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𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐲: 𝟒-𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐷𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑒?
𝑇𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛?
𝐴𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛?
One Body is a study of how two (or more) bodies can move/act as one.
The question is not if it is possible - because it is - but what are the requirements for the two or the many to move/act as one creative entity, to enter such a shared state of collaboration and co-creation during a contact improvisation dance.
We will be mainly researching one of the definitions of CI by Steve Paxton in 2015:
"𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 3𝑟𝑑 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒.
𝐻𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑛𝑒𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔.
𝐼𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠, 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔."
𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆?
𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 "3𝒓𝒅 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒚"? 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒆?
𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒘𝒐 (𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆) 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒐𝒏𝒆?
𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔?
The last question is for me the driving force that moves me towards sharing this research. In summary, because it makes good dancing! And who doesn't want good dancing..?
Good dancing not only for myself, hopefully for my partner(s) and for anyone else witnessing the dance too. To reframe and remember that dance is not about self-indulgence, but 𝑎 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟.
𝐖𝐇𝐎
Francisco "Fran" Borges [PT]
Born in the Azores islands, Francisco is a researcher of embodied attention, relational intelligence, movement and the beautiful strangeness of life. He's a contact improvisation practitioner, event organizer & facilitator, moving philosopher, performer, videographer, eco-somatic artist, poet, musician, freediver & meditation guide.
His work is deeply inspired by Sasha Dodo & Dolores Dewhurst-Marks [TOWARDS: Center for Practice and Research of Contact Improvisation]; No An & the Human Garden [Performative Pratices for Nature, as Nature]; The Original CI research of Steve Paxton, Nancy S. Smith, Nita Little, Ray Chung & Others; Ekaterina Basaeleva [Body that Can]; Anjelika Doniy; Geraldin Acevedo [Being]; Marco Solimeni [Aikido]; Sasha Bezrodnova [Authentic Movement & OceanDance]; Bari Kim; Silent Contact Retreats; Butoh; Zen; Dzogchen; Vipassana & more.
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5-8th April 2025
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