Caty Castilla
Hector Mireles
Denise Longoria
Esteban Fredin
Benjamin Cortes
Catarina Li
Daniel Ontiveros
Seeding:
Color chalk and sound
Facing: Barcelona & Tel Aviv
Important GUS info
Monterrey, México
Participants:
Caty Castilla
Hector Mireles
Denise Longoria
Esteban Fredin
Benjamin Cortes
Catarina Li
Daniel Ontiveros
Seeding:
Color chalk and sound
Facing: Barcelona & Tel Aviv
Caty Castilla
Hector Mireles
Denise Longoria
Esteban Fredin
Benjamin Cortes
Catarina Li
Daniel Ontiveros
Seeding:
Color chalk and sound
Facing: Barcelona & Tel Aviv
Harvest: Global UNDERSCORE 2017 Shenzhen, China
24 June
8pm Talk-through
10pm-2am GMT+8 GUS
10:50pm opening 5 min global Small Dance facing Evanston, IL USA
1:55am closing global Small Dance facing Bonn, Germany
Participants:
1. 丸仔 yuenjie MARU (Hong Kong)
2. 兩口米 Mimi Lo (Hong Kong)
3. 王剑锋 JF_Wang
4. 張敏宜 Cheung Man yee (Hong Kong)
5. 黄伟辉 Aply
6. 罗奇 Lucky (Hunan 湖南) [leave earlier]
7. 塔伽 Tajia [leave earlier]
8. 圆圆肚肚 Spring (Gansu 甘肅)
9. 阿丹 Adan (Sichuan 四川)
10. 爱兰兰 Yolanda
11. 黎振宇 Ali
12. 洺钰 Sophiria [leave earlier]
13. 卷卷毛 Jo-mon
14. 李硕 ivy [leave earlier]
15. 刘霞 Lucia Liu [leave earlier]
16. 周慧敏 Seven
17. 蔡述群 Sean Cai (Chaozhou 潮州)
18. 蒜蓉酱 Garlic (Beijing 北京)
19. 刘姝 Vivi [leave earlier]
20. 李琼 Li Qiong [leave earlier]
21. 孙贝贝 SunBeiBei [leave earlier]
22. 袁墨 Mono [Arriving during Assembly]
Timelaspe videos:
GUS-SZ https://youtu.be/9ryQJ2SrNGg
Talk-through https://youtu.be/do_K-kerCdw
fb event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/167485620451590/
Wechat group live harvest:
Maru: 活躍, 累? 呼吸, 经过
Maru: https://youtu.be/XQj89cZ1zgg
Maru: 墨和柒的裤子巧合
Maru: 慢点慢点慢点
Maru: 撞
Maru: 4人2人1人
Maru: 空间
Maru: 形状
Ali: 空间内有一些单独的点，会不会如我一样，看起来在避免接触，其实是期待着以自己能够接受的方式发生？ 如果有这样的点存在，我是不是可以尝试探索？
Seven: 感觉身体的苏醒
Seven: 触点转换在身体不同的位置，节奏也跟着转变…
Aply: 当我抽到“色彩”这张卡片的时候，我脑海里面想到了很多关于色彩的画面，什么彩虹啊菜花啊，对！还有酸菜，当然还有在场舞蹈发出的笑声也是一种色彩。可是，我不知道怎样才能把“色彩”这么具象又抽象的词语表现出来，当我开始转牛角尖的时候我突然很害怕：我是不是过着一个黑白的生活？
Aply: 现在我还是没想到“色彩”这个词，所以有一次走到种子卡片面前，希望能给予我另一个答案，一个我能想的出的另一个答案，可是，我竟然有些像是在乞求一样，拿着卡片的一瞬间，嘴角布满了笑意，让我感到：哈哈，老子解脱了的错觉，是的，是错觉，因为在闭着眼睛去摸卡片的时候，心里想到了一个词：忏悔，然后心里一直在默念，要是抽到心里想的那一个词那有多神奇啊……可惜，抽到的是序列，我懊恼了为什么不是忏悔呢？又为什么要是呢？夜晚，给了思考的另一个空间，难得。
Seven: 遇到小辉，这次很贴心帮忙按了腰椎，感受到深度的力感…然后，身体放松后，一直感受到那个部位…
Ali: “酸菜”老司机带路，车终于启动上路了。
post-harvest from 圆圆肚肚 Spring:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI4NjM0MzU0NA==&mid=2247483872&idx=1&sn=6a07ded25dd6fff491b2d0723bd04c56&chksm=ebdf29f7dca8a0e19b8890de4bbd88643f402d5a8d526be0e2f33904bd12f0e00f886398fd88&mpshare=1&scene=1&srcid=0625pYcx9CcNNngkkX6FYPbo#rd
post-harvest from 王剑锋 JF_Wang:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzA4NTk2MTg0Ng==&mid=2649637379&idx=1&sn=f9bcb0fb4a1f4114532f5f5aefb143db&chksm=87d51f1ab0a2960c3fe7a6f8b35c3ab74ec4a18dc7b1d852bcfb2127914343eae530658ef36b&mpshare=1&scene=1&srcid=0627F3bdXD7TnbWqRTRLEjfs#rd
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| opening small dance facing Evanston, IL USA |
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| open score |
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| Sharing |
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| by Maru |
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| by Mimi |
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| Coincidence |
EPIICO, México, Ciudad de México
En una zona de respiración en esta inmensa ciudad, respiramos ... girando en esferas... transitando ... tejiendo conexiones, divirtiéndonos ... en familia... SILENTES
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On a breathing zone of this huge city we breath...... turning on spheres.... transitioning....weaving connections, on fun... on family... SILENT
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Earthdance, Plainfield, MA USA
Dancers:
Maggie Wickenden, Annette Urbschat, Leslie Cerier, Charles Dietrich,
Rob Olmsted, Pauline Lefebvre, Rythea Lee,
Adam Brady, Katie Aylward, Christine Cole, Kelly Bitov, Meredyth Klotz, Felice Wolfzahn,
Julie Rosier, Ali Skalli, Kelsey Hobbs, Anna
Maynard, Katerina Saligari, Sarah Young, Patrick Crowley, Torielle Lee.
Earthdance, Plainfield, MA USA Global Underscore Harvest 2017
Anna
We alternate in organizing ourselves underneath one another to offer a structure of support. There are no promises that it will withstand the compounding pressures of a body balancing on top. It is a risk we mutually choose to take. Half of the fun is in seeing what works out, the risk we take, what feels good, what offers flight, and the feeling of strength, disorientation, beauty, and falling. How do we fall? Are we caught by surprise? Are we able to safely navigate our selfs and the other down to the ground all in one motion?
I have questions coming up around strength.
How am I stronger than I think I am?
Where am I not strong enough?
Where is there potential to build strength?
How long will it take?
What will it take?
Devotion? Choice? Love?
Compassion for my self and my weakness.
Do I have the strength to look another in the eye when I am afraid?
Afraid of them, afraid of my self.
Can I hold the weight of your body?
Or will I collapse underneath.
How will we fall?
Will we fall into each other, will we fall away?
Will we fall with grace?
Rythea Lee:
It's as if I've been waiting, why do I do this? I wait to "get in my body" but then it's really true. Here I am and I've arrived and it's the biggest relief. Where was I before? Is it that old thing about the left brain? If so, the left brain sucks. I'm not a fan. I've now arrived with people all over the globe into our RIGHT brains, ha ha ha. This is the right place for me. I can feel you over there in Argentina and Uraguay and on the outskirts of Japan? I can feel us here in the right place for me. This place is CONNECTED to NOT WAITING. And that's such a priveledge. And what if I hadn't found dance and contact improvisation, and WEIGHT, would I have WAITED forever?????
My daughter enters the room in a white dress. She is smiling. We have a contact dance that feels like spirit birds in joy. She leans back while resting on my forelegs. Someone comes over and takes her arms. We rock her and she just hangs. She runs to someone she knows in the center of the room, Sarah, and sits in her lap while dancers move around them. She is in the right place. She is 5 years old and this is normal for her.
I loved the opening stand. I loved crying for the people who cannot move because it feels so much better than shutting down. I loved that I could love them and that my heart can still break. I do break. I am breaking.
The Underscore waits for me. For us. It never gives up.
Kelly
I enter a strange altered reality with different rules of perception, and strange things can happen, and i come back to to circle and i think we all know that we were all just there but it seems to be that we are all acting normal now and sitting once again in a circe. (eyes looking around) A funny contrast
Sarah
The Underscore as a psychic or fortune teller when I enter into the U’S I find how I am really doing. (How are you doing?) I think there is really a physiological shift in my state. Now I feel more grounded, I can feel my weigh into my earth and i feel time has slowed down a littlest and I feel just more present and a little nauseous.
Annette
I appreciate the length of time and now were in the period of time in millisecond/ To immerse and go in and ride hat long wave.
Adam
I think it is always nice, and I find it particularly the US, what ever space i am in there is a place for it, compositional, there seems to be a greater intelligence, I am always curious to why I feel that, in the U’S, it just feels easier to weave in and out of what ever it is that is making me curious. The group intelligence that helps notice the difference.
Mary Hannah
Appreciation to the invitation of “you are still in.” I think it helped me change my expectations on how I needed to be or how I needed to feel or be. step out of the feeling that What I am doing determine wether I am in or out. It felt nice to walk into the library for an moment and sit down and still be with you and my self, and everyone around the world.
Charles
I appreciate having the time to dance and what it is to experience it. It is so nice to be in this space.
Patrick
I wanted to say as a seed the idea of a group “thing” going on, a group feeding— I forgot to say that at the beginning, so I thought it is not going to happen, and then it ended up happening. To feel the silent seed happening, and also feeling a kind of connection with the perambulation, the way we connect with everyone, the grazing and the idea of these swarms and groups working together, and then expanding out to the larger group. Also I appreciated he continuity of attention, we didn’t drop it even when people went outside.
Christine
I chose to sit out to reset myself, very very early, in Skinesphere, people were still on the ground, I felt I was in the soup of my own thing. “What is this all about, does it matter? Let me just look, let me just see,” So I just sat. So I trusted the rest of the room to be taking care of them selfs, to be doing what it was that they want to be doing. I felt like i was watching pigeons pecking, just people dabbling and grazing. Meeting my own expectations and looking at how that meets the reality of things. I have such high expectations that I should be supremely connected even in my determinate state, and I think that is a little too much.
Leslie
I am feeling really grateful. Super connected, I really enjoyed finding the gored and taking the time all kinds of places in my body that weren’t quite ready yet to move. I just really took my time and going out side.
Julie
I am feeling really lucky that the animals let me play with them. I made a fort for a baby squirrel.
Earthdance, Plainfield, MA USA Global Underscore Harvest 2017
Anna
We alternate in organizing ourselves underneath one another to offer a structure of support. There are no promises that it will withstand the compounding pressures of a body balancing on top. It is a risk we mutually choose to take. Half of the fun is in seeing what works out, the risk we take, what feels good, what offers flight, and the feeling of strength, disorientation, beauty, and falling. How do we fall? Are we caught by surprise? Are we able to safely navigate our selfs and the other down to the ground all in one motion?
I have questions coming up around strength.
How am I stronger than I think I am?
Where am I not strong enough?
Where is there potential to build strength?
How long will it take?
What will it take?
Devotion? Choice? Love?
Compassion for my self and my weakness.
Do I have the strength to look another in the eye when I am afraid?
Afraid of them, afraid of my self.
Can I hold the weight of your body?
Or will I collapse underneath.
How will we fall?
Will we fall into each other, will we fall away?
Will we fall with grace?
Rythea Lee:
It's as if I've been waiting, why do I do this? I wait to "get in my body" but then it's really true. Here I am and I've arrived and it's the biggest relief. Where was I before? Is it that old thing about the left brain? If so, the left brain sucks. I'm not a fan. I've now arrived with people all over the globe into our RIGHT brains, ha ha ha. This is the right place for me. I can feel you over there in Argentina and Uraguay and on the outskirts of Japan? I can feel us here in the right place for me. This place is CONNECTED to NOT WAITING. And that's such a priveledge. And what if I hadn't found dance and contact improvisation, and WEIGHT, would I have WAITED forever?????
My daughter enters the room in a white dress. She is smiling. We have a contact dance that feels like spirit birds in joy. She leans back while resting on my forelegs. Someone comes over and takes her arms. We rock her and she just hangs. She runs to someone she knows in the center of the room, Sarah, and sits in her lap while dancers move around them. She is in the right place. She is 5 years old and this is normal for her.
I loved the opening stand. I loved crying for the people who cannot move because it feels so much better than shutting down. I loved that I could love them and that my heart can still break. I do break. I am breaking.
The Underscore waits for me. For us. It never gives up.
Kelly
I enter a strange altered reality with different rules of perception, and strange things can happen, and i come back to to circle and i think we all know that we were all just there but it seems to be that we are all acting normal now and sitting once again in a circe. (eyes looking around) A funny contrast
Sarah
The Underscore as a psychic or fortune teller when I enter into the U’S I find how I am really doing. (How are you doing?) I think there is really a physiological shift in my state. Now I feel more grounded, I can feel my weigh into my earth and i feel time has slowed down a littlest and I feel just more present and a little nauseous.
Annette
I appreciate the length of time and now were in the period of time in millisecond/ To immerse and go in and ride hat long wave.
Adam
I think it is always nice, and I find it particularly the US, what ever space i am in there is a place for it, compositional, there seems to be a greater intelligence, I am always curious to why I feel that, in the U’S, it just feels easier to weave in and out of what ever it is that is making me curious. The group intelligence that helps notice the difference.
Mary Hannah
Appreciation to the invitation of “you are still in.” I think it helped me change my expectations on how I needed to be or how I needed to feel or be. step out of the feeling that What I am doing determine wether I am in or out. It felt nice to walk into the library for an moment and sit down and still be with you and my self, and everyone around the world.
Charles
I appreciate having the time to dance and what it is to experience it. It is so nice to be in this space.
Patrick
I wanted to say as a seed the idea of a group “thing” going on, a group feeding— I forgot to say that at the beginning, so I thought it is not going to happen, and then it ended up happening. To feel the silent seed happening, and also feeling a kind of connection with the perambulation, the way we connect with everyone, the grazing and the idea of these swarms and groups working together, and then expanding out to the larger group. Also I appreciated he continuity of attention, we didn’t drop it even when people went outside.
Christine
I chose to sit out to reset myself, very very early, in Skinesphere, people were still on the ground, I felt I was in the soup of my own thing. “What is this all about, does it matter? Let me just look, let me just see,” So I just sat. So I trusted the rest of the room to be taking care of them selfs, to be doing what it was that they want to be doing. I felt like i was watching pigeons pecking, just people dabbling and grazing. Meeting my own expectations and looking at how that meets the reality of things. I have such high expectations that I should be supremely connected even in my determinate state, and I think that is a little too much.
Leslie
I am feeling really grateful. Super connected, I really enjoyed finding the gored and taking the time all kinds of places in my body that weren’t quite ready yet to move. I just really took my time and going out side.
Julie
I am feeling really lucky that the animals let me play with them. I made a fort for a baby squirrel.
Glasgow Harvest
A real chance for connection to far beyond ourselves, the studio and Glasgow.
Penny Chivas
Alasdair Sim
Ron M
Teresa
Dave
Johannes
Nina
Sky
David
John
Rasa
Billi
Khalid
Chris
Facing Montreal
Photo+Drawing by Brian Hartley
Melbourne (Fitzroy), Australia
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| The Beloved Cecil Street Studio. Melbourne's home of CI since 1997! |
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| Harvesting 2 ways |
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| #DarkUnderscore glyph. Please note: no-one used it this time around! |
Lucas Rosseto / Campinas Brasil
Hoje fizemos a primeira Global Underscore de Campinas!
Estou muito feliz e grato por todos que participaram, pelas danças, pela Nancy Smith, pela Marília Carneiro, que trouxeram este conhecimento para minha vida.
!!!
Estou muito feliz e grato por todos que participaram, pelas danças, pela Nancy Smith, pela Marília Carneiro, que trouxeram este conhecimento para minha vida.
!!!
Rodrigo, Campinas, Brazil
Sempre bom voltar ao Lab FEF, onde comecei as práticas de contato em 2014. Obrigado por mais uma dança!
Bibiana, Campinas, Brazil
A maravilha que é suportar e ser suportada por essa energia global e nela encontrar espaço para reconhecer caminhos de movimento e assim encarar desafios. Espaços, tempos e fluxos que me impulsionam. Obrigada Marília, grupo, globo, gravidade, por me ensinar a sobreviver à queda.
Rafael Barzagli Oliveira, Campinas-SP, Brazil
I hurt my skin today, in a good way. All pain is less than the joy of dance on a saturday afternoon, with people with a lot of guts to be vunerable.
The power i'm feeling now need to be true, and the sense of dance in this chaotic world is necessary, i guess.
I want more. Reunion like that cost a lot of efort, and i'm tired to be alone in my on misery.
Here we aren't alone.
The power i'm feeling now need to be true, and the sense of dance in this chaotic world is necessary, i guess.
I want more. Reunion like that cost a lot of efort, and i'm tired to be alone in my on misery.
Here we aren't alone.
Daniela Zaia, Campinas, SP, Brasil
Todas as energias estavam canalizadas nesse local.
Todos os corpos estava interconectados.
Conectados corporalmente, visualmente e espiritualmente.
Daniela Zaia
Campinas, SP
Brasil
Todos os corpos estava interconectados.
Conectados corporalmente, visualmente e espiritualmente.
Daniela Zaia
Campinas, SP
Brasil
[Ligia Rodrigues Spedaletti] [São Paulo] [Brasil]
The unknowing truth about ourselves...
comes a little closer when we open our bodys to whatever comes in our way.
[Ligia Spedaletti] [São Paulo] [Brasil]
comes a little closer when we open our bodys to whatever comes in our way.
[Ligia Spedaletti] [São Paulo] [Brasil]
Raquel Galvani, Campinas, Brazil
Today was my first experience with Underscore. My heart felt, and it is still felling very warm, revigorated. Happy to feel my body speak! And also glad to know that there's people all over the world conected with this same pulse! Thank you!
Dante Moretti - Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brasil
Hoje me senti como em minha infância, pois tive medo de buscar certas pessoas do grupo... fui uma criança muito tímida... após um pequeno esforço nossa dança foi tão espontânea e viva que senti como se estivesse usando meu corpo pela primeira vez... Experimentar a total liberdade de ser quem eu sou, respeitar todos os meus impulsos... Que bom estar vivo!!! Valeu Nancy!!! Today i fell myself like i was in my chieldwood, Because i fell fear to looking for the partners... i was a shamed child... after a litte spend of energy our dance was so beatiful and alive that i felt like i was using my body for the first time... enjoy freely my body and be who i am... Its so good be alive!!! Thanks Nancy!!!
singapore 'ssembly
I never cease to be amazed
by casual chemistry, by seemingly unplanned fluidity
A seamless exchange, a sharing. To be
mindlessly involved. Unthinking, yet 100% aware.
You banter with your body - limbs askew, akimbo
All in child-like wonder,
accidental brilliance.
-potato
by casual chemistry, by seemingly unplanned fluidity
A seamless exchange, a sharing. To be
mindlessly involved. Unthinking, yet 100% aware.
You banter with your body - limbs askew, akimbo
All in child-like wonder,
accidental brilliance.
-potato
Midnight in Singapore
Just past midnight in Singapore. Eve of Hari Raya/Eid. The aunties and uncles in the next door unit have finished the karaoke session. The music for this practice is now breath and laughter.
Bibiana, Campinas, Brazil
uma qualidade maleável
escutar o ponto
encontrar o desequilíbrio
fluxo de deixar-se ir
desejar mais e não fazer
encontro no outro
Bibiana
Gabriel, Campinas, Brazil
A time when i saw body's misteries dancing.
Gabriel Lorca, Campinas, Brazil
Gabriel Lorca, Campinas, Brazil
Hi Nancy, Mike and all of you !
So kindly connected to all of you during the little dance and the preambulation here, in PORTO ALEGRE, in the Parco da Rendenção! Que bom os sentir aqui, ao lado de me, com paz…
Walking, I let my legs been "decomposed" (as Delsarte said, that means decontracted, released) after each path - a way to be "inside space better than to go through the space" (as said my friend François Faucher at my last workshop - François, with whom I experiment also this king of connection : far away in space, but so close when a time and an intention are here).
Then, embracing a tree, I felt our connection by the ground, by our Mother Earth.
Love and dance with all of you !
FRANCK
So kindly connected to all of you during the little dance and the preambulation here, in PORTO ALEGRE, in the Parco da Rendenção! Que bom os sentir aqui, ao lado de me, com paz…
Walking, I let my legs been "decomposed" (as Delsarte said, that means decontracted, released) after each path - a way to be "inside space better than to go through the space" (as said my friend François Faucher at my last workshop - François, with whom I experiment also this king of connection : far away in space, but so close when a time and an intention are here).
Then, embracing a tree, I felt our connection by the ground, by our Mother Earth.
Love and dance with all of you !
FRANCK
Gregory Chevalier, Budapest, Hungary
I move with no effort.
Raquel, Spain
Frame and intention, creativity in movement, and charge, we make it work, pppfffff.
Ram, Israel.
I love to play, to dance, and to play and dance.
Gregory, Budapest, France
A big playground.
Marta, Budapest
The more i relax, the more i listen, the more i don't want to do, the more it works, the more i am in harmony witn the others.
Eszter, Budapest.
Very playfull, something takes form, and then dissipates, flowing.
Kata, Budapest
Contrast, engagement, listening, idiot button.
Attila, Budapest
Difficult to connect first, then brain less flow taken by the waves. Good way to get to know each other.
Zoé, Budapest
Jungle, playground.
Kata, Budapest
Physical efforts, but no mind effort, new feeling.
Réka, Budapest
I did know anyone, and i could ne whoever i was in the moment.
Eszter, Budapest.
Melbourne(Fitzroy), Australia
Charmaine
Radek
Jon
Amara
Jonathan
Michelle
Mike
Caroline
Audrey
Ashley
Dulce Trejo, Ciudad de México, México
In the moode for connecting
Starting soon!
Dulce Trejo, from EPIICO (Espacio de práctica e investigación en improvisación de contacto), Ciudad de México, México.
Hello everyone,
There is a typo and also another change to the FACINGS!
TYPO: #35 should be MALAGA, SPAIN (not a 2nd Barcelona)
OTHER CHANGE: Columbus, Ohio, USA has dropped out (due to lack of people coming)
And Ecuador has come in!
Small Dance FACINGS:
1st Small Dance: face East - the site below yours
Closing Small Dance: face West - the site above yours
There is a typo and also another change to the FACINGS!
TYPO: #35 should be MALAGA, SPAIN (not a 2nd Barcelona)
OTHER CHANGE: Columbus, Ohio, USA has dropped out (due to lack of people coming)
And Ecuador has come in!
Small Dance FACINGS:
1st Small Dance: face East - the site below yours
Closing Small Dance: face West - the site above yours
• Viljandi, Estonia
• Moscow, Russia
• Seattle, WA USA
• Montreal, Canada
• Glasgow, Scotland
• Stukely-Sud, QC Canada
• Hamburg, Germany
• Tokyo, Japan
• Toronto, Canada
• Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Leipzig, Germany
• Guangzhou, China
• Berkeley, CA USA
• Buffalo, NY USA
• Plainfield, MA USA
• Bedford, United Kingdom
• Bonn, Germany
• Shenzhen, China
• Evanston, IL USA
• Vienna, Austria
• Hong Kong
• New York City, NY USA
• Budapest, Hungary
• ECUADOR ** Columbus, OH, USA has dropped out.
• Gozd Martuljek, Slovenia
• Philadelphia, PA USA
• Barnave, France
• Santa Fe, NM USA
• Lauret, France
• Arezzo, Italy
• Tel-Aviv, Israel
• Monterrey, Mexico
• Barcelona, Spain
• Ciudad de México
• MALAGA, SPAIN
• Singapore
• Campinas, Brazil
• Cape Town, South Africa
• São Paulo, Brazil
• Fitzroy, Australia
• Santiago, Chile
• Florianopolis, Brazil
• Quequén, Argentina
• Montevideo, Uruguay
Viljandi, Estonia
Viljandi, Estonia TEST2
Hi Patrick and everyone.
We are doing a test in the space where we'll be dancing.
Triin is taking a photo now of the space and we can attach it.
Seems to be working!
love
Nancy and Triin
We are doing a test in the space where we'll be dancing.
Triin is taking a photo now of the space and we can attach it.
Seems to be working!
love
Nancy and Triin
GUS 2017 Facilitators Packet has arrived!
Hi everyone,
We are getting ready for our global connection through dancing! May we all be inspired and moved by this phenomenal practice. Personally, it doesn't matter about the people who are non-synchronous - this allows us to time travel together!
Nancy Hughes and I are right now hanging out on skype. We both need to go to bed!
Get the GUS 2017 Packet in 2 ways: PDF
or:
GUS Packet google doc (without GUS 2017 MAPS)+
GUS 2017 MAPS google doc
Facilitators have the Packet in your email as well! You will best be prepared by reading it throughly...
Sign up for Live Harvesting. You must accept the invitation that was sent. If you have another email address you want me to make an "Author" so you can post, let me know.
Check out all the GUS 2017 sites. Come dance on Saturday!
If you have any questions, please contact us.
ox Patrick, Nancy H., & Brandin (and Nancy SS - sending love from Estonia)
We are getting ready for our global connection through dancing! May we all be inspired and moved by this phenomenal practice. Personally, it doesn't matter about the people who are non-synchronous - this allows us to time travel together!
Nancy Hughes and I are right now hanging out on skype. We both need to go to bed!
Get the GUS 2017 Packet in 2 ways: PDF
or:
GUS Packet google doc (without GUS 2017 MAPS)
GUS 2017 MAPS google doc
Facilitators have the Packet in your email as well! You will best be prepared by reading it throughly...
Sign up for Live Harvesting. You must accept the invitation that was sent. If you have another email address you want me to make an "Author" so you can post, let me know.
Check out all the GUS 2017 sites. Come dance on Saturday!
If you have any questions, please contact us.
ox Patrick, Nancy H., & Brandin (and Nancy SS - sending love from Estonia)
Global Underscore 2017
underscorenyc@gmail.com
Brandin Steffensen, Nancy Hughes, GUS Organizers
Nancy Stark Smith, Patrick Crowley, GUS Advisers
Global Underscore 2017 is June 24!
GUS 2017 is coming June 24, 5-9pm Estonia time (UTC+3, GMT+3), 10am-2pm EDT New York time.
xoxo b
Click HERE to let us know that you will be hosting a GUS site!
xoxo b
Click HERE to let us know that you will be hosting a GUS site!
GUS Practice Schedule
Wherever you are, whatever time is your start time, below is the time schedule for our simultaneous practice.
hour:minute
00:00 Start Time
00:45 Preambulation
00:50 Opening 5 min global Small Dance, facing the next site to the east according to the map
03:55 closing global Small Dance, facing the next site to the west according to the map*
04:00 closing
(Note: you can start Preambulating or Small Dancing earlier than specified, as long as you're doing it at the appointed time.)
00:00 Start Time
00:45 Preambulation
00:50 Opening 5 min global Small Dance, facing the next site to the east according to the map
03:55 closing global Small Dance, facing the next site to the west according to the map*
04:00 closing
(Note: you can start Preambulating or Small Dancing earlier than specified, as long as you're doing it at the appointed time.)
screen shot jpg of the MAP last year: GUS 2016
(The image here is a jpg - don't mistake it for the map itself)
Above is a screenshot I took with Grab. If you have a Mac it has it for sure.
Open the map in a browser and size it to fit your screen ~
Take Screen Shots with your Mac's program Grab (do a spotlight search "Grab" to find it)
Hold down shift + command + A and then you can drag a square and capture a screen shot and save it to your desktop as a tiff. (If you open with the application Preview you can "save as" and make it a jpg if that's better for you too.)
Then you can print your tiff or jpg with a printer.
Use the Grab application. It is on your Mac for sure.
Best and love
xoxo Brandin
GUS 2016 FACING LIST
GUS 2016
FACING LIST
for
Small Dance Stand facings
WHAT
THIS IS:
The
Facing List makes a zigzagging line from east to west (or west to east) around
the planet. You'll face a site
either northeast or southeast of you for the first small dance stand, and a
site northwest or southwest of you for the second small dance stand.
INSTRUCTIONS:
For
the first Small Dance Stand, face the site below you in this list.
For
the second Small Dance Stand, face the site above you in this list.
The
number following the site is the degree of the longitude.
Seconds
and minutes are only included if they help clarify which site is next.
W
indicates west.
E
indicates east.
SKIP
NON-SYNCHRONOUS SITES because they are not dancing in time with the rest of the
sites.
NOTE:
The
longitude assignments are approximations.
The exact address of your site may have a slightly different longitude
than the one listed, but probably not (especially if we're only looking at the
degree which is the grossest aspect of the measurement).
Seattle USA 122 W
Salt Lake City USA 111 W
Monterrey MEXICO 100 W
Cuidad de Mexico MEXICO 99 W
Chicago USA 87 W
Columbus USA 82 59' W
Asheville USA 82 33' W
Toronto CANADA 79 W
Buffalo USA 78 W
Washington DC USA 77 W
Philadelphia USA 75 W
Brooklyn NYC USA 73 W
Plainfield USA 72 55' W
Stukely Sud CANADA 72 24' W
Cambridge USA 71 W
Santiago CHILE 70 40' W
Wellfleet USA 70 0' W
Cordoba ARGENTINA 64 W
Buenos Aires ARGENTINA 58 W
Marindia URUGUAY 55 W
Curitiba BRASIL 49 W
Florianopolis BRASIL 48 W
Brasilia BRASIL 47 W
Sao Paulo BRASIL 46 W
Lisbon PORTUGAL 9 W
Glasgow SCOTLAND 4 W
Madrid SPAIN 3 W
London UK 0
Barcelona SPAIN 2 9' E
Pontos SPAIN 2 55' E
Brussels BELGIUM 4 21' E
Lyon FRANCE 4 50' E
Die FRANCE 5 22' 20'' E
Barnave FRANCE 5 22' 28'' E
Groningen NETHERLANDS 6 E
Freiburg im Breisgau GERMANY 7 E
Milan ITALY 9 E
Muenchen (Munich) GERMANY 11 35' E
Halle Saale GERMANY 11 58' E
Berlin GERMANY 13 E
Cape Town SOUTH AFRICA 18 E
Warsaw POLAND 21 E
Istanbul TURKEY 28 E
Caesarea ISRAEL 34 E
Moscow RUSSIA 37 E
Kuang MALAYSIA 101 E
Shenzhen CHINA 114 E
Wong Tai Sin HONG KONG 114 E (Non-Synchronous SKIP)
Beijing CHINA 116 E (Non-Synchronous SKIP)
Shanghai CHINA 121 E
Adelaide AUSTRALIA 138 E (Non-Synchronous SKIP)
Newcastle AUSTRALIA 151 E (Non-Synchronous SKIP)
Aukland NEW ZEALAND 174 E (Non-Synchronous SKIP)
GUS Map 2016
Dear facilitators and Global Underscore 2016 dancers,
The GUS 2016 map includes 53 sites all around the world!
You can play with it. You can swipe, drag and zoom in and out and take screenshots to print to post on the wall for you Underscore. (the markers in the Atlantic Ocean just tell you what the marker's colors mean)
Look out for a facing list with instructions to help with the small dance stands.
You can use the map to make sense of which city/site you'll face. Remember the first Small Dance Stand faces the next site to the east (northeast or southeast) and the second Small Dance Stand closes by facing the next site to the west (northwest or southwest).
Happy Dancing! So happy your reading this and getting ready for Global Underscore.
Cheers
Brandin Steffensen
(with Nancy Hughes)
(from Underscore NYC)
The GUS 2016 map includes 53 sites all around the world!
https://www.click2map.com/v2/underscorenyc/Global_Underscore_2016
You can play with it. You can swipe, drag and zoom in and out and take screenshots to print to post on the wall for you Underscore. (the markers in the Atlantic Ocean just tell you what the marker's colors mean)
Look out for a facing list with instructions to help with the small dance stands.
You can use the map to make sense of which city/site you'll face. Remember the first Small Dance Stand faces the next site to the east (northeast or southeast) and the second Small Dance Stand closes by facing the next site to the west (northwest or southwest).
Happy Dancing! So happy your reading this and getting ready for Global Underscore.
Cheers
Brandin Steffensen
(with Nancy Hughes)
(from Underscore NYC)
UPDATES
Welcome to the Global Underscore gathering of 2016. We are thrilled that we are all coming together this year with such full and rich variety. Thank you for your presence and organization!
We will be sending you the final list of Global Underscore sites and the Facing List for the Opening and Closing Stands by Friday, June 17. But for now, here is some Technology* and Harvest information so you can prepare accordingly.
*To Participate in Live Streaming and Second Life for GUS 2016 Isabel Valverde will need your tech info by June 15. Keep reading to find out what to send her.
Dear Global Underscore Facilitators
We have some special technology components for our connections during the Global Underscore 2016. Isabel Valverde will be working with us to make it happen!
Isabel will be hosting a virtual Global Underscore satellite through Second Life, a multi-user virtual environment. Isabel will also help you post live streaming on the Global Underscore Blog.
We will also be posting Harvest on the blog.
Read through the list of opportunities below. You will have the option to either actively participate or to simply visit and observe any one of these technology components.
OPTIONS FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE TECHNOLOGY COMPONENTS of the
Global Underscore 2016 (from simplest level to most complex):
1) Share material from your regular Harvest circle:
Send your Harvest-text and/or a small selection of photos or a short video from your Global Underscore experience- to underscorenyc@gmail.com for the Global Underscore blogspot. Nancy Hughes and Brandin Steffensen will be adding your harvest directly on the blog.
2) Local real-time Harvest:
Have a computer somewhere in the space with a Word document open (or sheets of paper) for people to write (or draw) during the Underscore. This can be harvested afterward on the blog. (See #1.)
3) Live streaming video:This is live video streaming from any/every site that can manage it, collected for real-time viewing on http://globalunderscore.
For this option, your site will need:
1. Two laptops (one to send and one to receive)
2. A webcam (the camera in the computer that's used for skyping is enough, or you can
input from a separate camera. Webcams are simpler and recommended.)
3. High-speed internet access (not a dial-up modem)
4. Someone capable of setting it up and testing it prior to the date of the Global
Underscore
For detailed instructions click This Link
What will happen:
You will establish a free individual video broadcast channel (on the ustream platform: www.ustream.tv/about or bambuser.com) that will be gathered together with other Global Underscore video streams by Isabel.
***To simply view video streams without doing your own stream, visit: the Global Underscore Blogspot
4) Global Underscore 2016 on Second Life:
For Global Underscore 2016, Portuguese dancer/researcher Isabel Valverde will facilitate a Global Underscore satellite in Second Life, a multi-user 3D virtual environment. Senses Places project will be the virtual host for this Global Underscore site, Odyssey Contemporary and Performance Simulator at Second Life.
SL URL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Odyssey/31/147/681
For Global Underscore 2016, Portuguese dancer/researcher Isabel Valverde will facilitate a Global Underscore satellite in Second Life, a multi-user 3D virtual environment. Senses Places project will be the virtual host for this Global Underscore site, Odyssey Contemporary and Performance Simulator at Second Life.
SL URL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Odyssey/31/147/681
At this special location on Second Life, avatar Underscore participants and audience will join the Underscore practice from different remote places around the world. Also at this location, the Ustream and/or bambuser video channels from Global Underscores worldwide will be screened for viewing and possible interaction.
There will be a Ustream channel streaming the Second Life Global Underscore site at Odyssey Contemporary and Performance Simulator at Second Life. That stream will be embedded on Odyssey Contemporary Art and Performance Simulator SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Odyssey/31/147/681
There will be a Ustream channel streaming the Second Life Global Underscore site at Odyssey Contemporary and Performance Simulator at Second Life. That stream will be embedded on Odyssey Contemporary Art and Performance Simulator SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Odyssey/31/147/681
For detailed instructions on joining the Global Underscore satellite in Second Life click This Link
YOUR JOB NOW:
1) Choose which of the 4 (it could be any or all) of the above technology components you want to use with your site.
with anticipation, Global Underscore 2016 Coordinators (UnderscoreNYC: Brandin Steffensen and Nancy Hughes ) along with Nancy Stark Smith, Patrick Crowley, and Isabel Valverde
Link to Additional Resource
Global Underscore 2012, Chichester, UK site (photographer unknown)
Technology Spotlight
Steps to set up your video stream
3.1. Create a channel for video streaming with USTREAM, or Bambuser.
Go to these links for instructions.
http://www.ustream.tv/abouthttp://www.ustream.tv/get-started
http://helpcenter.ustream.tv/category/category/broadcasting-getting-started
http://helpcenter.ustream.tv/category/category/broadcasting-getting-started
3.3. Test if you can broadcast.
Test the recording function:
Start broadcasting and go to the channel's link to check if you can see it, or click on the title of your channel at the top left corner of the broadcast window. This opens a new window where your live broadcast will show up.
Suggestion: If you want to record (and you are comfortable starting and ending the recording function without too much distraction) try recording at any of these three times:
a. opening small dance (00:50; 50 minutes into the 4 hour Underscore)
b. 30 minutes during Open Score (2:15-2:45)
c. closing small dance (3:55)
3.4. Send the URL of your channel to cilxjam@gmail.com in order to be gathered at the Global Underscore blog page.If you have any tech questions, email isabel at cilxjam@gmail.com
Steps to set up Second Life
In order to visit and participate in the Global Underscore Satellite @ Second Life someone at your GU site needs to:
4.1. Have a computer with good graphics and internet connection. Note that Mac stopped supporting video on SL.
4.2. Create an account and choose an avatar (free) @ http://secondlife.com/
4.3. Download and install Second Life (free) @ http://secondlife.com/ Please check the technical requirements.
4.4. Open the Second Life application and Go to the SL Underscore Satellite site at Senses Places space: SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Odyssey/31/147/681
(You can also go to any other location at your choice, or simply login without choosing a place. You will be teleported to a welcome site where ava
tar hosts wait to help you ☺)
4.5. Get accustomed to the interface: the avatar and the 3d environment. It is not difficult, but it will require more or less practice, depending on your computer interface and videogame skills and literacy.
Examples: a) learn to use the arrow keys to move the avatar in space, b) learn to use the chat window, voice, or animations to communicate, c) learn about the menus and Inventory, d) learn how to edit the avatar appearance, e) camera operation, f) learn to intera
ct with objects in the environment, g) learn how to teleport, etc. See a video demonstration.
In principle, this will enable you to observe, interact, and improvise at the site with other avatars and video stream images of other GU sites projected on to screens/browser windows.
4.6. At the VGU site we will share animations for your avatar to improvise with. You can play with then, including changing, accumulating, looping, and move your avatar in space while animated. The ideal is that you can put it to dance so you can dance also with the moving entities. Additionally, we share a webcam interface (from Senses Places) that allows your movement to interact with the ava
tar. This interface instructions and the animations are available in one object at the virtual site :D
4.7. If you are at one GU site streaming a channel, you will be able to see it there along with other streams. You will only have to copy paste your site's channel URL link onto one of the screens available at the site as server windows.
4.8. Watch, experiment, improvise!
Link to Additional Resource
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