Category: Research
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Dance: finding the balance of the self within the group
Casper: Becky please tell us something about the path that led you to start working with people with chronic illness and/or disability. Becky: I had a growing sense that I wanted to help people that were suffering, through dance. It was so clear to me that dance is so therapeutic. All dancers know how we…
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To perform or not to perform? Well to perform, then!
Barefoot Sound Kitchen, a workshop format for non-musicians to join in on a collective sound improvisation with people they might not ever have met before.
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Consume! Consume!? Create!!
There was a lady saying: “This looks so simple, but having to actually use your voice in these microphones it made my heart beat double as fast!”. I guess we all have had this dream: You are standing on a stage, and you are supposed to perform something, maybe a ballet, maybe a solo piano…
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Non-verbal communication, – a world of valuable information
Non-verbal communication is a source of valuable information that we can dig into, but only when we see the need.
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How Time Can Dispossess: On Duration and Movement in Contemporary Performance
“Due to the accelerated and project-like character of our inner time, the subject finds himself in a no man’s land if something does not function or if nothing goes on; he feels as though the duration intrudes upon him and, paradoxically, steals his most intimate time (which is actually heavily managed by the contemporary apparatuses)”
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How can sound help us building our collectives?
Gestures with our faces, bodies and voices are all intertwined channels of communication, and it makes a lot of sense to regard them in a holistic way. For a moment, however, let’s look at what happens in the interactions we have through sound alone. And how this affects our capacity for building sustainable collectives.
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We need tools for building sustainable collectives
Building a collective is about listening to the other, about trying to understand the other’s world, and try to find a ground for building a new common world. We usually do this through words. This is smart when we talk with people that we are already agreeing with. But what about those with whom we…
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What makes us a collective?
The current discourse around sustainability has a tendency to focus on either the level of the individual or “society” as a whole. We need to take into account the level of the collective. We need to understand the workings of our everyday life connections in larger and smaller circles and find ways to connect them…
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Unveiling the gestural aspects that are hidden in our voice
“As the voice is invisible, we can make it visible through a gesture or a drawing during the act of vocalization”
Building Sound Collectives 