Dance Virus - Practice for Altered State
In isolation, viruses show none of the expected signs of life. They do not respond to stimuli, they do not grow, and they do not do any of the things we normally associate with life.
Participants will be encouraged to view and use movement as a vector of collective mobilization and a tool, to rediscover their corporeality in relation to the liberating and increasing exposure to vulnerability and risk that is worthwhile. We use shaking of the body, walking, and gestures in a structured improvisation and composition to experience aliveness and be-ing.
The workshop explores how the human need for belonging to a community, returning to the body, celebrating the body, empathizing, sharing, and being together are essential needs for the well-being of every person in times of isolation, insecurity, and fear.
This is an opportunity to empower yourself and others to be contagious with the dance in the public space of our habitat, to play with the dangerous choice to feel freedom. Delicacy, honesty, openness, and playfulness are the streams in which we find and spread the groove through dance ourselves.
The practice is suitable for every body.
Practices for Altered States is a long-term research project
Practice is a way of action - a set or sets of ways of doing, seeing, hearing or responding to gain experience and to alter the state of mind and body
*The practice is created with the financial support of the National Culture Fund of Bulgaria
photo credits: Gergana Encheva
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