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Moving the Nomadic Body
How do I structure the map of my ephemeral physical space-time?
Movement and language create space. They create time.
The entanglement of imagination and language in our bodies creates kinetic representations.
‘Moving the nomadic body’ applies movement and choreography as tools of critical thinking, awareness, and political action.
It it a workshop of kinetic composition in which the body moves in the real and the imaginary, while choosing to influence and get influenced.
The body is characterized as a complex entity. The body creates spaces and this is expressed by its performativity in space.
Following the feminist geographer Massey, the workshop activates the three notions of space: discursive - imaginary - corporeal and aims to build new maps.
The workshop offers a different way of interacting with the written words and the reasoning space. How our body, by choosing to reject the hierarchy of the mind in understanding language, can perceive and move language differently?
The more sensitive the body is in its ‘ relational representations’, the more power has to act and inform space as a practice of possibilities, shaped by continuous representations and effects of self and other material relations.
The term ‘nomadic body’ has been influenced by the theory of nomadic subjectivity (Deleuze, Guattari, 1985) by stating free thought that travels away from domination and categorization. A nomadic body that perceives the ‘worn standard notions of hegemony’ and moves away from passivity and stagnation.
| Dance Practitioner |
My Research
How can the tools of 'expanded' choreography be situated within the milieu of the pedagogic act? This question drove the research of the participatory choreographic project “The Nomadic School of Moving Thought”. The project explored the intersections between unconventional choreographic tools and pedagogy, aiming at shifting learning from being mind-centered to bodying-centered by exposing the importance of the multiplicity of the relational body within the learning process.
The research took multiple directions on ‘making, attending, performing' for both the learner and the dance practitioner following a rhizomatic approach.
The project captured the moving thought of the participants as an awareness of where learning happens, identifying bodies and spaces as collections of temporalities.
The post-qualitative analytical process manifested in different affective performative spaces, and foregrounded the creative engagement of the participants, exposing the entwined relationship between human and non- human.
The fusion between expanded choreography and pedagogy upholds the transition from a space of performance of power to an open-ended, expansive space of ethical sensible entities.
Get in contact, if you wish to learn more or if you wish to activate the project again.
Collaboration in Research
I took part as a member in the 'NOMADIC ACADEMY', a project by Anna Konjetzky. Funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with the support of the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. With friendly support of the Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich.
I took part as a member in the research group in the two academies: In Athens in 2020, and in Munich in 2021.
In Athens we research around the themes of alternative spaces, free spaces, alternative roads and border(s), under the heading ‘mapping the unseen’ using a range of practical and theoretical methods.
We continued around the themes of: visibilities and representation, around power structures, and borders (within a society, within a city). We took the question of the covered rivers, to question general politics and body politics, where does it happen to hide things, to push out of the field of vision, because it is not ‘clean‘ enough. So who cleans what? and who? and who cleans up after us? (waste, queer visibility, human waste…)
In March 2021 the first part of the 2nd Munich Platform of the NOMADIC ACADEMY had the title “Allies and Alienation”. Due to the remote situation, Anna Konjetzky developed a format for resonances, a chain-structure/ exchange, where we have worked digitally. (https://nomadic-academy-ak.com/chains/)
In June 2021, we have managed to travel so, the part of the 2nd Munich Platform of the NOMADIC ACADEMY took place under the headline “alliances, connection and care”; In addition to internal research with the permanent Munich group of artists, we worked also with associations and initiatives, such as the group JUNO – a voice for refugee women.
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