The act of performance is an interactive web of looking, listening, feeling and perceiving each other. In this workshop we will work from the most basic building blocks of experience, unpacking sensation, perception, impulse, emotion, thought, memory, reflex and reaction in order to create more space between them in which to locate and direct the dances and actions we perform for each other. How do those attending to our performances perform their presence and attention? How do we invite their engagement as they enact their perception(s)? Choreographers Jess Curtis and Claire Cunningham will lead this 4-day workshop researching themes and ideas related to their new work "The Way You Look (at me) Tonight" investigating sensing, movement, our perceptions of each other and of our environment. Taking inspiration from the work of their collaborator Dr. Alva Noë—whose philosophy suggests that perception is an activity happening in our whole bodies and not just our brains—we will investigate, through movement, language, writing, watching, listening and feeling, how difference – of physicality or lived experience- and diversity can both inform and shape our perception.

Not necessarily just for dancers, but also for people with a body-based performance practices. The material is accessible to folks with diverse physicalities and the Uferstudios venue is barrier free/wheelchair accessible.

In the frame of Open Spaces#2-2016  Claire Cunningham and Jess Curtis present excerpts of the performance "The Way You Look (at Me) Tonight".
A talk with Alva Noë 14th of July 2016.