Date - time: 05.08.2019 15.00-16.00 (Lab) & 30 min of sharing afterward

Title of the LAB: Can I be touched without understanding?

Facilitator(s): Bryce Kasson, Jurij Konjar, Alice Godfroy

Inquiry of the LAB (Questions, Propositions):

• The connection with language
• How the words and dance feed eachother?
• When and in what way do words appear, when tracing a memory of a dance event?
• what is the momentum?
• How to describe the preverbal zone?

Participants: Bryce Kasson, Jurij Konjar, Alice Godfroy

Documentors:

Flow (scores, exercises, discussions…):

Discussion + writing score: describe a perplexing remembered event, while observing how the words appear. 

Reflections (discussions,writing, drawings…):

we burned it.

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Title of the LAB: Choclate Lab

Facilitator(s): Laura, Markus, Teti

Inquiry of the LAB (Questions, Propositions):

Key words from the cards: fear / desire / chocolate / taste

Participants: Ray, Georg, Patrick, Dilek, Michele, Elisa

Documentors: Elisa, Dilek

Flow (scores, exercises, discussions…):

• Gathering around the cards
• Sharing wishes / desires / interests
• Eating some chocolate
• Talking about fear from physical / non-physical aspect
• Choosing a score: Dancing blindfolded for 15 mins, sharing impressions about how the topics resonate in use while dancing blindfolded

Reflections (discussions,writing, drawings…):

• Being with another body felt safer
• I felt safer than many of my other dances (eyes open)
• I went near the other group on purpose and enjoyed listening to them talking
• I felt different when I met a person from this group and a person from the other 'gang'
• Reaching quality is different, more curious

Title of the LAB: Memory

Facilitator(s): Ana, Lewis

Inquiry of the LAB (Questions, Propositions):

• Imagination based on memory (unforgetting)
• Is your memory interrupting your dance? -> Ana: My history is my dance
• Loosing memory - choosing to let go - edit/filter
• Liberation into nonsense - awareness of memory in order to distort
• Traces / ghosts - environment

Key cards:

• How the body remembers? How can we understand?
• slow-ness return memories
• loosing memory at the time

Participants: Ana, Lewis

Documentors: Ana, Lewis

Flow (scores, exercises, discussions…):

Reflections (discussions,writing, drawings…):

How do you dance forgetting and recalling all the time?

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Title of the LAB: Survival Toolkit Manifesto Continuum

Facilitator(s): Shura, Bradley, Eric

Inquiry of the LAB (Questions, Propositions):

• The manual of survival
• Survival toolkit
• My internal ideologies?
• Manifesto
• Supporting / secondary 
• silence, silence
• to act not
• less less less -> what we can practice doing less - to see what emerges

Participants: Shura, Bradley, Eric

Documentors:

Flow (scores, exercises, discussions…):

Survival – finding the dance, finding our way, staying

Toolkit :

• What I’ve assembled through practice
• Pathways, reflexes, ownership & enjoyment of use
• The tools themselves get worn & become personalized
• The tools get better (proved better outcomes through use)

Manifesto :

• Aesthetics & values within the dance
• How we craft layers
• How your partner perceives you
• How you’re being seen
• How we care about that perception

We chose to dance in a trio and include the option to report (verbally) in relation to survival, manifesto, toolkit

Our score -> in movement 

Reflections (discussions,writing, drawings…):

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Title of the LAB: Cards as scores

Facilitator(s): Joe, Nico, Dani, Barbara, Cleo, Anouk, Alessandro, Jovair, Stephanie, Ilona

Inquiry of the LAB (Questions, Propositions):

• Techniques for vanishing
• Where the body opens
• Doing the minimum
• The embrace of space
• Can you let go of letting?

Participants: Joe, Nico, Dani, Barbara, Cleo, Anouk, Alessandro, Jovair, Stephanie, Ilona

Documentors:

Flow (scores, exercises, discussions…):

Talking about the cards - our favourites; what they mean and their relationships

Metascore:

One person picks a card at random: reads it out loud.

Another person says a number: how long the score lasts (minutes)

A timer is set

Everyone does what they want with the words on card : can talk / move / write / all of them at once

When time is up, stop

Repeat 

Reflections (discussions,writing, drawings…):

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Title of the LAB:

Facilitator(s): Eszter, Bronja, Peter

Inquiry of the LAB (Questions, Propositions):

Space heart translate

being chosen, choosing

Key cards:

• I taste things
• There is no space in me?
• Do you choose? Are you chosen? Is space choosing you?
• What helps?
• No space in me / full of life
• the heart translates

Participants: Eszter, Bronja, Peter

Documentors:

Flow (scores, exercises, discussions…):

in trio:

• working with touch / 2 people touching 1
• the receiving person can speak or move (it took 9 mins)
• then after each round we wrote for 3 mins
• Finishing with a 1 min dance in front of the yellow mat and film a fast forward replay of our process

heart, emotion, help, space, dropping words, colors, play, performance - many possible translations

Reflections (discussions,writing, drawings…):

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