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2025 dance in planthroposcene workshop

PHYTO-SOMATIC DANCE PARTY



What is inside of us? This practice is a mixture of comparative microbiology and a dance party. Within the session, we relax, move and sweat. 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 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 timing of a planetary body and micro timing of our embodied musicality.




CREDITS:
Concept & facilitation Dorota Michalak 
Live music Borys Słowikowski

SUPPORTED BY:
Senate Department for Culture and Europe


“Every plant seems to invent and open a cosmic plane where there is no opposition between matter and fantasy, between imagination and self-development.”

Emmanuele Coccia · The Life of Plants. A Metaphysics of Mixture


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