Horizontal Fall
buoyancy

Right now I´m thinking about the combination of the arboreal bone structure and a rhizomatic perception whole. I´m thinking about how movement is a spatial direction that can be directed through the body. I´m thinking about buoyancy on land, meaning how to float on the ground by exercising just enough effort to cancel gravity, and that this buoyancy is, just like under water, related to density which means that we can regulate it with the breath.
The work could also be expressed as spatial projection and releasing without relaxing. Or through the difference of doing movement and letting movement appear.
So I think a lot, for quite a while, and then I forget about it, put some music on and dance. For the fun of it.



Partnering
"hooking up"

Maybe dancing alone could be like partnering yourself, and maybe the best way to find out how to partner yourself is to partner another body. Hook on to another system to learn more about your own. Maybe then we can step beyond the understanding of our bodies as the entities defining us as individuals and 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.



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