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Greenhouse
Working with Vulnerability as an empowering source of Inspiration.
What we sometimes take for granted and as a given for contemporary dance and physical theatre – people moving together, touching, and connecting in spaces, creating body sculptures, inscribing the environment with limbs and torso, sharing centres of gravity – can take on a whole new personalised meaning when it is our biographies that get written by our bodies. A series of hurdles need to be overcome to progress to dance that involves individuals moving in close proximity to one another, dance that involves intra-personal touch, or to take it even further with the partner-work inherent in contact improvisation.
An ongoing question is: how can inhibited persons discover and safely enjoy being in a place of suspension unleashed from the forces of gravity, an equivalent of free flight, and thereby discover their sense of agency, an empowering emotional and physical sense of balance?
How can contact Improvisation be used to tell personal stories, and how can we tune into our vulnerability and infuse our humanity into our dance? Weaving in and out of episodes of our lives, we explore pure and abstract contact flow on physical, psychological and emotional planes. Can we develop a whole story, a conversation, that begins with simply reaching out to shake the hand of a stranger?

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