2016 Global Underscore
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O Underscore é uma estrutura de improvisação de dança codificada pela bailarina e professora de Contato Improvisação Nancy Stark Smith.
O Global Underscore é a prática simultânea em várias partes do mundo. Realizado anualmente desde 2000, durante solstício Junho e surge do desejo de unir os dançarinos do planeta em uma prática de dança e composição concomitante. (+ Info: www.globalunderscore.blogs
Facilitadores: Ana Alonso Dresler Aguilera Ricardo Neves
O Global Underscore é a prática simultânea em várias partes do mundo. Realizado anualmente desde 2000, durante solstício Junho e surge do desejo de unir os dançarinos do planeta em uma prática de dança e composição concomitante. (+ Info: www.globalunderscore.blogs
Facilitadores: Ana Alonso Dresler Aguilera Ricardo Neves
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GUS Moscow 2016
Harvesting:
"Easier
Taste
Many sounds
outgoing hands
Contact
Thanks be inside
Tight&tasty
Confluence and Divergence
Strength of will
To each his own
Warm space
Handsome male trio
Laughter and silence
I care
Three men painting red
Full void
Risk
It happened and did not happen
witnessing
Intertwined
Differences
Adoption
I'm learning to dance in the changing body
I do not know how to dance
Unexpected for
Adoption itself
Need to do something
Vast breathing
The Key"
Katya Zorina
Georgi Popov
Arseny Sokolov
Vorobyov Alia
Dmitry Usov
Dybovskaya Eugene
Anya Titova
Varya Shettsel
Yulia Chernikova
Marina Liders
Maya Levin
Katya Tupova
Kostya Tretyakov
Anastasia Glushchuk
Galina Chikova
Svetlana Ponorina
Ksenia Alekseeva
Ira Kruzhkova
Killeen Vladimir
Maxim Trifonov
Sasha Atakhanova
Olga Berdikyan
Tanya Dzikavitski
Golovin Fedor
Roman Kardapoltsov
Victor Vovk
Tatevik Ghukasyan
Lena Poluyanova
Roman Apolonsky
With thanks to everyone who has filled this evening unique taste of their dance
Facilitator Anna Titova
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С уважением
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Анна Титова
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Global Underscore 2016 Berlin
Harvest.doc
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| Ruth Pulgram |
19 June 2016
4–8 pm
Berlin, Germany
facilitators: Nancy Stark Smith, Mike Vargas, Gabi
Reuter (TanzFabrik)
participants:
Elena Paola Dragonetti, Martin Kramer, Nadja
Schwarzenbach, Lydia Kaisser, Rosalind Holgate Smith, Tanja Hübner, Gesine
Daniels, Christine Mauch, Mireia Aragones Carol, Cator Shachoy, Michelle Lui,
Olivia Platzer, Yaniv Ginton, Gabriele Reuter, Angela Mara Florant-Hafner,
Antoine Tâm Nguyen-Minh, Seung-Rok Kim, Maria Rutanen, Yoong Jung (Jean) Kim,
Elske Seidel, Gregory Chevalier, Mark Nowakowski, Ruth Pulgram, Anton Daneyko,
Inga Kleinecke, Kai Kaldrack, Petra von Ondarza, Jana Schildt, Nina
Piulats-Finger, Sabrina Miraillès, Tanja Striezel, Sabine Schnabel, Fei
Kaldrack, Anir Sabrina Barleben, Jochen Dallmer, Ulrich Brehm, Maxi Trojosky,
Jerry Lee, Peter Pleyer, Izabella Luca, Caterina Mocciola, Jennifer Döll, Yuko
Matsuyama, Andrew Wass, Diana Thielen, Christos Sideras, Maxine Saborowski,
Karina Suarez-Bosche, Foteini Dionysopoulou, Liesa Pieczyk, Lara Bogataj,
Angela Kalis, Sabrina Huth, Erik Thompson-Green, Jenny Bücken, Karen Schaffman,
Frank Van de Ven, Ayse Orhon, Antje Sroka, Inese Pavlova, Maike Stöckmann, Joe
Edelman, Katie-Lee Weille, Martin Huelse, Jo Bruhn, Jennie Zimmerman, Lou
Astrid, Viola Schlichting, Ellen Winkler, Nica Bue
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| Ruth Pulgram |
Real Time Harvest
(typed by participants during the Global Underscore)
5 minutes to five facing cape town. i perceive a bird
song coming from the yard
I see the light in the ceiling after approximately 10
min after facing cape town.
will you forgive me?
where in my body do i perceive feel notice can grasp
– the globe
us us us?
Tonality, gives us another breath, atonal breath.
i don’t need to do anything, diversity is always
there.
animal.
‘’ Observe the idiot
button
don’t be a afraid to touch the idiot
we all have uncountable buttons
that could be pushed by us
or another
who needs drugs when you can just hit
the idiot button
fuck it !
at the end of the assembly line
nancy said: Enjoy
Enjoy\Injoy
I have been enjoying in joy.\
its fun. try it.
Enjoy !
We are all the same thing doing different things the
same
Oh shit! in about 50minutes nancy might yell 5
minutes !—‘’ tarynn o
typing step by step …a dance? knocking … i open the door.
how to connect to the outside? listening to the sound
of Berlin’s voices, cars, traffic, laughing and playing children, the sound of
the city, the noise of the suburb.
do we want to invite chaos and the unknown as well?
the glass is broken but fortunately the shards are
intact
pulsing
EVERY dance is the most beautiful in my life.
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| Ruth Pulgram |
End comments, Final Harvest
when coincidence is inevitable, Sabina
where have I not been and how did I not get there -
Andrew
the silence of people, fotini
i lost it, ah wanting to fly at the same time with my
partner and both falling, anir
i heard birds singing and then i saw flamingos on the
t-shirt right it front of me,
i am touched, just seeing people’s feet and pants
hems and later recognising someone from their hems. peter p.
i found myself doing less less and less and enjoying,
Gregory
i saw my inner animal in the eyes of my partner, lisa
grace inspires poetry,
smiling babies and children squeal
and the city makes birds song with our play,
it tastes like watermelon and lime,
–eric
watermelon and lime do we swallow the seeds or spit
them out, and at the end of the Assembly the last word i heard was enjoy! from
nancy and it remained my key word throughout. Enjoy. – tarynn
i felt like i was on board a pirate ship, roz
i had an encounter and it felt like continuing a
really old dance i did many years ago. it was really nice, jennie
i just surprised myself, i had a very intense duet
and i just forget about all the things around, and the when we ended we kept
walking backwards and came back into the space, jochen
turquoise blue, grey and black, and blue trio—right
now, you’re in it—and another green one with Jennie and Diana in the sunlight,
and many individual faces soaking in the nourishment of the sun, nancy
i saw blue, men in blue and a sweat drop falling into
your t-shirt and you caught it, jochen, from your nose
A foot came on top of my foot and when it left it
left a leaf behind, Katie-Lee
Something new—going into a squat with somebody on my
lap. (that was nancy), peter
I really enjoyed the two kids being outside and
enjoying the chocolate and being in a totally different game, Diana
I remember you accidently hitting nancy’s face, and i
saw nancy enjoying
When Mike started playing, the group around me
collapsed into laughter, Yuko
I could never recall what has happened. it feels like
a distant memory but i cant recall. i remember a general feel, a cloud but not
details, they don’t stick with me, Anton
At one point you really surprised me, Mike. there was
a piano chord, silence, and then another note, which continued, and at the same
time you were playing the melodica on the other side of the room. who was
playing the piano? it was a mystery, nancy
It is always a delight to be able to play a grand
tuned piano. It was a delight to be able to improvise with all of you, Mike
Now i see that we all have other faces, Karina
The planned coincidence between Mike’s “birdsong”
underscore and the birdscore at the end, Yaniv
There was a magic moment with the music, Kai
The art of Energy in the underscore 70 people it
always amazes me that there is an art of energy, it’s quiet then it builds then
maybe again quiet and then another rise, beyond the individual there is
collective, Cator
There was a sense of surrender to the collective that
was very pleasurable to me,
Having a fun moment with the idiot button and i
wondered if i was actually pressing it, then i bumped my head against the wall
and i felt like i am not the only idiot, thank you all for being idiots with
me. Anir
At the end i was looking at the map and thinking that
maybe one day there is a dance without boundaries, Nika
I took a long time in the beginning and developing
from there and i think it was the first time i did the shakedown standing and i
will teach it; I think it’s great. And
in a moment i became the grass that people were grazing on. it was
brilliant, Gesine
The idea of composition was new for me in a jam. i never had applied the idea of composing
something, I never worked really with the wholeness of the situation, which
opened up a whole new area of ideas. I felt like i was collecting ideas. it was
a lot of fun, Ines
Really delicate music. it was supporting and it was
never dominant, I think it was a real art, it was a just being with the
improvisation, and discovering my feet fetishes, Antje
There was a moment when i accidently hit my partner
and she immediately slapped me back and I was really surprised, martin
….It was a very funny moment in deed
ummm… i came from Korea, the other part of the
continent but it felt very familiar to dance without boundaries somehow i felt
very familiar dancing with all the people together, Jean
somebody speaks in Korean
I was standing at the end of the space and watching
somebody on the street and he came and watched from the window and then i saw
Yaniv pressing his face against the window then i was imagining seeing this jam
for the first for time and how does it feel, Elske
Yaniv….speaks in Hebrew
I realized that I was very aware of these other
places, and in the small dance i was visiting different places, and i thank
Claire Filmon for this idea to have a simultaneous underscore and the others
that have kept it going until now. Nancy
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those five minutes … facing Halle
Saale, westward ho, almost over …
Post Underscore
Harvest:
I’m grounding with the help
of the sun…where is my home?
I know it now…
“””””””””””””””””””””””””””””” . . . “”””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””
Bird Song
Rain Drops
Thunder
Wild Waves
Calm Sea
Rises Again
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This underscore is a total
mess. God these people have no sense of composition. What can we do about it?
oh dear
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I climbed on a moving rock.
I thought I had climbed it before. However, as it shifted, so did I and I
recognized the rock no more. I adapted myself as the rock was shifting into a
dune.
The landscape has
disappeared and I am left. Landscaping. Escaping.
And returning.
The end was graceful.
I thank for that.
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we didn’t dance with
eachother
however
we danced together…….\
Tarynn
o
Thank you, GUS16 coordinators, Nancy Hughes, Brandin
Steffensen, and Patrick Crowley, for connecting us all in this dance!
love,
Nancy, Mike, and Berlin Global Underscore 2016!
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| Ruth Pulgram |
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Córdoba, Argentina
Global Underscore 2016
Harvest
Cordoba, early winter.
The Global Underscore coincided with three days workshop of Contact Improvisation in Ramona Space (Centre for Education and Cultural Production).
During the workshop we had the opportunity to share the Underscore with the people involved and practice simultaneously with the world.
The Underscore framework allowed us to deepen, reflect on our practice of Contact Improvisation and celebrate the meeting.
It was a very profound experience, inspired, contained and sustained by the Underscore and the presence of each of you. Thank you very much to all!!!
Participants:
Luciana Maltez, Florencia Campise, María José Guzmán, Paula Vera, Camila Vaudagnotto, Violeta Boll, Luca Pacella, Ariana Andreolli, Paula Lionetto, Romina Navarro, Belén Calarraga, Iván Baucia y Andrea Fernández
Ciudad de Córdoba, inicio del invierno
El Global Underscore coincidió con un seminario de tres días de Contact Improvisación en el Espacio Ramona (Centro de Formación y Producción Cultural).
Durante el seminario tuvimos la oportunidad de compartir el Underscore con las personas que participaron y practicarlo en simultáneo con el mundo.
El marco del Underscore nos permitió profundizar, reflexionar sobre nuestra práctica de Contact Improvisación y celebrar el encuentro.
Ha sido una experiencia muy profunda, inspiradora, contenida y sostenida por el Underscore y la presencia de cada uno de ustedes.
Muchísimas gracias a todos!!!
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Kuang, Malaysia
"Not only about shaking, Agitating the mass can be like making a sushi."
"This container allows us to create without being judged. The limits of this score make this more limitless."
"The container started empty, filled with expectations, then overflowed."
"Bonding to another body."
"When I dance, I always get better."
"I got the gap!"
"It's so hard to predict the future. Why don't we just stay in the present?"
"This container allows us to create without being judged. The limits of this score make this more limitless."
"The container started empty, filled with expectations, then overflowed."
"Bonding to another body."
"When I dance, I always get better."
"I got the gap!"
"It's so hard to predict the future. Why don't we just stay in the present?"
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Global UNDERSCORE 2016 Shenzhen, China
1/F, Converge Dragon Garden, Shangmeilin, Shenzhen, China
June 19
8pm Talk-through
10pm-2am GUS
10:50pm opening 5 min global Small Dance, facing the next site to the east according to the map: Shanghai, China
[However, Shanghai did the score earlier..... but 10:55pm is the closing Small Dance of Shanghai facing us.... ]
1:55am closing global Small Dance, facing the next site to the west according to the map: Kuang, MALAYSIA ( KL Contact Festival )
Timelaspe video:
Video clips:
fb event page:
Participants:
1. 丸仔 yuenjie Maru (Hong Kong)
2. 兩口米 Mimi Lo (Hong Kong)
3. 王剑锋 Wang Jianfeng
4. 彭宇 Peng yu
5. 李彩霞 Li cai xia
6. 孙冉 Sun ran
7. 唐常丽 Tong chong-li (Chóngqìng重庆)
8. 周慧敏 Alily
9. 小龙 xiao long
10. 王小暖 Emily
11. 李琼 Li Qiong
12. 李碧琼 Li Bi Qing
13.宋成 Seven
14. 陳美彤 Chan Mei Tung (Hong Kong)
15. 叶妙玲 YemiaoLing (Dongguang)
16. 石林敬紫 Elsie
17. 石薏琳 Angela
18. 馬希欣 Liane Mah (Hong Kong)
19. 王小樹 Kiwi
20. 刘泓一 Hong Yi (Beijing)
21. 吴玉玲 Ling
22. 白洁 Blanche
23. 冯建武 Feng Jian Wu
24. 付彬彬 Belinda
25. 胡月红 Moon (Guangzhou)
26. 王梦 Wangmeng
27. 小美 Mayson Fung (Hong Kong)
28. 圆圆肚肚 yuanyuandudu (Guangzhou)
29. 杨夏青 Yang Xiaqing [leave earlier]
30. 余彥衡 Yu Yanheng
31. 李炳雁 Li Bing Yan [Arriving during Pow-wow]
32. 孙贝贝 SunBeiBei [Arriving during Pow-wow]
33. 陈丹 Chen Dan [Arriving during Pow-wow]
34. 郑志浩 Zhengzhihao [Arriving during Pow-wow]
35. 修源 Alex, Xiu yuan [Arriving during Pow-wow]
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Beijing had a beautiful underscore this year. We had 17 participants and danced at night when the moon was full. We had a gorgeous soundscape of singing and percussion, and small dances towards our non-synchronized neighbours in Shanghai and Shenzhen. This was only our second time doing the global underscore, and we look forward to dancing again next year!
Beijing Contact Improv
Participants:
Yang Rui
Annie Wien
Nastya Shu
沃王 Wo Wang
Cass Gong
炎琦 Yan Qi
潘晓楠 Pan Xiaonan
Ping
Jessie
铁阳 Tie Yang
李丹 Li Dan
布龟 Bugui
Becky Stroud
铁阳 Tie Yang
李丹 Li Dan
布龟 Bugui
Becky Stroud
王艺潾 Wang Yilin
Jan Philipp 杨菲利
Jan Philipp 杨菲利
Rosalyn Shih
Wenfeng Ge
Wenfeng Ge
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Global UNDERSCORE 2016 Hong Kong
June 19 Non-Synchronous
9am Talk-through
10:30-13:30 GUS
11:20 opening 5 min global Small Dance, facing the next site to the east according to the map: Shanghai, China
13:15 closing global Small Dance, facing the next site to the west according to the map: Shenzhen, China
and we share strawberry after closing outside the studio due to the strawberry full moon on Jun 20.
Video clips:
Timeslaspe video:
fb event page:
Participants:
1. yuenjie MARU
2. Mimi Lo
3. Ka Yuen, Kwok
4. Suie Lo
5. David Leung
6. Agnes Chung
7. Kiwi Chan
8. Kristy Janvier
9. Mayson Fung
Some of the Harvest:
David Leung: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you (I thanked the turtle as well). My seed was "limits". Over the past twenty years of practicing contact improv, what has made me enjoy it most has been its limitlessness. Yet, I drew this card which says "limits" today. I was a bit amused, and took to what Maru said about letting the seed go, and just watching its effect, if any, on the underscore practice. I found something very interesting: that whether it's limits or opportunities really depended on my perspective. Something that stops me could be something that asks me to go around in a new direction; something that keeps me flowing could be something that keeps me trapped in a certain state.
Depending on my state of mind, I can be having a wonderful moment or a dreadful one.
Agnes Bear: 身體接觸是能量的傳遞,互相影響,開心快樂互相影響無分國界; 面對死亡,人類一樣互相纏結一起,彼此依靠。既然知道,人類, 在(當適)選擇,亦未為晚也。身體是最誠實的實體,
Mimi Lo: 「外太空的聲音，來自牆腳的鐵扣子。
地上的圓點，是尋找多啦A夢的路徑。
沒什麼要發生，又有很多發生了。
打開身軀，自然有期待的觸碰。
遠在天邊，卻又近在眼前。
精密的佈局，每刻都在身邊。」
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GUS @ Monterrey, NL, México
The walkthrough is explained with Kandisky’s points and lines to bust our graphical perspective of skinesphere and kinesphere. We saw many kinds of connections between dancers this year during the Jam. There was also more attention to Agitating the mass, Resolution and Introspectiveness.
With white paper, some crayons and a special moment of our dance in mind; the dancers drew an easy to read representation of that experience. The drawings resemble the symbols of the underscore.
During the circle we all explained our drawings, and at the same time how we felt during the different stages, the sensations and emotions.
One drawing from the harvest is about an image received during the East small dance: two diamonds. During the West small dance two people receive a crying experience towards the end, and one experienced a light energy flow coming from the stomach.
While ‘sharing’ one of the dancers wanted to know a little more about Nancy Stark and the beginnings of contact improvisation.
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Fleet Moves Dance Festival
Hello Global Underscore Organizers,
I'm writing with some moments of harvest from our practice. We did the small dances with facings, plus an outdoor Underscore that came to its final resolution organically, and used lunch as our Harvesttime. It was really helpful to be able to use this as a starting practice to our weeklong festival in Wellfleet and gave us a satisfying sense of telescoping way way out before honing in on specific and local projects.
Love from Wellfleet,
Zena and Fleet Moves Dance Festival
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the global underscore dancers in freiburg, germany at 19:54
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Harvest from Thora Australia
Hello GUSers
For us the time of the event was midnight to 4AM Monday morning. A bit late for the busy week. So...
We put ourselves to bed with the kids then woke at 10:30pm to have an underscore duet that would finish with a small dance to coincide with the beginning Stand for everyone else. We have a lovely dance space as the top story of our little wooden cabin in the lush rainforest of Thora Valley, the photo is of that cabin just before we began. It had been raining all day yet had stopped when we woke to dance.
A harvest poem by Benn DeMole:
GUS16
Two alone, together
The dripping forest outside
Kids asleep
Chooks asleep
Possums on the prowl
I begin to move
Then She does too
Two together moving
Then moving together
The tired body doesn't want much weight
Prefers to enjoy to touch, then wait
A slow evolution
No other dance to join
A commitment
Elsewhere they are gathering
Their journey's have begun
Will we join in unison
A poetry unsung
That touch is what's important
I'll make it step instead of roll
A choice, a pivot
Don't think, revisit
An old memory of other evenings
Late night dances, other bodies
A pause, a gap, for the baby's cry
Don't move, now she quiet, a little left to feel
I move my foot and the dance begins again
Soon we will sleep, a gap, to dance again
First we Stand, streaming, believing
I find my silence
Then let the dance begin.
Thank you, so awesome to be part of the global again.
Smiles
Benn & Catriona
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Newcastle, Australia
Modified Non-synchronous jam
Participants:
Annette Nathalia
Joanna Lin
Bron Lin
Michael Goode
Michelle Turnbull
Laurianne Gwilliam
Owen Davis
Ian Ferguson
Tom Britten
Shoshanna Hindmarsh
Natasha Grbic
Sonia Brown
Joanna Lin
Bron Lin
Michael Goode
Michelle Turnbull
Laurianne Gwilliam
Owen Davis
Ian Ferguson
Tom Britten
Shoshanna Hindmarsh
Natasha Grbic
Sonia Brown
Luke Falcon
Peta Lumley
Poem by Annette: "Reflections"
smile
inward and outward
possibilities
many and more
not knowing
alive and magic
outward
open and free
inward
conscious and beating
smile
are you glad you came?
Poem by Shoshanna:
Tragic light
Poetic darkness
Rims of Fire
Potent Sharpness
Make me sing
Make me soar
Breath in, Shine out
Free me more & more
Magnetic light
Beaconing ray
Transmitting Power
Rising Strong Day by Day
Volcanic Ash
Roaring Flame
Cherishing movements
No Shame
Notes by Peta:
The power of resistance. Showing that you are there. Open up possibilities. Being held - nice. Beautiful. A moment of contact without touch. Rain.
Notes by Luke:
Heiroglyph expressing energy of overall underscore (see attached)
Enjoyed Ian's rhythmical breathing. Really felt i knew where i was in the dance following that pattern of ebbing breath. Ocean waves. Flowing
Sonia & Michael holding stillness at the end - a proper ending. Watching them hold the space in silent firm stillness.
Discovery
Balance
Courage
New steps
Fullness
Completion
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Auckland, New Zealand
names of the participants: Kerry, Clare, Christina, Xin, Tess
a description of your location: dance studio with windows on one side, brick wall on the other, grey floor
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a description of your location: dance studio with windows on one side, brick wall on the other, grey floor
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the extra long small dance, waiting allowing:
- creative space in the perception of the surroundings
different sounds for different movements
waiting in small dance, waiting, see what came up
loosening of body, opening
spaciousness, supple, flexible, flux
playing, allowing
passing clouds, changing lights
wordless river
morphing, sliding, resting
geometries of the body, fitting in changing ways
constant listening and responding: what will fit the situation now?
shifting the dynamic of the space
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Groningen, Holland 
1974 in 2016
Illusion of time
Connection the centre
connectIon to people
Contact is also possible without the touch
Gratitude for the openness
As if we know each other for a long time
How sensitive I became
overwhelmed by the sound
Every movement felt like truth
we were all on a boat sailing to neverneverland
Drawing
A way of taking time for myself
Dance it! Musical, moving interpretation of drawing
Continuous engagement
Die hard jam
Playing with laughter = liberating
Live music is very rich
As a musician, it's as if you touch everybody at the same time...
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Is awesome to be part of such a huge movement around the globe, greetings dancers fellows! :)
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