTO-SOMATIC DANCE PARTY
What is inside of us? This workshop
is a mixture of comparative microbiology and a dance party. Open to anyone who
feels like researching through embodiment, grooving, sweating, self-regulating.
Drawing on phyto-somatic and folk approaches to dance we look for new sources
of personal and collective movement and relatedness. Hands-on exercises, guided
improvisation and sonic experiments support a deeper awareness of cellular
intelligence and a transgressive sense of community. Dance and music serve as
tools to swell out beyond our bodily contours, becoming a boundless community
of pulses, waves, and flows. We engage with traditional polyphonies and grooves, plant studies, and ecological perception as our methodologies. Mixing the spirit of laboratory with the social intimacy
of a party, we delve into the field of microbiology of relatedness, focusing on
our epithelium as an interface and our bodies as vibrating cellular
communities, attuning to the pulses of a planetary body and micro-timing of embodied musicality. Each meeting relates to a specific native plant and is
accompanied by live music.
What you can experience:
What you can experience:
- Get to know insights into microbiology of relatedness
- Transmute daily toil into sources of joy and release
- Explore sources of unrestricted movement
- Connect to your prevertebral digestive knowledge and cellular intelligence
- Get in contact with chosen native plants
- Tap into non-metric grooves, polyphonic resonances, and circular dramaturgies based in Polish traditions
- Create a deeper sense of connection with others
“Every
plant seems to invent and open a cosmic plane where there is no opposition
between matter and fantasy, between imagination and self-development.”
“Imagine
being made of the same substance as the world that surrounds you; being of the
same nature as music – a series of vibrations of the air, like a jellyfish,
which is no more than a thickening of water. (…) our eyes are ears. to feel is
always to touch, both oneself and the universe that surrounds us.”
“Every
plant seems to invent and open a cosmic plane where there is no opposition
between matter and fantasy, between imagination and self-development.”
“Imagine being made of the same substance as the world that surrounds you; being of the same nature as music – a series of vibrations of the air, like a jellyfish, which is no more than a thickening of water. (…) our eyes are ears. to feel is always to touch, both oneself and the universe that surrounds us.”
“Imagine being made of the same substance as the world that surrounds you; being of the same nature as music – a series of vibrations of the air, like a jellyfish, which is no more than a thickening of water. (…) our eyes are ears. to feel is always to touch, both oneself and the universe that surrounds us.”
WORKSHOPS:
CREATIVE TEAM:
Concept & facilitation Dorota Michalak
Live music Borys Słowikowski
SUPPORTED BY:
Tanzpraxis Scholarship by Senate Department for Culture and Europe
CREATIVE TEAM:
Concept & facilitation Dorota Michalak
Live music Borys Słowikowski
SUPPORTED BY:
Tanzpraxis Scholarship by Senate Department for Culture and Europe
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