To let things unfold(by Catching the Centre)

• This article is discussing and presenting insights gained through the research project To let things unfold (by catching the centre) conducted by Jan Burkhardt and Cecilia Roos between 2016-2018 and financed by Stockholm University of the Arts. The research started with the pilot study Gestures of exchange from a shared interest in how performers exchange methods during an artisticprocess and our aim was to explore different ways of articulating that. During that study we realized that our interest was rather in howwe can experience each other’s methods through sensation. That brought us into To let things unfold (by catching the centre),where we have been working on expanding the notions of sensation and practicing different ways that experiences of sensation can be used as a material in choreographic processes. The questions we have asked ourselves are: What is the role of sensation inchoreographic processes? In what ways are sensations exchanged, transformed and transacted between performers in a creativeprocess? What kind of possibilities can emerge out of purposelessness? The act of sharing became our primary research practice supported by sensation as one of the fundaments for sharing.

Keyword

Dance

practice

methods

workshop

process

sharing

Artistic practices

Konstnärliga praktiker

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art (subject category)

kfu (subject category)