[ABCD - Any Body Can Dance - 2 Tamil Dubbed Watch Online
Addison Mauldin
During the Coronavirus lockdown I felt the urge to deepen my understanding of movement and to keep moving with others. I responded to this urge by leading a group practice online. The group met every Sunday afternoon for two months, with the participation of a live musician. The practice was inspired by the tango dance, by contact improvisation, and by the Feldenkrais method of awareness through movement. My goal was not to teach an existing technique. I wanted to explore whether and how working with these three forms of embodied knowledge could be helpful for facing a condition of forced isolation.
From this somatic journey outside-in, I would then ask participants to explore how movement impulses travel across the space between the inside and the outside: not only to reach a chair or a wall in their room, but also to reach another body on the other side of the screen.
Meeting on Zoom was a window to extend the boundaries of the quarantined body by allowing others to access the privacy of the domestic space in a time of deep vulnerability. Working on the feeling of movement through the body and the screen opened up new pathways for connecting with the memories of touch. There were moments when I had the sensation of being physically in the same room with others.
However, online meetings reflected the claustrophobic feeling of separation and loneliness. Being together meant being enclosed in little boxes with the doubt that what was being felt was not comparable to the ideal of touching a human partner. This contradiction is the source of an interesting insight. As the social aspect and context of dancing became less dominant, the experiment offered a glimpse into the empowering effects of re-engaging the space between self and others with freshness and curiosity.
ABSTRACT: THIS FILM IS AN EXPLORATION OF THE BODY: BEING PRESENT TO PLACE AND TIME; BEING AWARE OF CONNECTION WITH OTHERS, WHETHER THAT BE IN REALITY OR THROUGH VIRTUAL CONNECTION AND SENSORIAL MEMORY.
Nathalie S. Fari works across the fields of performative arts, artistic research and somatic education. Her research lies in exploring a site-oriented performance practice through a phenomenological, post-humanist and documentary approach.
AmberBeckyCreative (ABC) is an ongoing collaboration between Amber Ward, PhD (Florida State University) and Rebecca C. Christ, PhD (Florida International University); we (both together and independently) explore pedagogy and qualitative inquiry using critical, postcolonial, poststructural, and posthuman concepts for the purpose of inspiring new ways of be(com)ing, doing, and knowing.
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- May 3rd, 1 to 3pm. Fourth iteration with guests Naila Keleta-Mae (University of Waterloo) and Dana Michel (Independent dance artist and choreographer/Montral). Naila Keleta-Mae brings her scholarly practice of activating minoritarian histories and historiographies in performance. Dana Michel reflects on her artistic and choreographic practice in the Canadian and international dance communities. Keywords: "embodiment" and "representation".
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