Workshops & sessions around artistic research
RADICAL SOFTNESS is a personal appropriation of an expression I've even tattooed on my body. It describes my position in the world and how I take part in it and in everything I do. I depart from the premise that personal is political and that art, even if we want it to be, it is not political enough. I create not as an artist, but as a person, as a woman, as a citizen. Through my artistic practice I see, question and connect to politics, spirituality, ethics, and togetherness and my artistic practice weaves curating, making, performing and teaching.
I don't believe in the conventional education of dance and I wish discipline designations would be abolished — our need to define is often very restrictive.
This workshop provides an individual artistic research that is not based on forms, shapes or conventions but rather ignites from what we need, individually to be able to manifest creatively in the world. It is shaped by the transmission of experiences through asking questions.
We start by awakening our bodies and ourselves as a physical tool for deep connection with the universe, through somatic practices, aligning to the reality of the daily macro-cosmos shifts that affect our micro-cosmos as a person. Through a continuous flow of movement, the body is seen as an oracle and as a vehicle for transcendence.
Afterwards, we will explore the basics of my choreographic practice, working with several layers of attention that fade in and out, repetition and constant exposure of the research. We will be doing things for a very, very long time until we shed the layers of performing through insistency, intensity and intention. We will work with juxtapositions and metaphors, always evolving and unfolding through the necessary means: voice, body, presence, and breath work. The participants are invited to dive in the grounds of my previous pieces and to play in the meanders of ambiguity; of concrete and abstract images; of a subject and an object body.
photos © 1-2 Israel Pimenta @ Oficina Zero; 3 - 4 Carole Lamoglia, 5 - CPL