Asa Horvitz
Outside Time, Clear Wild Night

This field project is one of depth, intensity, rejuvenation, and reconnection, focused on the expansion of consciousness through dreaming and dancing together.

A collective ritual on the first day incubates dreams, seeking responses to personal questions. Each day, performance material is created from the dreams participants experience after the incubation, exploring the connection between dream imagery and the body’s felt sense, and discovering how dream images can open us to larger flows that move us towards sensitivity and alignment.

Working with the movements of George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, participants engage with singular geometric dances that split attention between parts of the body, rhythms, sounds, light, space, and others. These dances can empty us of strong personal feelings and connect us to a larger field of awareness.

Over five days, these seemingly opposite approaches to depth – supported by informal theory talks – will complement each other, intensify the process, and help touch something wild and alive in oneself and others.

Ultimately, the aim is to discover how dance and performance can not only restore balance, but also take the group on a shared journey into unknown territories during a moment in which reality refuses to stay real.

This research project is open to anyone interested in how working with certain forms (dances, dreams) can transform themselves and others in a group setting. While no professional dance experience or training is required, participants must be able to bring a sustained presence and attention over a week of intense and challenging work, as well as the capacity to be sensitive to, and careful with, their own process and that of others.

For this workshop, Asa will be assisted by dancer and choreographer, and longtime collaborator, Keyna Nara, as well as hometown hero, dancer and performer Theo Emil Krausz.