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SILENCE
listening flesh

Based on Jean-Luc Nancy 'The Intruder', influenced by Brandon LaBelle 'Sonic agency', Salomé Voegelin 'The political possibility of sound' and John Cage 'Silence'.

This series of classes were taught along 2021/2022 in Berlin and Brazil. Having the friction between sound and dance as a triggering action, the sessions implement various listening tasks to provoke movement research in solos and within a group. Notions of affect, empathy and care are some concepts that touch the classes.

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SEEKING FOR BOUNDARIES. AIMING TO TOUCH THEM, MOVE THEM, STRETCH THEM, BLUR THEM IN THE ENCOUNTER WITH AN-OTHER. STANDING ON THE LINE BETWEEN INDIVIDUALITY AND PLURALITY THE SENSES ARE CHALLENGED TO (DE)FORM THE SKIN MELTING THE BODY INTO ITS CONTEXT.

LISTENING ALLOWS VARIOUS SUBJECTIVITIES TO APPEAR, A DIRECTED ATTENTION FOR CONSCIOUS ELECTION.

WHAT TO HEAR? WHO TO HEAR?

WHO SPEAKS AND WHO DOESN´T?

CAN YOU SEE WHAT I LISTEN TO?

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THIS PROPOSAL MAKES USE OF DANCE IMPROVISATION TO APPROACH LISTENING AS A PRACTICE THAT HELPS THE REVIEW AND RECONSTRUCTION OF THE SENSE´S CARTOGRAPHY TOWARDS AN ACTIVE REFLECTION UPON THE CONTACT WITH ANOTHER (NON)HUMAN BODY.

 

DANCE IS THE MEANS, SOUND IS THE ELEMENT AND LISTENING THE PRACTICE.

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