Exploring intelligence here means working on notions of the multiple self to reveal the environmentally entangled human oriented toward being made different by more than human circumstances and the new knowledge that unveils. Actions of investigation and communication between dancers are scored through directed attention acting as a refractive lens that articulates serious states of play. This compositional project is highly dependent upon dancers who have choreographic skills to be able to move away from a dominant visual concern and into other levels of articulation and compositional choice making. Adding exteroception to the definition of the somatic scores for improvisations organize physical attention across bodies and include set materials that shape the space.
This work is collaborative on every scale of making in its production and performance. Driving the timeline is an edit of a lecture by James Bridle Planetary Intelligence. This auditory focus sustains an investigation of the definition of intelligence as an ability to communicate on the level of communion not just an ability to speak or send messages. Six to ten dancer/choreographers will each be given sections of this lecture in advance to develop scores in collaboration with dancers of their choosing that nest and weave together forming the fabric of this performance. The goal is a 35 minute work that embeds the audience in explorations articulations and evaluations of intelligence not as a thing but as a process not as a single being but as a collective of beings.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
WildHeart: Center for Performance and Embodiment Practice, 183 East Road, Wallkill, United States
