S1 Ep34 Dance Workshop (Continuity: Staying With the Dance)

In this workshop, we explore continuity, specificity, and the conditions that allow a practice to develop. What does it mean to stay with something, to keep following a movement or idea, and to recognise a “red thread” through a practice?

Through improvisation and reflection, we investigate going forward rather than simply staying still, and consider how contracts, environments, video, habits, and other conditions shape what becomes possible. The workshop then expands outward: what happens when we explore what isn't part of a work in order to understand what is? And when does exploration need to give way to practice?

The final exercise asks you to practise within an imperfect or unexpected container, discovering what conditions are actually necessary for your practice to continue.

• How do we stay with something?

• What allows continuity to emerge?

• What is the “singular” or specific thing at the heart of a practice?

• What does it mean to go forward in movement?

• What happens when we reset?

• What contracts or conditions allow continuity to exist?

• What exists outside the regime or contract we create?

• How do we know what we like or want before we've tried it?

• What is gained by exploring what doesn't belong in a work?

• What other materials: lighting, costume, sound, atmosphere, architecture, etc. contribute to what a dance becomes?

• When does exploration become practice?

• When is something “enough”?

• What conditions does a practice actually need?

• Can specificity be found in an imperfect or unsuitable environment?

• What happens when we practise somewhere that isn't the ideal place to practise?

Reference:S4 Ep1 PETER, dance with Seke Chimutengwende | [⤓] DOWNLOAD mp3

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Dance workshopExplore, imagine, move.

A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.

To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/

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