Welcome to the Global Underscore gathering of 2012. We are thrilled that we are all coming together this year with such full and rich variety. Thank you for your presence and organization!
In order to complete our organization for our global practice, we need a little more detail from our facilitators. We would like to gather more detail about your location, participants and level of participation. Please fill out the attached form THIS WEEK (by June 16) so we can share your information with all of the other sites.
Click here to fill out the form after reading about the various technology components below.
This year we have some special technology components for our connections during the Global Underscore 2012 thanks to the Somatics & Technology conference, Marlon Barrios Solanos and Isabel Valverde.
Marlon’s website www.dance-tech.net will be hosting a live global blog for real time harvests during the Global Underscore as well as live streaming videos from Underscore sites around the world. Meanwhile, Isabel will be hosting a virtual Global Underscore satellite through Second Life, a multi-user virtual environment.
You will have the option to either actively participate or to simply visit and observe any one of these technology components. See details below for instructions on each level of participation.
Remember, you can keep this simple for yourself! Our suggestion is that you read through these options for the tech components just to get a sense of what’s going on. But please feel free to only participate in whatever level feels interesting and doable for you and your site. Enjoy!
OPTIONS FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE TECHNOLOGY COMPONENTS of the
Global Underscore 2012 (from simplest level to most complex):
1) Share material from your regular Harvest circle:
Post your Harvest—text and/or a small selection of photos or a short video from your Global Underscore experience—on the Global Underscore blogspot. Jesse Johnson will be adding every facilitator as an editor so that you can post directly on the blog. Or, if you prefer, you can send your Harvest to Jesse and the Global Underscore 2012 NYC coordinators after the Underscore at underscorenyc@gmail.com so they can post it for you.
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) Global real-time Harvest blog on dance-tech.net:
This is a live collective blog for any individual at any site to enter brief texts or images from their global practice as it happens.
For this option: 1. Your site will need a computer and high-speed internet access. 2. Your site (or an individual at your site) will need to join “dance-tech.net” to participate in the Global Underscore blog. It is free (ignore the “donate” prompt, you can enter $0.0; or donate to this good cause!). 3. After joining dance-tech.net, you must join the Global Underscore 2012 “Group.” www.dance-tech.net/group/global-underscore-2012. This will be the gathering place for our digital Global Underscore inter-activities (live blog, video stream links, etc.) 4. Suggestion: Be sure to do this well in advance! If you have any difficulties, contact Marlon Barrios Solanos directly at marlon@dance-tech.net.
This is live video streaming from any/every site that can manage it, collected for real- time viewing on dance-tech.net.
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
What will happen: You will establish a free individual video broadcast channel (on the ustream platform: www.ustream.tv/about) that will be gathered together with other Global Underscore video streams by Marlon.
For Global Underscore 2012, 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, located at Koru Island in Second Life. (Koru Island is provided by Wellington Institute of Technology.) http://slurl.com/secondlife/Koru/219/226/4027
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 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 Koru Island. That stream will be embedded on the Global Underscore 2012 Group page on dance-tech.net along with all the other site videos.
1) Choose which of the 5 (it could be any or all) of the above technology components you want to use with your site. 2) Fill out the form by JUNE 16 (one week from today).
With enthusiasm,
Global Underscore 2012 Coordinators (UnderscoreNYC: Jesse Johnson, Rebecca Bone, Brandin Steffenson) along with Nancy Stark Smith, Marlon Barrios Solanos, and Isabel Valverde
Welcome to the Global Underscore 2012! This year’s Global Underscore will take place on Saturday June 23, from 9:30 am-1:30 pm EDT (New York time zone). Underscore NYC is honored to be organizing this event again this year and happily writing to you now to begin our collaboration together.
For the past 11 years, a Global Underscore has been occurring near the summer solstice. Conceived and organized by French dancer Claire Filmon for 10 years, the Global Underscore Solstice is an annual event during which dancers at many sites around the world practice the Underscore simultaneously.
We enthusiastically invite you to join us physically and energetically, in time and in space. With Nancy’s direction and your participation, we will surely create an amazing event together!
Nancy and Mike will be in London at a Somatics and Technology Conference in Chichester, UK, and will be hosting an Underscore there on June 23, from 2:30 – 6:30 pm (UK Time). Underscore NYC will be hosting their monthly Underscore practice at the same time in NYC from 9:30 am – 1:30 pm EDT.
TIMES ACROSS THE GLOBE
Here is a list of times for this year’s practice in other possible locations (all times begin on the 23rd) :
9:30 am – 1:30 pm East Coast, USA including New York, Boston, DC
10:30 am – 2:30 pm Buenos Aires (Argentina)
2:30 pm – 6:30 pm London
3:30 pm – 7:30 pm Europe including Paris, Berlin
4:30 pm – 8:30 pm Israel/Palestine
5:30 pm – 9:30pm Moscow
10:30 pm – 2:30 am Japan
11:30 pm – 3:30 am Melbourne/Sydney (Australia)
6:30 am – 10:30 am West Coast, USA
7:30 am – 11:30 am Boulder, CO
8:30 am – 12:30 pm Chicago, IL.
(Check out www.timeanddate.com for more information if your time zone is not listed)
OPTIONS FOR PARTICIPATION
The Global Underscore is organized for people who know Contact Improvisation and the Underscore. However, in an effort to include others who are not as familiar with the Underscore, or cannot organize people to join them, there are three possible levels of participation one can choose in joining this practice.
Please read the descriptions below to determine which of the three forms of participation best suits your community:
A. Full Score Practice You are a community of dancers in which every dancer present is a part of a serious exploration of the ideas/perceptions/principles operating in Nancy’s Underscore and Contact Improvisation. This probably means that several of you have studied and/or practiced the Underscore with Nancy directly or with someone else who has. Since the event, for you, is about practicing the Underscore, even 1 or 2 dancers who are not familiar with this score will change the experience of the practice. Please feel free to set limits based on experience, to offer talk-throughs (see below), and to contact us with any questions.
B. Modified Score Jam You are a community of dancers who have various levels of experience with Contact Improvisation and the Underscore. You may have one person who has studied with Nancy or has done an Underscore, but in general your experience as a group is in jamming and exploring CI and improvisation. You might feel more resonance with a more open participation. For example, you might open and close with the Small Dance in connection with the other Underscore sites; and in the dancing section, you warm-up individually, circulate a bit, find a first partner for a contact improvisation dance, and then move into an Open Jam format. You might even end together at the global “Final Resolution” time, take some time for personal reflection, rest, or warm-down, and then have a circle of sharing at the end. This closing circle might not necessarily be a Harvest in terms of the perceptions of Nancy’s score, but would be a rich way of sharing your experience.
C. Satellite You want to participate but are unable to for any reason: you are alone, you have an obligation, etc. You might join us for the opening and/or closing Small Dance (both would be great!) to sort of “click-in” to sense the dancing, and to give your support. You know enough about the small dance to be able to explore it deeply for that brief shared time.
In keeping with the oral tradition of the Underscore, we encourage facilitators to offer "talk-throughs" before the Global Underscore to introduce newcomers (and refresh familiars) with the language, glyphs, and structures of the Underscore. We ask that all participants of the Global Underscore 2012 be familiar with the practice ahead of time.
PRACTICE SCHEDULE
Wherever you are, whatever time is your start time, below find the time schedule for our simultaneous practice.
00:00 start time
00:45 preambulation
00:50 opening 5 min global small dance, facing east according to the map
03:55 closing global small dance, facing 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.)
DEADLINES
All sites will be mapped and linked before June 23rd so that everyone knows which direction to face during the small dances, and so that participants can see our collective web of participants. We will need to hear from people by June 15 for their site to be included in the linked map.
Keep up to date on the details of our organizing by reading the blog we created last year:
Technology Note: In honor of the Global Underscore occurring in the context of the Somatics and Technology conference in Chichester, UK, this year there will be a special opportunity to link to each other technologically. Nancy will be speaking with the tech director in Chichester soon for their suggestions and we’ll post it on the blog. If you have ideas and capabilities for other technological linkage between sites, please contact us as soon as possible with as much detail as you can. We will do our best to help everyone connect who wants to. A new experience!
HOW TO CONNECT
If you would like to facilitate a Global Underscore practice in your city, please click on
Planning has begun for this year's Global Underscore practice...here's an update!
Nancy Stark Smith and Mike Vargas will be hosting/facilitating one site of the 2012 Global Underscore as part of the Somatics and Technology Conference taking place at the University of Chichester, in Chichester, UK, on Saturday, June 23, 2:30–6:30 pm (UK time) and we are basing the timing of the rest of our global practices around this. Underscore NYC will be practicing at Eden's Expressway simultaneously from 9:30am-1:30pm EST. Mark your calendars, start reserving space, and let us know you're thinking about it by emailing Jesse in NYC at underscorenyc@gmail.com.
Here is a sweet description:
The Underscore is a framework for practicing and researching dance improvisation that Nancy has been developing since 1990 based on her work with Contact Improvisation. It is a long jamming/CI/improvisation score that guides dancers through a series of "changing states"—from solo relaxation and sensitizing to gravity and support, through group circulation and interaction, to contact improvisation engagements, then opening out to full group improvisation, and back to rest and reflection.
For the past 11 years, a Global Underscore has been occurring near the summer solstice. Conceived and organized by French dancer Claire Filmon for 10 years, the Global Underscore Solstice is an annual event during which dancers at many sites around the world practice the Underscore simultaneously.
We hope you’ll join Nancy, Mike and the other Underscores happening around the globe on June 23! Special thanks to Brandin Steffensen for Global Underscore 2012's image above. Beautiful!
Here are some notes from the Global Underscore in Buffalo, NY:
window reoccurring window
almost everyone spent time looking out the window
I was under the impression that through most of the underscore everyone was in a different part of the underscore
ether
chairs
laughter
sound effects
broom
instruments
use of space !?
I noticed how space is used differently in the underscore vs. the usual jams held in the same studio
John at column
later Aaron at column
Kelly with drum on her face
lots of solos
what was said:
"went fast"
"lost"
"you almost cracked my shell open"
"liked idiot button option"
"awareness in body felt new"
"waiting for an engagement to happen"
"meditation journey"
As the last event of a weeklong Dance Improvisation Fest produced by Columbia College Dance Center and Links Hall (organized by dancer/improviser Lisa Gonzales and others), Nancy and Mike hosted the Global Underscore 2011 in Chicago.
The talk-thru (Saturday) and Underscore (Sunday) took place in Columbia’s pleasant, spacious, “black box” theater—a wide, Marley-covered floor space with about 10 rows of comfortable raked seating rising from the floor level. Our dance encompassed the full room. Mike had a grand piano on the stage/floor area along with other instruments and electronics. 35 dancers gathered from Chicago and further afield to practice together. We were excited to be joining everyone in this worldwide mostly-simultaneously practice of the Underscore.
We had a computer set up on a standing podium near the Underscore pages and maps, where people could—during the dancing portions of the Underscore—stop by and jot down a “real-time harvest” image or thought. Then, after the Final Resolution, we shared harvest while Clare Tallon and Hope Goldman scribed furiously into the laptop. Both harvests, and the list of names, are below.
Thank you, Claire Filmon, for creating this Global Solstice Underscore, and thank you Jesse and Dey for making it happen so lightly and joyfully this year.
And thanks to everyone for jumping into the score on such short notice. Amazing!
Love to you all,
Nancy
PARTICIPANTS
Nancy Stark Smith (Florence, MA), Mike Vargas (Florence, MA), Laura Swedenborg (Ashtabula, OH), Hope Goldman (Chicago), Chantelle Hougland (Urbana, IL), Alysha Perrin (High Point, NC), Nicole Alexis Klein (Die, Drôme, France), Noam Frankel (Chicago), Laura Sova (Chicago), Carly Czach (Chicago), Keland Scher (Chicago), Mars Miquelon (Mazomanie, WI), Debbie Safeblack [sp?] (Chicago), Rachel Brezis (Chicago), Allison Smith (Chicago), Heather Good (Madison, WI), Michael Carrico (Chicago), Keisha Turner (NYC & Illinois), Kori Martodam (Chicago), Tihana Jovanic (Ashburn, VA), Rossi Dimikonova (Chicago), Travis Robb (Chicago), Kate Fiello (Chicago), Chad Cole (Mount Prospect, IL), Holly Jaycox (Battle Ground, IN), Rek Kwawer (Madison, WI), Ray Chung (San Francisco, CA), Andrew Brightman (Battle Ground, IN), Rob Welcher (Chicago), Jason Seymour (David Lakein) (Berlin), Jija Sohn (Williamsport, IN; Amsterdam, NL), Ingrid Skoog (Bloomington, IN), Clare Tallon Ruen (Evanston, IL), Lindsay Reich (Wilmette, IL), Daniel Halkin (Chicago, IL)
Real-time Harvest
12:43 we transition from pow-wow to bathroom, stretching, early preambulating. We are 35 in the room. And off we go.
Joy feat play ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Sacred v ordinary. Poetic v mundane. Holding space for both at all times.
Stretching v dancing. Dancing v dancing w Mike music: making every move seem important, intended, poetic, fluffy, deep
What does it mean in this context to cause a R
Some people did small dance for 10 minutes or more.
Home
One eager. One tearful. Manybeingwheretheyare.
As we stood facing Buffalo, at first, I imagined a string running through each of our cores and gradually twisting into one rope just outside this room; that rope ran to Buffalo, where it unwound and each string connected to a person there then twisted into the rope again past their room. That rope twisted and untwisted its way around the world and back through us. Eventually, I imagined that it was pure energy and light that connected all of us.
When facing east with the rest of my comrades in this circle I felt very warm. My temperature and energy rose.
The power of stillness to unite holds such beauty.
What is it about that which is unfamiliar to us, which often sends us—whether near or far—a distance away…?
Per me a b l e
Hey ho n away we go
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How could I think that I can’t live without this
WHAT’S ALL THE DEDICATION TO HARMONY AND SIDESTEPPING OF DISHARMONY?
I bowed at 3:00 because it felt like a beautiful moment.
Silence fills the room, the clearest sound: Patience.
Random is beautiful. Almost falling makes me happy.
There is so much beauty in fear aosnocasbp9ah9ah\jshqvpweh
It is generous to fall….
Raw
Every person has the ability to connect with another. ‘Connecting’ is exclusive to no one. You just have to be open to it.
The silence of the harvest
After the hefty grazing,
They rest like monkeys in the sun,
With no predators in sight
Dancing in red lipstick for the first time, for some flair under the white-cold LED’s of the Columbia stage studio. Wondering half a dozen times: “Is it all over my face?” Thankful for the serendipitous wearing of black sleeves.
Post-dancing HARVEST/SHARING:
(Holding Mike’s big baby toy “instrument” as a talking stone.)
Keland: so many moments of beauty that I thought I was done crying and I started again. I felt so grateful and appreciative to be home after a break. How did I think I could do that [take a break]
Ray: Can’t think of a better way to spend my first visit to Chicago.
Kori: it was so great to be able to dance so un-self consciously, it usually takes me a week of festival
Chad: my first week of CI and I finally found something I’ve been searching for my whole life
Nancy: I really loved those sparse piano chords Mike played in the beginning—one chord and then let a lot of time passed and then another one. Linked in an irregular and deeply satisfying way. I also observed for awhile, 3/4 of the way through, and I felt very engaged: I was watching a city, an environment of engaged, erratic, irregular, yet porous individuals and events. I felt interested and fully engaged.
Mike: it was about 3 o clock when I looked up, and I had to bow cause it was beautiful. I guess we kind of live for those moments. I guess everyone’s more or less ok, doing what they want to be doing; seems like a pretty good deal
Rosie: I’m very grateful what you taught us yesterday, the container, I felt that today, to connect to people so seamlessly, to allow the moment to happen by itself. It was graceful. At one point I thought I was dancing with someone…but ended up I was dancing with someone else.
Mars: I want to say…the permeability of sacred and mundane. I had to plug the parking meter, but I also organize workshops and Nancy I just wanted to thank you because when you came to Mazo three years ago you mentioned this. And I struggle much less now than I did then about the permeability of the sacred and mundane; that practice has really helped me.
Laura: I didn’t know anybody when I got here…now I feel I do
Rob: I was with several of you at Martin’s workshop. 5 kinds of contact dancers: wind in your face, and river of sensation. How do I choose those dances based on choosing certain partners, interesting
Michael: so many different people, so many different dances, you expect stability and get softness and vice versa, you expect softness and you get this strength. Some of the smallest things can take up a whole dance, fingertips
Keisha: I was filled with gratitude for this practice, especially when we faced Buffalo, I had an energetic circle around the globe. Also a lot of gratitude, I didn’t know anybody before this day and I suddenly had someone’s legs around my neck…
Lindsey: this is wonderful. I had a rough long morning before I came and you all are wonderful
Rachel: Moment in the skinesphere noticing the reflections of the people on the [Marley] floor … that was very powerful when connecting to the ground. I thought the facing was also powerful, I was thinking of facing Jerusalem, [the way we do as Jews sometimes when we pray] it was powerful to think someone was facing my way
Andrew: I enjoyed Telescoping Awareness, catching someone’s eyes across the room
David/Jason: armpits, mystery woman, never too much water, one with the curtain.
Daniel: very satisfying to have the time to go through many different states and see other people go through many states, dances evolve. Things that built up, people standing and watching, and that became a thing
Heather: walking into the room and I had a strong sense of nostalgia and I had to work through that for the first part, just to be here with the loveliness of now. I had my list of people I had to dance with, I had to let go of that craving, this is it! My 4 hours AAAAhh it was better than nostalgia—it was real!
Holly: I was really aware of this group of people with whom I’ve have varying levels of experience—some I’ve danced with and known for years, others very little—it created another texture, dancing also with people I didn’t know—in Boulder and Buffalo.
Alison: at one point I was spinning next to the curtain, it was cool, physics is surprising, and lots of people were walking and then they weren’t, they were all quiet
Noah: my first experience with scheduled/organized contact, it was very challenging physically and emotionally to stay engaged in magical or mundane. The talk yesterday helped be prepared for anything. This was Really fun.
Laura: I thought this would be a class but it became [a different kind of learning] and YAY, I did a supported handstand flip!
Ingrid: I loved the musical accompaniment. I loved it. My car was taken this morning and then returned. I came into the Underscore with a big knot in my chest. The first dance untied my knot
Matthew: I came in feeling the Gap big time and some experiences gave me a reframe for that—sometimes bringing me out of the gap and sometimes following me down the rabbit hole
Clare: I felt like a star in a movie with everyone—largely the music felt really cool…a summer block buster –
Hope: I was able to let go of a lot of fear, largely that when I dance with someone I can really just be myself, not expect anything of myself. I was paralyzed to take your class at Bates, so it feels really freeing to have this catharsis, to feel liberated.
Kate: I was worried, can I keep up? Nancy said “don’t worry!” and it almost immediately dissolved, it was lovely
Alysha: having a conversation with an untrained dancer about connection, they wished they could have that connection with people that dancers have. during the jam I was trying to figure that out—I don’t know your background but I didn’t feel that I couldn’t have connections with certain people or not. Realizing that anyone can connect with anyone with a willingness, hopefully I can convince my friend.
Carly: really beautiful things being said. I usually enter a jam setting with a thousand butterflies, having lots of ambitions, that I have to perform a certain way to grow… I’m not sure if it’s fatigue or growth from this week but I didn’t enter the space that way but I entered completely present today
Nicole: I just wanted to point to a moment when three quarters of the way inside of it something was really together in the whole room, we were all in some energy that was vibrant and beautiful, very powerful feeling to come together and be ready to accept and live through that. I love this space where we can just be and it’s as if the dance continues outside of this room
Debby: just joyful blessed play being immersed in an ocean…something bigger than myself and it was effortless to be a part of that
Jija: I felt dizzy; I’m getting into gardening and nature a lot and came to Chicago yesterday and couldn’t digest it all, fear of the space and dance floor, so it felt really weird. It reminds me when I started to contact, it was dizzy but really good stuff. Message of life
Rek: during the small dance I felt really strongly pressed between the two walls of Buffalo and Boulder…changed my small dance bc of the two directions of energy coming towards me. I think I take more risks during an underscore, something about having this container that I’m not aware of them being risks but it feels a lot bolder
Tihana: I noticed the timing of the score was helpful in having a completely different experience of the jam than normal. Usually so conscious of decisions that it shuts down some other things, the underscore was taking care of everything. Felt kind of like in a different state than usual, loved the gaps when they happened, different experience with them than usual, experience them differently
Travis: felt and appreciated the global connection and dance community
Chantelle: so many wonderful friends, not enough time to dance with everyone, still feel new to contact. But what struck me was the sense of belonging with the community, once you really feel like you belong you can really be yourself that really frees you to be yourself in other communities. I found it I’m here I’m more than I was before and now I can take that elsewhere and I’m grateful.
Nancy: a last thought. We’ve been into James Carce’s book: Finite and Infinite Games relative to what we do and thinking of it as an infinite game…where the point is to keep playing and to want to keep playing, finding when it works and when it doesn’t. there’s a way in which you have to bring yourself to the dance, there’s effort and payoff. Thank you for making the effort to come and dance and lose and find; it’s a pleasure to be able to do that with you all. Let’s get up and circulate and reverse the flow [by facing Boulder].
From Brandin Steffenson to Nancy in an email next day:
We had an amazing Global Underscore in Williamsburg [Brooklyn, NY]. Enthusiastically attended and the dancing was rich and playful and all accompanied by the traffic from the expressway running parallel to the diagonal wall outside the window (skinesphere to the sounds of combustion engines buzzing by at 60 miles per hour somehow underscores the notion that City Life Wellness is a haven of beauty in our industrial world).
Postscript:
Interesting practical harvest points came up in discussion the following week with Jesse, Nancy, Dey, and Brandin. Aspects of the structure that could be tweaked. Questions about stretching the form in certain ways (or not). Perhaps we’ll post them later on. If anyone has questions, conundrums, suggestions, issues about the Global Underscore practice that you’d like to share, please do! [NSS]
Super short recap.
We started our summer solstice lab which is an extended 4 hour event. Part way through we all stopped and did a small dance facing the Chicago crew.
The small dance broke up and the global underscore continued.
At the end of our 4 hours we had the pleasure of gliding on moving couches that ended in a small circle for harvest.
Good time.
Told you it was a short recap ;)
Love to all from Boulder, CO - always open to visitors from around the world.
Below you will find the Harvest from the UnderScore held in Parc Lafontaine, Montreal, Qc, Canada, on a gorgeous sunny day.
François : J’ai passé un beau moment. Merci. C’était lent pour moi, tout simple. Être ensemble, avec nous, être ici, c’est ce qui me nourrit. Être comme on est, avec nos limites.
Guillaume : Je suis ému. J’ai un genou blessé et j’ai participé sans danser, simplement en étant là. Je suis content de m’être senti relié, de créer des liens.
Christelle : J’ai aimé danser dehors et avoir des fourmis dans les yeux. J’ai trouvé ça plate que la moitié de la gang soit à Chertsey, mais bon… j’ai passé un bon moment, merci.
Nelson : Je trouve ça très cool de regarder nos pieds en ce moments (note de la preneuse de note : nos pieds sont verts et bruns d’avoir dansé dans le gazon).
Daniel : Quand j’ai vu le petit groupe, je me suis dit on va faire avec ce qu’on a. Mais au fond, faire du contact c’est entrer en relation. Quand il y a de l’écoute, ça marche, quand ce n’est pas là, on s’ennuie et on veut passer à autre chose. J’ai dansé avec plusieurs personnes aujourd’hui, j’ai fait des découvertes, ça m’a permis de sortir de mon espace de sécurité.
Camille : Découverte de la liberté. Pas de cadre, ce qui m’a permis de passer de gracieuse à ridicule. Je célèbre la liberté aujourd’hui.
Christian : C’est mon premier jam, super belle découverte.
Maty : J’ai trouvé difficile de faire l’UnderScore et de tenir le temps en même temps. J’étais pressée de passer d’une étape à l’autre. J’ai particulièrement apprécié la petite danse, observer mon bassin.
Bruno : Je suis content d’être ici. Ça faisait 2-3 ans que je n’avais as fait de contact-impro. Merci Mère Nature pour le temps parfait. J’ai beaucoup apprécié, c’est ce dont j’avais besoin aujourd’hui.
Catherine : C’était ma première fois en plein air, j’ai été déboussolée jusqu’à ce qu’on arrive dans l’engagement et l’échange de poids. C’est agréable de sentir l’herbe sous le pied.
Isabelle : Je ne savais pas qu’il y avait l’UnderScore, alors je suis allée danser au studio 303, puis je suis venue vous rejoindre après. Très agréable. J’espère apporter un peu d’énergie de la danse pour apporter de la vitalité dans ma prochaine activité.
Stéphanie : J’ai eu de la difficulté à embarquer dans l’UnderScore, pour toutes sortes de raisons… la nouveauté de faciliter (ce que j’ai beaucoup aimé et aimerait recommencer si besoin) le fait que la grande partie de la gang est ailleurs, être dehors. Aussi, j’ai fortement expérimenté la connexion de répulsion, ce que j’ai trouvé difficile. La répulsion est vraiment une connexion.
Serge : Mon moment fort a été de l’UnderScore a été dans le croisement des kinésphères, je me suis retrouvé à 4 pattes, moment de connexion très fort à l’enfance.
