Practice sharing - MFA in Dance and Participation
Three students from our MFA in Dance and Participation share practice and performance situations from their ongoing dissertation projects. Come along, witness, and partake.
Find descriptions of each project below.
by Aline Combe
Interviews
Being exposed to someone
I have developed an interview method that I apply
to people I don't know
who have been referred to me by mutual acquaintances.
The interviews take place at their homes,
where I bring blankets and snacks.
As I interview them, I try to « expose » myself to these individuals,
like a photosensitive paper -inside a camera- is exposed to light.
Later on, I create a small performance-based videos, inspired by this exposure.
The videos are not portraits of the interviewees.
Rather an expression of something I perceived from them. Could be a rhythm, a concern, a way of speaking.
Afterwards, I show them the video and they provide feedback.
What I am seeking is this translation:
how to move from the encounter with another human
to performative material.
To guide me, I follow protocols and constraints.
Researcher
Aline Combe
Artistic Collaborators
Johan Bech
Maxime Kroot
Micaela Kühn Jara
Laura Navndrup Black
Garance Plessis-Fraissard
Paulina Rewucka
Jules S.
Astrid Sten Andersen
Straw-creator
Emil Obel Pedersen
Camera persons
Adam Emil Paltorp-Schmitt
Paulina Rewucka
Performers
Aline Combe
Astrid Sten Andersen
Head of programme
Laura Navndrup Black
Production
Matti Bekkevold
Light Design
Turpin Djurhus
Technical support
Jari Matsi
Costume Design
Dorte Kimer
Sound Design
Todd Sarfaraz
supervisor
Gry Worre Hallberg
Thanks to
Alex Hermansen
Bo Kastberg
Daniella Eriksson
Sabine Fleur Scribner
Durita D. Andreassen
Maya Dalinsky
The 3 anonymous persons I interviewed for this research
Duration: 40 min.
Please note that the sharing contains swearing
By Maxime Kroot
FOAM
A piece of mattress
This practice sharing represents my research into kinesthaetic empathy in a participatory dance performance. I am curious about how an audience can be affected (experience a physical sensation), while watching and participating in a dance performance. The participation involves a stimulation of the senses.
“I don’t like sleeping on soft mattresses, I feel like I’m being absorbed by them.” “It is like this feeling of being on a cloud, you can’t ground yourself.”
It is the weight of the body and the weight of the material that interests me. It is the reciprocity of us touching and us being touched (by any material, matter, human or non-human) that makes me curious.
Can we predict the movement of weight and touch?
Can we feel more of our own body by exploring another material body, together?
Performers
Maxime Kroot & Anna Lawaetz & a pile of foam mattresses
Supervisor
Solveig Styve Holte
Head of programme
Laura Navndrup Black
Production
Matti Bekkevold
Light Design
Turpin Djurhus
Technical support
Jari Matsi
Costume Design
Dorte Kimer
Sound Design
Todd Sarfaraz
thanks to
With thanks to all the other human beings contributing to this research: Axel Semler, Anne Birch Basse, Keren Hoffman, Emil Elciario Vittrup, Albert Ivarsson, Roula Samiotaki, Laue Mamo, Ulrik ørsnes Jansen, Paulina Rewucka, Aline Combe, Dorte Bjerre Jensen, Mette Møller Overgaard, students of Rudersdal Bevægelses Akademi, members of the Contact Improvisation community in Copenhagen.
Duration: 40 min.
By Pauline Rewucka
ghostly memories collected
(on power of loss)
The practice presentation becomes this space in which I invite you to spend time with your body and memory. This is the result of recent weeks during which I have been learning about my friends' stories through shared practice. By visiting four studios in different countries I approached friends and newcomers. One body collected those experiences as a source to create, to become a stream for a time of presentation.
Attention! The practice may affect your mood or emotions due to work through the body.
Facilitation and performance
Paulina Rewucka with friend’s ghostly presence
Live music
Beatriz Gijón Gijón
Harald Ingvarsson
Light design
Turpin Djurhus
Costume consultation
Dorte Kimer
Sound consultation
Todd Sarfaraz
Technical support
Jari Matsi
Production
Matti Bekkevold
Consultation
Laura Navndrup Black
Thanks to
Friends and collaborators: Aga, Agnieszka, Aline, Andrea, Beatriz, David Sebastian, Ewa, Farshid, Flavia, Franco, Gabriele, Harald, Janina, Jarmiła, Jola Karina, Kalliopi, Klara, Laura, Malina, Mette, Marijke, Maxime, Matt, Nawojka, Neza, Oliv, Pape, Remy, Rikke, Rocio (tbc) among others that this program had to be printed before possibility to include them here.
Duration: 40 min.
Please note that the sharing contains the use of load music
