_ Artistic residency _ February 10-14
_ Open call _ Study group _ 10-15 February
_ Performance _ February 15, 19h
En “The Centre that Cannot Hold" a group of dancers, theatre makers, somatic practitioners, and performers are invited to come together through a residency and performance, to understand Choreomania not only as a theoretical framework, but also a somatic methodology to investigate our interpersonal relationships in cognitive capitalist frameworks. That being, the ways systems control, regulate, and ‘normalize’ our relationality, in which relationships are usually binary, commodified, and serialised.
In the practice-based residency, the intention is to search for the means to explore group intimacy and holding space for one another, especially through emotions which are hard to digest. Through doing so, we explore our intimacy to others, to society, and to ourselves, and the vulnerability and openness that could principally guide our relations not only to other humans, but animals, objects, and the earth. Eventually, the performance is intended to be constituted of a series of theatrical, performative, and dance-based vignettes, in which participants somatically express that which ‘should not be seen or watched’, exploring emotions which may be typically labelled mad, dissident, excessive, or unseemly.
The impulse then throughout the residency is to deconstruct what might otherwise be understood as pessimistic and cynical into a community building and world building methodology for exploring connection and intimacy through vulnerability and openness, and moreover, how we can understand somatic work, being-together, and performance as practices of transformation and reassociation.
_ Open call _ Study group _ 10-15 February
Oryx will lead as movement director and facilitator in a residency involving 5-10 participants. Together, we will engage in facilitated body-based somatic explorations, open scores, talk and writing based collective reflections, and a rehearsal which shall culminate in a collaborative performance.
The activity open to those who would like to investigate their intimacy, interrelationality, and sexuality, regardless of the gender or identity of the people they will meet in the experience.
Any dancers, theatre makers, somatic explorers, or creatives are encouraged to apply, but registration is open to any interested individual. Local as well as international artists are welcome to participate, but travel costs cannot be covered by the residency. Participation is otherwise free.
GRUPO COMPLETO
_ Performance _ February 15, 19h
The performance will be the culmination of the exploratory work carried out with Oryx during the residency, where participants will collectively investigate intimacy and vulnerability through movement and somatic reflection.
Suggested collaboration performance 15€
o Variable depending on your current situation. 10-30€
See information about variable collaboration
REGISTER THROUGH THIS LINK:
https://forms.gle/LwvBN4gb5XCEqB2A7
*** We do not want anyone to be left out of the activities due to economic issues, if this is your case, let us know.
Likewise, Observatorio del Placer is a project in formation, if you want to support the space and the artists with a larger collaboration, it will also be welcome.
Oryx
Oryx is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary performance artist, movement practitioner, researcher, archivist, and writer. Oryx’s work spans contemporary dance; butoh; immersive theatre and acting; durational performance and installation art. They investigate the embodiment of cultural histories, queer theory, gender and class politics, and psycho-somatics. Their work tends towards the political and philosophical: using speculative world building mechanisms and conceptual or poetic writing to postulate and structure their practices. Through their Literature and Art History studies, and later their various movement and dance studies, they became interested in the intersections of critical theory, movement, and bodywork, and the means by which movement and consciously modified experiences through the body can resignify socially encoded experiences of the body, intimacy, self-concept, and affect.
Feminism and queer theory are constant undercurrents to their work: from the representation of the body onstage, self-expressions, radical vulnerability and honesty, the deconstruction of binarisms, and performance radicalism. Underlying all of their work is a desire to critically reflect on and renounce power structures as well as to technically challenge the overarching and instantiated structures of their practices. However, the desire to do so is at once united with a desire to subvert, to make strange and poetic, to escape simple or easy definitions.
