• How does composition arise our bodies and its interaction with the environment?
• Which parts of composing are improvisational?
• What happens when we go deep into our evolutionary capacities as a way to puzzle with how our body is playing and being played by our surroundings?
• Can we improvise in the space between imagination and somagination (somatic ‘imagination’)?

We will use Body-Mind Centering®, the somatic work of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and Tuning Scores, developed by dance-maker Lisa Nelson, an improvisational composition practices. The research focuses on the action of the senses as the physical base of the imag/soma/ination.

We will use BMC and Tuning as tools in a framework for communication and create models of collaboration that is constructed by the players in the act of doing.

Dance artist who makes performances, video works and installations for theaters, galleries, museums and different site and context specific encounters. He has an MA in Choreography from KHiO.
For twenty years he has been collaborating with Olive Bieringa as BodyCartography Project. The mission of BodyCartography Project is to engage with the vital materiality of our bodies to create live performance that facilitates a re-enchantment of embodiment, relationship, and presence.

He has had fellowships from Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2015 and McKnight Foundation, 2010, amongst others, and funding from MAP Fund, National Dance Project, American Composers Forum and National Performance Network, amongst many others. He has been an artist in residence at K3 Hamburg; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and Carleton College, Minnesota. He’s done commissioned for Lyon Opera Ballet and PS122, NYC, amongst others.

His most current work Lineage looks at learning and how we learn, care, preservation and archiving by drawing lines between his learning of experimental dance and somatic practices, specifically Lisa Nelson’s Tuning Scores, Steve Paxton’s Material for the Spine, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen’s BMC and emergent the learning of his Norwegian cultural heritage which has been invisible to him.

If you wish to receive more information on how to participate, please write to: imagsomaination@gmail.com – wathapp +39 3286256974

Organizers:
Consuelo Pacheco
Leonardo Lambruschini

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