This practice is aiming to create a space where personal virtuosity can be trained and enhanced. The body is perceived here as a container of already existing practices, forms, habits, errors, fortunes and misfortunes. A body that is moving out of necessity, urgency, pleasure or desire.
This might be a celebration, a catharsis, a storm or a sunrise.

 

Each dancer is an (in)dependent unity manifesting in a group context. A group that engages in the practice simultaneously could potentially allow the space to reveal itself as a container of parallel processes.

The invitation is to dance together as independent individuals that depend. There is no right or wrong way to be or move in this context. There is yet the encouragement to fuse what you know and morph your body according to the circumstances.

Some of the parameters are defined by a set of guidelines / manifesto, that everyone goes through before the start of the practice. The moment it starts, there can only be practice; of moving (or not), of thinking (or not).

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The music plays an important role in this practice, as it is one of the main influential ingredients. The mixing of already used musical compositions aims to generate a space with multiple co-existing notions.  The soundscapes of the club, the declarations of a ritual and the alternating distances of sound sources are some of the inspirations for this context.

 

Here are some of the principles of the practice:

1. You are an independent individual that depends

2. What you do is exactly what you should do.

3. Your tools for moving are everything you know already.

4. Travelling through the possibilities of body, space, time, voice, music, dance styles, techniques or states is welcomed.

5. No hunting, only embracing.

6. When you enter the room, start by repetition of movement(s)

 

This developing practice will be used for the next production of Andreas Hannes for the School for New Dance Development in November 2016 in Amsterdam.