Choreographic sculpture #3 — COLLECTIVE
Residencies
- 17.05 > 23.05.2021
Vera Tussing and the students of the Antwerp Conservatory (Artesis) are working on a movement score that will form the basis of a durational installation performance entitled Choreographic Sculpture #3 — Collective, with various interventions at DANSAND!*.
In recent years, Tussing has worked on various sculptural projects, starting with Choreographic Sculpture #1 — Pathways as part of IN/FINITY and more recently Choreographic Sculpture #2 — Hands — which enables people to explore more differentiated ways of touching or being with touch through a small hand sculpture in their own home environment.
The movement score they will perform for DANSAND! will take the “stick walk,” a score from Vera’s 2014 creation T‑Dance, as its starting point. In T‑Dance, this was originally created for four performers, but will now be adapted and transformed into a score for a larger ensemble. Multiple performers are connected by wooden sticks, in an exercise of mediated touch.
This “organism” combines the individual movements and interactions of the performers into one larger movement practice. What kind of walk, movement, or dance emerges when you connect a group of people? How can they move, roll, slide, or push while remaining somewhat distantly connected as part of this collective body?
There is no “leading role” in this new dance. People act or react. Movement takes place through the collective body. In movement, action and reaction blur. When one hand touches the other, via a stick, who is touching whom? A continuous, undulating interplay in which sensations are distributed and received.
In recent years, Tussing has worked on various sculptural projects, starting with Choreographic Sculpture #1 — Pathways as part of IN/FINITY and more recently Choreographic Sculpture #2 — Hands — which enables people to explore more differentiated ways of touching or being with touch through a small hand sculpture in their own home environment.
The movement score they will perform for DANSAND! will take the “stick walk,” a score from Vera’s 2014 creation T‑Dance, as its starting point. In T‑Dance, this was originally created for four performers, but will now be adapted and transformed into a score for a larger ensemble. Multiple performers are connected by wooden sticks, in an exercise of mediated touch.
This “organism” combines the individual movements and interactions of the performers into one larger movement practice. What kind of walk, movement, or dance emerges when you connect a group of people? How can they move, roll, slide, or push while remaining somewhat distantly connected as part of this collective body?
There is no “leading role” in this new dance. People act or react. Movement takes place through the collective body. In movement, action and reaction blur. When one hand touches the other, via a stick, who is touching whom? A continuous, undulating interplay in which sensations are distributed and received.
Concept en spel: Vera Tussing & studenten Antwerps Conservatorium (Isaac Butler, Raphael Damasceno Ferreira de Moura, Agnese Forlani, Fyllenia Grigoriou, Marah Haj, Arnau Moreno i Grau, Oscar Pascual López, Valeria Secchi, Hanne Van Driessche, Flora Virag, Bjorn Vervecken, Anna Orfee Tibergien, Nicolas Verlinden) | Productie: Hiros