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SUMMARY:ABOUT DANCE v1 Ep4: Collective Retrospection
DESCRIPTION:We gathered in Lake Studios Garden to reflect\, discuss\, dance and meditate about the preceding one and a half years of pandemic life. Guided by moderators Lea Martini and Noha Ramadan — with remote contributions from Antje Pfundtner and Johan Forsman — participants explored themes both philosophical and mundane\, danced between reality and fantasy\, and conversed on matters both personal and universal.  Volume 4 of the ABOUT DANCE forum used a series of scores as frameworks for movement and conversation. Each score guided the group deeper into the Forum’s theme of “collective retrospection on heterogenous impacts of pandemia”. We worked solo\, in pairs\, and as a group to examine the past and predict the future. It was funny\, emotional and revelatory. Perhaps we would all do well to visit and revisit these scores on a regular basis! To keep them alive and useful\, below is a record of what the Volume 4 moderators offered the forum participants. Each score will be presented with instructions and in the order in which it appeared at the forum. Grab a group of friends\, a lover\, a pet — or just yourself — and dive on in. If doing the scores in a group\, change partners regularly\, if you are on your own\, don’t be afraid to talk to yourself out loud! EXPAND for the scores >>\n“I never felt so comfortable telling secrets to strangers.”  \n\n\n\n“I thought I was done thinking about the effects of the pandemic\, but after this weekend I am not sure I ever even started to really think about it.”  \n\n\n\n“Sometimes I wanted more time with each score\, but then I saw value in every new task.”     \n\n\n\n“I want to use these scores in my regular life\, not just for artistic purposes\, not just for pandemic purposes\, but for general life purposes. I can imagine doing these with my partner or family … or my cat … or just with myself …”   \n\n\n\nThe Introduction Score:  \n\n\n\nFirst\, strike a pose! Hold the pose throughout your introduction.  \n\n\n\nNext\, introduce yourself and include in your intro each of the following elements:  \n\n\n\n~ 1-2 things about yourself.  \n\n\n\n~ Where you are coming from on this day.  \n\n\n\n~ Where you will go after this day.  \n\n\n\n~ Why you are here.  \n\n\n\n~ Include somewhere in the above points one thing about yourself that is not true!   \n\n\n\nThe Stop Dance Score:  \n\n\n\nThis score alternates between movement/dance explorations (with music) and guided conversations (no music). The movement explorations last for the duration of whatever song is being played (some song suggestions below). Each conversation is guided by a specific question and lasts 5 minutes. There are six rounds.   \n\n\n\nRound 1:  \n\n\n\nMovement Guide:  Shake (music suggestion: The Knife- a tooth for an eye)  \n\n\n\nConversation Question:  What has changed for you in the last 1.5 years?  \n\n\n\nRound 2:  \n\n\n\nMovement Guide:  Circles  \n\n\n\nConversation Question:  How did the pandemic affect your relationship to physicality\, sensation and touch?   \n\n\n\nRound 3:   \n\n\n\nMovement Guide:  Pump/get the fire going (music suggestion: Gijensu-Raveheart)  \n\n\n\nConversation Question:  What places and spaces have you visited in the last 1.5 years?   \n\n\n\nRound 4:  \n\n\n\nMovement Guide:  Stretch (music suggestion: Rihanna- Love on the brain)  \n\n\n\nConversation Question:  What do you need more of?   \n\n\n\nRound 5:  \n\n\n\nMovement Guide:  Connect with your surrounding landscape  \n\n\n\nConversation Question:  What do you need less of?   \n\n\n\nRound 6:  \n\n\n\nMovement Guide:  Connect with the space and people  \n\n\n\nConversation Question:  What question do you want to ask?   \n\n\n\nThe Mental Map Score:  \n\n\n\nThis exercise goes with The Stop Dance Score. Write single words or short phrases that came up during the “Stop Dance” conversations on post it notes. Lay all the notes out on the floor\, or stick on a wall\, so that you have an overview. Spend about 15 minutes doing this\, then move on to “The Body Research Score”.  \n\n\n\nThe Body Research Score:  \n\n\n\nChoose 2 mental map words and explore them physically. How can the words be embodied?    \n\n\n\nThe Cloud Gazing Conversation Score:  \n\n\n\nThis score is done in pairs. Partners lay side by side\, on their backs\, gazing up at the sky if possible\, otherwise\, simply gazing upwards.   \n\n\n\nPartner 1 will speak for 30 minutes\, uninterrupted. Partner 2 listens but makes no response. After the 30 minutes\, partner 2 has 10 minutes to respond/reflect on what they heard. During the response\, partner 1 listens and does not speak. Switch roles.   \n\n\n\nTalking points: What is your practice / work at the moment? How is it changing\, is it changing? What are you questioning? Are there problems\, are there things to zoom in or affirm or enhance? What is / has been going on? What is bothering you?  \n\n\n\nIn a nutshell:  \n\n\n\n30 minutes of uninterrupted talk.  \n\n\n\n10 minutes of uninterrupted response.  \n\n\n\nSwitch roles.   \n\n\n\nThe Warm-up Ping Pong Score:   \n\n\n\n(suggested by Antje Pfundtner who knows it from Jenny Beyer)   \n\n\n\nThis one gets the blood flowing!  \n\n\n\nOne person offers any physical warm-up exercise\, the group follows along. When  the person leading the exercise is ready to pass the guiding on to another person they shout “Ping”  … anyone in the group can pick up the imaginary ball by shouting “Pong” and thus become the new warm up leader! Continue to ping and pong for 15 to 20 minutes\, or until good and warm and centered in the body.  \n\n\n\nThe Mental Map Development Score:  \n\n\n\nReturning to the words written down in “The Mental Map Score”\, start arranging the notes into groups of likeness. What notes go with each other? If doing this score in a group\, no need to take turns\, but do work in silence. Each person can continue to rearrange the notes into different groups as they see fit. Once a series of groupings are made\, stand back and observe.  \n\n\n\nThe next phase of this score is to re-arrange a note or set of notes one person at a time. After moving a note (or several)\, the person making the arrangement should explain to the rest of the group why they chose the new grouping. A chance to shed light on the internal decisions that guide the mental map groupings!  \n\n\n\nThe Mental Map\n\n\n\n~~~  \n\n\n\nAll of the scores recorded above carried the forum towards a grand finale. After moving\, conversing and reflecting on the past\, the forum launched into the future with the help of a very unique guest …  \n\n\n\nJohan from the Future:  \n\n\n\nWe were visited via Zoom by “Johan from the Future” who gave a short talk on cultural perceptions of time\, followed by a guided meditation in which participant’s imaginations were invited to envision far into the future. On the heels of the meditation\, the group began creating a collective timeline that ran from point zero (a moment from the preceding year and a half that represented a point of change) to 100\,000 years into the future.   \n\n\n\nWhile working on the timeline\, participants were able to consult (via Zoom) with Johan From the Future\, asking questions that ranged from what is the largest volcano in the world to what year the first theater will open on Mars.  \n\n\n\nTimeline into the future\n\n\n\nThe Letter score:  \n\n\n\nIf you have made it this far in the scores\, then it is time to write your future self a letter. Reflect on what you want to remember from the above exercises and write it down in a letter to yourself. Seal the letter in an envelope\, add your address\, and then give it to a trusted friend who will mail it to you at some unknown future date. Now carry on with life and forget about the letter!  \n\n\n\nThe Final score:  \n\n\n\nThe final action is a group hug … pandemic style.   \n\n\n\nStand in a circle with friends and sweep your arms out to the side to energetically encompass the whole group. Then wrap your arms around your own chest and squeeze tight. Hug yourself to hug the whole.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPOINT OF REFERENCE \nSick Woman Theory\, a manifesto by artist Johanna Hedva  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nARTIST BIOGRAPHIES\njohan forsman is part of the team running the platform and venue skogen in göteborg\, Sweden. skogen tries to work with artists in longer collaborations with an ambition to learn and think together. In the last years skogen also became a publisher and a press\, and we develop software to organize artist driven spaces or local communities\, and to manage and share common resources. As modernity is collapsing in global crises\, we believe in getting entangled in various art initiatives and local community processes and in concrete\, practical issues around how we live\, work and eat\, and in how resources are used\, owned and shared. \n\n\n\nlea martini works internationally in the field of dance making / transmitting / performing. berlin is her homebase. attracted by intense physicalities she started out by learning gymnastics and later found her way into the world of contemporary dance. pieces she‘s part of – often created in collective structures- are physical approaches and realisation of socio-political issues. lea is part of psr\, a collective running and envisioning heizhaus\, a space between artistic laboratory and cultural neighbourhood centre at uferstudios berlin.  \n\n\n\nantje pfundtner in Gesellschaft (APiG) stands for different artistic  activities of Hamburg based choreographer Antje Pfundtner\, developed together with core team A. Kersting (dramaturgy)\, H. Melder  (production management) and J.Lüthje (distribution) and collaborating guest. APiG creates stage works and initiates formats of artistic sharing. https://www.antjepfundtner.de/en/tischgesellschaften/ \n\n\n\nnoha ramadan (they/them) is a dancer\, performer and educator based in Amsterdam. Their artistic work starts with the body and manifests as text\, performance and moving image\, creating situations in which perception and logic are destabilised\, allowing subjects to appear as suggestive and poetic traits. Noha is co-founder of Jacuzzi\, an artist-run space at the crossroads of performance\, visual arts\, and  time-based media in Amsterdam. They graduated from Das Choreography in 2017 and are a mentor and teacher at the School for New Dance Development and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy\, Amsterdam. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTrailer for Collective Retrospection\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncollective retrospection on heterogenous impacts of pandemia \n\n\n\nif we had a moment\, a tiny moment  \n\n\n\nhovering in proximity \n\n\n\nnot yet in the position to participate the worlds to come \n\n\n\nnot yet collecting essential skills\, tools\, resouces to entangle in futures \n\n\n\nnot getting up yet  \n\n\n\nwhat could we tell each other? \n\n\n\nwhat the fuck happened to us\, me\, them\, you\, her\, others in the last one and a half years? where have we been? how are you? how are the bodies? what are they made of?  \n\n\n\nwhat made your days?  \n\n\n\nany discoveries\, may they be most intimate\, imply social visions\, hacks for your practice\, or all mashed up anyway? which imaginations could have never been imagined otherwise? \n\n\n\nwhat do you want to keep\, what not?  \n\n\n\nwhat did we miss that we can‘t miss any longer? \n\n\n\nwhere can we relate to each other and where – even if we try – not? \n\n\n\na two day attempt to memorize and detect what might have exceeded comprehension \n\n\n\nduring the last one and a half years and asks for digestion.  \n\n\n\nnow that the cultural life has started to appear again in full speed\, it seems precious  to take time to look back\, to acknowledge the locally and globally immense shifts\, their impact on all levels\, their touch way beyond the places in the oral cavity. \n\n\n\nby using their knowledge from performance\, choreography and the organisation of groups within the artistic and social realm antje pfundtner\, johan forsman\, noha ramadan and lea martini will suggest a non-organic structure to try this collective retrospection. \n\n\n\ndreaming\, dancing\, discussion sessions and artistic material developed during the pandemia will seamlessly interlock. taking no self-evidence that we share the same experiences\, we wish to enable expression of and listening to the differences of voices and create space and time for a heterogenous survey. \n\n\n\nthe two days will be hybrid in their form. johan and antje appear via screen\, noha and lea will be physically present at lake studios. they look forward to meeting people connecting in the widest sense with the dance field who also feel the need for retrospection. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHosted by: Lea Martini and Noha Ramadan \n\n\n\nArtistic Direction: Marcela Geische  \n\n\n\nProduction Assistance: Maria Kousi \n\n\n\nArchivist & Documentation Writer: Jessy Tuddenham \n\n\n\nCamera: Mariel Baquiero \n\n\n\nEditing: Noam Gorbat \n\n\n\nThe ABOUT DANCE\, Vol 4 participants included the following artists:   \n\n\n\nAna Laura Lozza\, Patricia Woltman\, Giovanni Di Lauro\, Anne Brüning\, John Maccallum\, Teoma Naccarato\, Max Blax\, Dina Nurpeissova\, Denny Fiorino.
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