The performance project deals with the act of remembering and how the body perceives, locates, and embodies any memory and how these can be expressed through dance and movement. In the process, we use objects, items, and soundscapes, among others, which we explore haptically and sensually in terms of their quality, dimension, and texture. We also work with a conscious state of forgetting, examining different materials for what is the most natural way, approach, handling, and function. In the following step we will use other parts of the body such as arms, legs, knees, and shoulders to grasp, grab, lift things. In this way we can consciously draw new forms and qualities out of our thinking body and its habitual movements.  What does the body offer? What does the material offer? How do both components relate to space? How do we stand together in relation to each other? How can we perform our sensations? By using improvisation modules dealing specifically with body surfaces, body limbs and body length, we develop a common and individual memory archives. Further on, the archive serves as an impulse to move in space with the kinesthetic experience. In doing so, we draw attention to the memory of sensation and visualize what and how we have perceived haptically and sensually. In the context of a public sharing on the last day, we give insights into our research and movement processes.

Additionally there is a class "Improvisational Matter" with Richard Oberscheven  from 04.09. – 25.10.2023 | Mon & Wed 18:15-19:45
Improvisational Matter is composed of different influences of improvisational techniques and my experience in contemporary dance. The practice focuses on how the body thinks, organizes, and orients itself. Within we work with movement qualities, rhythms, musicality, awareness, presence to sharpen the spatial, haptic and movement sense. Less the aesthetic aspect, but the thinking processes are in the foreground – it is about the permanent exploration to stimulate movement processes, to make them visible and to observe each other in the process.