Partnering
“hooking up”

I would like to propose the possibility that dancing on your own would be like partnering yourself, and that the best way to find out how to partner yourself is to partner another body first. I mean, it is the same movement principles and physical laws at stake. Desire communicating through nerves to body parts.
Can we step beyond the understanding of our bodies as the entities defining us as individuals? Can we bring that back to our own, individual dancing and objectify our body as a physical representation of something else?

This question will be asked through the practice of sharing weight in improvisation and proposed set material guiding us to a swift way of interlacing those two approaches until we don´t know which one we are doing.

I am convinced this class is very different from Contact Improvisation, but I am not so sure in what way that is. Bring possible answers.


Horizontal Fall
a generous abandoning gesture towards space

Oh, slave of gravity. You can not fly.
But by understanding our limits we will find freedom. To use the weight in a movement instead of fighting will give a sensation of weightlessness. The “Horizontal Fall” is a controlled fall that, in difference to the vertical fall, never reaches the ground. Instead of falling to the floor we fall along the floor.
The horizontal fall focuses more on the movement in space than the movement in the body and aims to produce knowledge of the difference between doing movement and making movement happen or appear.
It will involve spatial projection and releasing without relaxing. Bring your motivation.


Questioning Choreography
creating set material with your body as you move through it

We set out in two directions: expanding our concepts about what choreography can mean and simultaneously defining it for ourselves. What is it that is being choreographed? The movement, the body, the space, the idea, the perception, the attention and/or any other thing you can think of?

I will bring a few ideas of mine in and the rest will be provided by the other participants. The plan is to move rapidly between theory and practice, moving while we talk, talking while we move.

We will have too little time and it will go on for ever. Bring your intellect and comfortable clothing.


Rasmus Ölme
After his career as a dancer he created the productional unit Refug in 2001 and creates work in between Brussels and Stockholm since then. 2007 he moved back to Sweden and is currently doing a practical artistic PhD at the University College of Dance and Circus in Stockholm.
To read more about Rasmus PhD visit: www.doch.se