Global Underscore

Barcelona (Modified Jam Score)

English version below (not the best translation, but made with love)

Spiral dance Centre. Calle l´ágila 9, Hostafrancs, Barcelona, España.

Organización: Natividad Insua (www.natividadinsua.com)

Facilitadoras: Ester Momblant Ribas & Natividad Insua

Músico - bailarín: Rodrigo Amadeo Gallego (www.hoek.bandcamp.com)

Video secuencia: Click aquí

Agradecimiento especial a Andrea Nacach, Mariana Beltramini, Valentina Nacach Insua y a Leticia & Daniel Estévez !

Participantes: 22 personas, mas los colaboradores, facilitadoras y organización. Total, 30 bailarines.

Inicio pequeña danza mirando a Londres

Fin pequeña danza mirando a Bruselas

Spiral Dance Centre. Nuestro espacio es una escuela de danza Mzouk (danza brasileña) que ha estado promoviendo el Contact Improvisación desde hace varios años.

La sala es espaciosa, con un techo alto, un espejo que cubre una de las paredes, telas de colores que cuelgan del techo (de las de acrobacia) y un piso de madera muy agradable.
Es un lugar confortable, que genera un ambiente muy agradable y con una energía especial.

Agradecimiento a los "colaboradores espontáneos de siempre" Antonio + David + Glòria + Mariana + Sandra y a todos los que pusieron su granito de arena

Nuestra experiencia...

La gente iba llegando poco a poco, todos muy emocionados y expectantes. Habían bailarines y estudiantes de CI, gente habitual de los Jam, gente “nueva”, gente que estaba de paso por Barcelona y quiso hacer el Underscore con nosotros, algunas otras profesoras y organizadoras de CI en Barcelona, algunas ausencias…

Dejaban su calzado en la entrada y sus cosas en una sala previa a donde haríamos el Underscore. En el espacio de danza, aún se ultimaban algunos detalles, terminábamos de colgar algunas hojas, Rodrigo, el músico, se encontraba con sus instrumentos, los primeros bailarines calentaban, todo ya con una energía especial y en bastante silencio.

Poco a poco se fue formando un gran círculo y a la hora señalada (algunos minutos mas para los mas perezosos) se cerraron las puertas del estudio, estábamos por “comenzar”.

Ya en el círculo, dijimos nuestros nombres y cómo nos sentíamos… este fue el primer momento “sentido” que nos unió (con todo lo que pasaba, incluso alguno que aún estaba desconcentrado…)

Explicamos parte de las etapas del Underscore, había gente con diferentes niveles de experiencia (y esto lo hizo muy interesante) bailarines profesionales, profesores, personas que habían aprendido el Underscore con Nancy Stark Smith, otros que lo habían practicado pero no con ella. Gente que practica Contact, pero nunca había tenido la oportunidad de vivir el Underscore, otros que casi no sabían cómo era….

Comenzamos haciendo nuestra primera “pequeña danza” y todo empezó a fluir… algunos se permitieron tomarse mas tiempo para la exploración personal, a otros se les notaba la ansiedad por “danzar”, pero poco a poco nos fuimos sintonizando, hasta llegar a estar realmente todos presentes.
Se dieron diversos y hermosos encuentros, nuestra conciencia se elevó hasta desdibujar el tiempo y el espacio, y transportarnos así, en un viaje conciente de danza compartida.

Seguimos bailando, disfrutando y dejándonos nutrir por los otros bailarines… llegamos al infinito escuchándonos…

Infinito

Me pierdo Pasión Compartimos

Me encuentro Estamos

Re-encuentro Emoción Sumamos

Descubro Creamos

Sostengo Diversión Transformamos

Me muevo Concientizamos

Acción

Transpiración

ESCUCHARNOS

….y llegamos a la pequeña danza de cara a Bruselas, y la energía era tal, que se vio pasar el sol de oeste a este….

Reflexionamos, nos contamos algunas sensaciones y Nos dijimos hasta pronto en un emotivo círculo final.

Gracias totales !!

Hasta el próximo solsticio!

English version Barcelona 2013 (Modified Jam Score)
Spiral Dance Studio. Street l'ágila 9 Hostafrancs, Barcelona, Spain.
Organization: Natividad Insua (www.natividadinsua.com)
Facilitators: Ester Momblant Ribas & Natividad Insua
Musician - Dancer: Amadeo Rodrigo Gallego (www.hoek.bandcamp.com)

Video sequence: Click aquí

Special thanks to Andrea Nacach, Mariana Beltramini, Valentina Nacach Insua and Leticia & Daniel Estevez !
Participants: 22 people, more collaborators, facilitators and organization. Total, 30 dancers.

Facing London for opening small dance
Facing Brussels for closing small dance

Spiral Dance Studio. Our space, Spiral Dance studio, is an Mzouk dance school (Brazilian dance) which has been promoting Contact Improvisation for several years.
The studio is spacious, with a high ceiling, a mirror covering one of the walls, colourful pieces of cloth hanging from the ceiling (for acrobatics), and a friendly wooden floor.
It is a comfortable place, which generates some very nice and special energy.

Appreciation "collaborators always spontaneous" Antonio + David + Gloria + Mariana + Sandra, and all of you who put their grain of sand

our experience….

People came little by little, all very excited and expectant. There were dancers and students of CI Jam normal people, people "new" people passing by Barcelona and wanted to practice Underscore us, some other teachers and organizers of CI in Barcelona, some absences ...

They left their shoes at the entrance and stuff in a room where we would before the Underscore. In the space of dance, still finalizing some details, we ended up hanging up some leaves, Rodrigo, the musician, was with their instruments, the dancers warming, all in a special energy and silence.

Little by little did a big circle and the hour appointed doors were closed (some minutes more, for the more lazy), we were to "start". Already in circle, introduced ourselves and said how we were feeling ... It was the first moment we joined

We explain some stages of the underscore, there were people with different levels of experience (was interesting) professional dancers, teachers, people who had learned the Underscore with Nancy Stark Smith. Contact Practitioners, who had not lived the Underscore, others almost did not knew what it was ....

We started doing our first "small dance" and everything began to flow ... a few allowed themselves to take more time for personal exploration, others were anxious "dance", but little by little, we went tuned, to all be present.

Were there different and beautiful meetings, our consciousness increased to blur time and space, and transport us on a trip shared conscious dance. We dancing, enjoying and nourishing us with the other dancers ... listening arrived

to infinity
Infinity

I lost Passion We share

I find We are

Re-find Emotion We add

Discover We create

I hold Fun We transform

I move we are conscientious

Action

we sweat

LISTEN at ourselves

.... and arrived at the small dance face to Brussels, and the energy was so great that we saw sun move from west to east .... We reflected, share feelings and in an emotional final circle, we said see you soon.

“ Total Thanks! ”

See you next solstice!

Buenos Aires, Argentina
modified jam

Sunday morning.Cold, winter .... A shy sun coming through the window,
More people than expected. 70 dancers wishing to share this magical global practice ....
A lot of dancing, listening, respect, encounters, gazes.
Maps traveling from one end to the other end of the world.
In Buenos Aires the Global Underscore is already a looked forward to and celebrated date.
Skineferes overlapping ...
Zoom to the other side of the planet ..
Closing circle,
An intense celebration!!
It was a very sensitive and fluid practice from start to finish.

Thanks to all!!

Let's keep in touch
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
jam modificado

Domingo a la mañana. Frío, invierno ....Un tímido sol que penetraba por la ventana,

Más gente de lo que esperábamos, 70 danzarines con deseos de compartir esta mágica práctica global....

Mucha danza, escucha, respeto, encuentros, más danza, miradas.

mapas que viajaban de una punta a la otra del mundo.

En Buenos Aires el Underscore Global ya es una cita esperada, deseada, celebrada.

Skineferas que se superponían ...

zoom hasta la otra orilla del planeta..

circulo de cierre,

Una celebracion intensa!!

Fue una práctica muy sensible y fluida de principio a fin.

Seguimos en contacto!

Gracias a todos!!

Seguimos en contacto.

Sharing from Malaysia

Facing Perth from where we are :)

Photo by David Lim

This is the first time we participated in the Global Underscore event in Malaysia. Many of us were new to the underscore, and some were even new to Contact Improvisation. However, that did not stop us from being part of it.

Most of us traveled and arrived geographically on Friday night and meet one another at an open Jam. On the following day, we all arrived together as a group for the first time, both energetically and physically (at 9:30am) to begin a briefly guided through underscore practice. Then after, we had a brief talk through of the score (it was an experiment in regards to prescriptive and descriptive aspects of the practice). In the afternoon, we continue our practice with a silence Jam, having the underscore as the frame for the Jam. The practice seems to stir some curiosity about "the score", which opened a few discussions that I had engaged with some.

On Sunday morning, we continued our practice and it is nice to observe (perhaps just my imagination) the curiosity that was stirred before was transformed from mental to physical, which makes me wonder about the prescriptive and descriptive aspects of the underscore practice. Anyway, Sunday night, between 9-9:30pm, we each began our individual arrival, each embracing our body-time while adjusting it accordingly to the clock-time till we gather at 9:30pm in the studio. At the Pow-Wow, we each randomly picked an aspect from a stack of 86 cards made from Mike Vargas 86 listening aspects. And we began the Jam from 1-2 minutes of listening before we perambulate. We "survived" the Jam till 12:15am when we resolved. After which we had a sharing. At the sharing (as it has been a practice that I had experienced with Nancy), I opened an invitation for all to continue arriving energetically and physically for a week at 9:30am (which is our first arrival at Rimbun Dahan). At around 1am, we were all at different places within the compound of Rimbun Dahan, and we did our individual small dance facing northwest to give the Global Underscore of 2013 a "." (fullstop).

Most people at the modified Jam are still at Rimbun Dahan for the Kuala Lumpur Contact Improv Festival which is right after the Global Underscore. It is nice to know that I could still arrive physically and energetically with them even though I had depart geographically from the place.

The practice continues...till the next time :)

As always, the departure opens an opportunity for the next arrival. :)

Yeong

Winchester, UK- Global Underscore

Such excitement and anticipation that Winchester could be part of this wonderful global movement! Eleven of us participated, Richard Parker, Yonat Nitzan Green, Ruth Bush, Suna Imre, Claudia Scaringella, Pav Grey, Helena Eflerova, Stacey Black, Gabriel Galvez, Bernice Fay and Erini Vavatsikon - facing Bristol for our Small Dance at the beginning and Spain (pictered above) at the end. We have been gradually building as a Contact Improvisation community here in Winchester so it felt very special that we could participate. 'Telescoping Awarenss' became a seed for our collective journey - how wonderful to zoom in and out from minute details to global awarneness!

A real treat that we had Richard Parker playing live..especially his time spent on the drums and use of voice. We had such a brilliant afternoon, thanks to everyone that made it possible.......xxx

Sanford's Experimental Edit

Here's a little experimental video edit from the underscore footage. This particular edit is more about capturing some of the overall flow (and creating a specific scene for our film). Also it makes use of some voiceover freshly recorded on monday.

https://vimeo.com/69050079

Of course this does not attempt to capture the nuance and sweetness of the day, which was after all *very* sweet and rich. We'll be able to deploy other of the footage in various other ways in the film's overall arc.

gratitude,

Sanford

Deerfield, Western MA USA