Bouncing Between Viewing and Sensing
with Androniki Marathaki
This workshop is structured between the space that unfolds in dancing and its viewing. It seeks the “air-bridges” between these two worlds, between choreography and practices that create dance while meditatively absorbing the feedback of their movement.
How do we reconcile with this gap that unfolds between the sensations when we watch human bodies dance and embodied practices?
How do we reverse the tendencies to cover it by experimenting between the space it leaves and precisely because it exists?
Through paradigms I have visited as a choreographer and workshop facilitator, we will focus on how to bring movement into the foreground in front of our eyes and before any meaning is created. By calming down and releasing any expectations, by allowing the meaning of movement to continue to slip in just as it does when we move, but always by maintaining the tendency for these two worlds to communicate, we will research primal movement initiations by otherwise inviting the various “eyes” of the viewers. By unlocking synesthetic and kinesthetic channels of communication we question how the viewers and we can witness movement processes and gently touch the aesthetic forms that are created.
Practices that humans have trusted and maintained over the years, relations that unite the different parts of our body, and ways in which we perceive our sensory body- as part of this world, are some of the ways in which we are proposed to observe the new intelligences that emerge and thus create “meaning”.
On an experimental level – that does not formulate choreographic pathways that have bridged the gap between “seeing and feeling”- , here I share some efforts that highlight that the empty space between the two worlds is necessary and dynamically present, with many times these two realms even being strongly contradictory to each other. But so I suggest that they allow for movement and continue to vastly recharge magic; they continue to recharge the multiple truths that exist between the visible and
invisible and their healthy coexistence. As well as the Bodies that with care, respect and with curiosity explore and contemplate movement.
Androniki Marathaki (GR) is a choreographer, performer and dance teacher. For the last three years, under the title “Let’s be comfortable in our own skin” she has been developing a dance improvisation practice that cultivates the relationship between sensory stimuli and movement.
