Underscore-Being

Underscore-being is so different from regular life-being. Once someone has given me enough compression, my entire nervous system switches modes and begins to make choices on it own. In regular life, my brain is constantly telling stories and then generating feelings and choices come from a need to control, understand or figure out. underscore-being is FAR MORE RELAXING because I let go of trying to protect myself and simply ride the waves of pleasurable sensations and desires...which I'm happy to say get satisfied again and agin. I'm so sad that regular life-being is so stressful and desperate. Where has society gone wrong? If we could get up each day and do the Underscore with our neighbors, family, store owners, police people, children, construction workers, computer programmers, etc - what would reality be now? Couldn't we just solve problems by lying on someone and following the point of contact. "Shut up," I'd say to some complicated conflict. "Let's just dance."

Rythea Lee, Florence, MA USA

COSECHA DESDE BUENOS AIRES

Ciudad de Buenos Aires

Una mañana fría de invierno; la ciudad vacía y lluviosa.

No sabíamos cuantos íbamos a estar allí ese domingo.

Cómo las hormigas cuando llueve nos empezamos a movilizar.

Ciento cuarenta y tres personas llegamos al encuentro para participar del Underscore Global.

Escucha, presencia. Vitalidad, fluidez, energía. Alegría, risas, hermandad. Reencuentro, celebración.

Gratitud hacia todos los del mundo que se suman a compartir la danza!!!

Cristina Turdo, Laura Barceló y Andrea Fernández

Fotos:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/123866575@N04/sets/72157645434049556/

Participantes:

Adan Camacho

Adrián Gleizer

Adrián Matei

Adriana  Laborda

Aila Ramos

Alejandro Escaño

Alejandro Lariguet

Ana Isnardi

Ana Quiroz

Ana Trejo

Analía Steinberg

Andrea Fernández

Andrea Ichitel

Andrea Laino

Andrés Molina

Andrés Tanquía

Antonella Fantozzi

Bárbara Escot

Bárbara Leonhardt

Bárbara Trejo

Bernie Carballo

Camila Campos

Camila Dolberg

Carlos Barabaschi

Caro Moffat

Claudio Rodriguez

Cristina Bramuglia

Cristina Turdo

Daniel Liberman

Daniela Peez Klein

Daniela Serran

Dardo Erlijman

Denise Morelli

Diego Santos

Eduardo Chavarría

Eliana Bonard

Elías Nanarí

Elizabet Canova

Eric Bier

Ezequiel Lorenzo

Federico Lotitto

Federico Pérez

Fernado Serrano

Flor Grin

Florencia Martinez

Gabriel Greca

Gabriel Lugo

Gabriel Nardachione

Gabriel Palacios

Gabriela Antonelli

Gabriela De León

Gabriela Luque

Gala Coconier

Galahás

Genoveva Zuloaga

Gloria García

Gonzalo Barales

Griselda Angles

Guadalupe Orfila

Gustavo Lecce

Gustavo Lista

Helena Wroblewski

Javier Antoniuk

Javier Fernández

Jazmín Mlynarzewicz

Jorgelina Villamayor

Josefina Bustillo

Juliana Ponrugna

Julie Cristal

Julieta Castro

Justina Almonacid

Karin Flores

Karina Durán

Karina Maldonado

Laila Sanz

Laura Bagnato

Laura Barceló

Laura Friedman

Laura George

Leandro Valatini

Lehum Sbarra

Leonel Orellano

Liza Taylor

Lorena Avedano

Lorena Browernik

Lucas Mariño

Lucía Bertone

Lucía Frágola

Lucía Otaño

Luciano Lescano

Luz Werner

Marcela Misina

Marcos Di Cesaro

Margarita Faure

María Paz Sobrado

Mariana Montepagano

Mariana Roveda

Mariela Singer

Marina Sananes

Marisa Fernández

Martín  Pereyra

Martín Goivich

Martín Kesselman

Martina Juarez

Martina Koghan

Mata Guevara

Matías Barutta

Mavi Rivera

Melina Boyadjian

Milagos Galli

Monica Cardia

Mora

Nahuel Tomasella

Natalia Guillis

Natalia Manrique

Nico Peseo

Nicolás Varón

Nicole Torres

Pascal Melnick

Paula ..

Paula Alfieri

Paula Baratta

Paula Erbesfeld

Petit Campaña Alva

Popi Cabrera

Romina Caballero

Rose Schramm

Samantha Leder

Sebasti{an Alvarez

Sebastián Blanco

Sebastián Reinoso

Silvina Pintos

Sofi Morel

Sol Cavagnari

Susana Gentilcore

Therese Tschenk

Vero Choperena

Victoria Orellana

Violeta Lubarsky

Viviana Tobi

Walter De Rocchi

Yamile Galione

Yamile Salomé

Images from the underscore in Alcoi, Spain

Was incredible! facing Paris and London! XD In this church, (notice the old women in the corner).

Full of love!!

Pau

Sorry for those who don't read Spanish. We don`t have volunteers to translate this year.

De nuevo repetimos este año  el  poder disfrutar de los paisajes de las Alpujarras para el solsticio de verano.

El Domingo tempranito lo preparamos todo para subir hasta Baile en el aire, el día amaneció fresquito y nublado, cuando ya estábamos en los pueblitos de la alpujarra empezó a llover, pero nosotras continuamos con el propósito, había que empezar la jam a las 16h.

Cuándo llegamos a Baile en el aire, las maravillosas Ina e Isa estaban un poquito preocupadas por la lluvia, ya que el tablao esta al aire libre con un gran paracaídas de techo.

Así comenzamos a preparar el espacio, secando el suelo y quitando el agua acumulada!! y de a poquito empezó a despejarse y aparecer el sol para ayudarnos a secar el tablao.....

ya estaba todo preparado! Y este año iba a ser una jam fresquita!

Empezamos puntuales, siendo ya un buen grupito de unos 20, y poco a poco fueron llegando los vecinos de las alpujarras!!! acabamos en un colorido encuentro!! de unas 50 personitas.

Compartimos algunas  de los momentos capturados!

Concluimos después de la segunda pequeña danza orientadas hacia Madrid, con un círculo de agradecimiento y estos fueron algunos de los comentarios que cosechamos:

-      Agradecimientos a todos los participantes, a los organizadores del evento, y a la cesión del espacio.

-      Alegría de haber compartido con tantos niños, adultos, músicos, animales y naturaleza, de esta gran diversidad fluida.

-      Destacar el poder disfrutar  tanto a través de la danza y el compartir desde los cuerpos.

-      Un privilegio estar en este entorno natural, y poder danzar en él. Valorar y agradecer el hacer posible estos encuentros.

-      Curiosidad por continuar investigando cómo se amplifica y qué cambia cuando realizamos estos trabajos en el exterior y en espacios rurales y naturales.

Gracias!!! y nos encontramos en la próxima!!

Still Images from a Past Present Moments at Malaysia

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From @TheGlasgowJam 

Our small dance facing towards Madrid, with people drawn from across Scotland.

"The kids in the park didn't know the score

Except in football. There they were,

Nonetheless. That's the thing about consciousness.

Ruthless in capaciousness. The more

We look, the more we see. The more we move,

The more we feel. Our minds extend out to

That field, those boys, their ball: toys of our

Inclusion, all. A global underscore

Need not be sane, need not be fair; it reminds

Us that we're there, always, prior. Everywhere.

Where we look, there is the world: Madrid, or

Wales, or here. Standing on this mended floor,

We are together in our war to make

It all make sense, our disparate intake."

(Sarah Tolmie, who was visiting us from Canada)

("The Global Underscore" by Dominic Snyder, drawn during the practice)

Participants (from Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and beyond!)

Penny Chivas
Tom Pritchard
Gregor Giertner
Nicole Swierkowski
Alex McCabe
Anothonly Ogley
Beck Elphinstone
John Campbell
Clive…
Loda…
Li Huang
Indra...
Laurat...
Tatiana Koprivova
Nina Enemark
Chuen Liang
Dave Murphy-Dust
Sarah Tolmie
Ole Michael Caspers
Mellina Daniel-Dempsey
Frank Koenen
Dominic Snyder

Grand soleil !

Petit groupe de danseur réunis par les airs… et tant de rencontres inattendues avec des non-danseurs !

Heureux d'avoir été dans une "ligne de danse" allant de Quito à Montréal en passant par NY : réunion des Amériques hispanophones, anglophones et francophones.

Je vis toujours le Global Underscore comme un moment de prière pour la paix dans le monde, et peut-être plus encore cette fois-ci.

Merci

Franck

Franck Waille

Identifiant skype : franckcw

Sites : www.franckwaille.sitew.com

  :  www.chorame.sitew.com

Knoxville Video

Here are 10 minutes from our experience in Knoxville!

Amelia

Lyon, France

A feeling of giving and receiving, sharing space in the middle of Sunday afternoon, in le Parc de la Tête d'Or, families picnics, friends playing, us dancing.

failed?

Hi all you dancers round the world,

our wonderful space in Erlangen provided so much light, careful preparation....but nearly none of our contact community came in to join. Kalle, Gabriele and Dagmar were the only ones. As dagmar dropped in it was already past the starting Time, our decision to cancel the Underscore was already made. I feel disappointed, cause it´s such a wonderful structure and Solveig and me where so much looking forward to this event.
But as it always is in life....it is what is...
Luckily, Iris Voss, the provider of the dancing space, canceled the 100€ fee, thank her very much!
What I experienced was the question occuring: How many dancers does it take for me to fill the space for 4 hours. I still think i would have liked to take the advantage of doing it with 5 people, but the dynamic in the group was not to do it, so I followed this move. And we went to the next cafe, later on playing in the park.
At 20:00 we faced to the west with our harvest from the day.
Also not beeing really part of the global Underscore I felt as part, as just beeing with you the way our situation turned out to be.
So failure is not the question, we do what we do, things happen, we make decisions and move on, learning with awareness, descriptive,and  most of all joyfully ! It´s wonderful to read and see bout all your experiences. Thanx for all... and maybe next year.
Paula

GUS 2014 images

Knoxville participants list:

Thanksgiving! 

Mariam Allard
Madi Mansouri
Ashley Corey
Bohu Fortova
Angela Hill
Lauren Wilson Phillis
Amelia Breed






Our Space: 
Yesterday the room was creaky and rumbling. This morning it was sleepy, calm, quiet. Snug under a thick fog. Wood floors, wood ceiling, wood columns make good dance partners. It's dusty in here! There are things my cat might like to play with lying in the corners. We are underground, buried beneath homes, work, art. Later there was music from above, and then again quiet. 

Reflections/Harvest: 

[         ] homesickness. gratitude for time, attention, perseverance, patience, trust. dreams. imagination. many seeds. time for growing. very tired.  -Lauren 

Brooklyn Harvest Entries

GLOBAL UNDERSCORE 2014

BAX 5th Ave

Brooklyn

Studio D Theater

TO BE BLOGGED

we are not communicating until we are not communicating said no one to no one elsewhere there was a play going on off the deep end so to begin again so to speak with you I had to come here there really is not any way out in time to find the lost boys or girls don't only want to have fun sadly it is a yin yang kind of push and pull which leads nowhere somewhere there is a place for us I am sure to be sure to be sure not to be sure…

- K

Quito reminded me that there was a jam mundial de contact. Fui al underscore de Nueva York aca en Brooklyn and we started looking towards Montreal. And we are going to finish mirando hacia ti, Quito. Gracias.

-Sarah

found honesty and appreciation  - kiori

The gift of arriving arriving arriving.

I delight in the moments of departure departure departure,

and somehow my leading edge these moments these years

is arriving into movement, arriving into transformation, into stillness.

- David L.

was back in that familiar space of just being

MAn

Florence endings as beginnings

2014 Western Mass Global Underscore Participant List:

Kristin Horrigan

Rae Korengold

Glenn Smith

Tara Balch

Tom Murray

Kristina King

Patrick C.

Rythea

Christine Cole

Felice W.

Jeff Bliss (partial credit)

Nina Smolar

Beth Dennison

Samantha Burnell

Michael Wojteck

Moti

Liana Foxglov

and thanks to the cucumber guy on the streaming video!

Still in (from Moti)

There's something nice about distractions - how they weave in ideas and thoughts like fruit hanging among the tree like structure of the underscore. The space we are in is filled with outside stimuli... a church group singing praises, traffic, bicycles, children in the hall.  We soak in the influences, confluences and collisions with a playful ease. A year ago I was being driven to the hospital with my arm broken during the Global Underscore - A different kind of experience of integrating distracting collisions.  Drugs, pain, bewilderment.  Now I sit and recall those moments like any other thought bubble bicyclist passing by.  We're always in.  Still in...

- Moti Zemelman
Florence, MA

Contact knows no boundaries

Hi Nancy, from your Florency homeland!

feeling in (from Samantha)

After many satisfying dances, I stop to feel in to it all. I look around at the room, taking a moment to really look into the mostly familiar faces here. I watch with unabashed curiosity and see so many that I love. The history of these people and this dance, warms me. Each face feels like home.
Samantha

Brooklyn stream

I am broadcasting live at http://ustre.am/KPam come and check it out!

Warsaw Space

Our Brooklyn space

Hello from Northampton!

We begin slowly.....

Warsaw location:

logging in from warsaw

hello we are here and i THINK we're linked in.

sending love from warsaw,

here's our video stream: http://ustre.am/1f0cW
xxx nancy

a jpg of the map

49 sites

Summer Solstice Astroscore

Within our Vast Sky of Awareness... we reached the most Solar, most 'Yang'/'Masculine' and longest Day, which is a celebration... of each individual. 

Yes, Sun-star in Gemini has culminated, w it's gifts of 'letting things happen', or recognizing that everything truly already is 'let be'... 'as it is'. The other theme in Gemini has been that true 'honesty', including of the intellect, reveals everything as inseparable from the vast inclusive intelligence. 

Now, the archetype, the sign of Cancer comes into focus, is vitalized by our Sun-star. The emphasized themes become 'decisions' and 'commitments', 'allegiances', creating 'home' 'and 'Belonging'… within/without. It also supports our awareness of, our Sensitivity to, all of our human needs.

Summer Solstice is the point in our Earths orbit where the north pole of our axis tilt begins to face away from our Sun-star, and is the portal where the Night, the Moon, and the Feminine/Yin, Collective/group energies slowly begin their ascent. (The polarity/compliment of Winter Solstice may also be sensed.) This is the very beginning of the 'Return of the Night'… and where the mythical 'Queen of the Night', the Lunar goddess begins her ascent.

Nancy & Mike in Warsaw

Dear Underscorers,

I want to share this beautiful description Nancy sent to me of their space in Poland.  Keep in mind as well they will have the singularly special pleasure of Mike's sounds.

Excerpted from an email from Nancy Stark Smith:

The Global Underscore in Warsaw will be one of the final events of the V Poland Contact Festival Warsaw Flow in Warsaw, Poland, which started on June 18. The Underscore will take place in a beautiful old high school (Liceum im. Stefana Batorego--the Middle and High School of Stefan Batory), in their large, light-filled, wood assembly hall. The ceilings are high, the floor is parkay wood (covered with white marley) and one wall--facing south, I believe--is all windows, to the park and the sky. There are elaborate chandeliers hanging from the ceiling down the middle of the space. There is a slightly raised area at one end of the large space, where the small piano will be, along with Mike and all his other instruments. The participants in the Global Underscore will be the members of our intensive workshop during the festival plus many others from the festival that will join, probably twice as many as our group*. 

(*the registered dancers are listed in the notes of the Warsaw on the map)

Now that facilitators have the username and password to this blog, I encourage blogging all things GUS 2014.

Also if you'd like me to add a space description to your site on the map, I'd be happy to.  Email underscorenyc@gmail.com with subject: space description and "the name of your site".  I can upload a photo too.  Feel free to blog it all!

Happy dancing!

xo xo xo b

Dear Facilitators

Dear facilitators,

We at Underscore NYC have just issued the pdfs to help you with your organization toward our shared Sunday practice.

In the event information changes, we will be updating THE MAP.  For instance, NOTE: Montreal is now a satellite.

In case anyone was wondering, the red white and blue site markers in the Indian Ocean on the map are a legend; they have the names and descriptions of the practice categories the colors represent.

We've done our best to inform and include and hope to continue to refine our yearly process.

So excited for us to all dance together!

xoxo

Brandin S and Nancy H

Facing List Illustration GUS 2014

The Facing List for Global Underscore 2014 arranges the sites of this year's practice in order of longitude from west to east.  

(Full Practice and Modified Jam sites SKIP OVER the Satellites; Satellites use the order to join into the zig zag the other sites make.)

NOTE: The Facing List is also the list of cities on the rite side of the map.  

If we use the facing list we will make a zig zag line that wraps all the way around the planet.  The westernmost site in North America, Seattle, starts the list and the line zig zags across the North and South America until it jumps over to Europe and across Asia. Seoul and Annandale both face Seattle to complete the wrap.

For "The First Global Small Dance 00:55", use the facing list in the order given.  We face eastwardly toward the rising sun in the beginning.

For example, Berkeley faces Salt Lake City, Buenos Aires faces Las Toscas. We face eastwardly toward the rising sun in the beginning. NOTE: The zig zag skips Satellite sites and Satellite sites face the closes Modifies Jam or Full Practice site east of them. Kuang faces Kwai Chung rather than Perth. Perth also faces Seoul.  Seoul and Annandale face Seattle.  

For "The Second Global Small Dance 03:55", use the facing list in the reverse order.  We face westwardly toward the setting sun in the end.  Seoul faces Kwai Chung, Seattle faces Seoul, Salt Lake City faces Berkeley.   

You may not end up facing DUE east or west; it is more likely you will face a site very northeast or southeast for the first Small Dance, and then face a site very northwest or southwest for the second Small Dance.  But the line follows our vision by our facing in the direction eastward in the beginning and westward at the end.  

ABOUT SATELLITES: Full Practice and Modified Jam sites SKIP OVER the Satellites; Satellites use the order to join into the zig zag the other sites make.  Due to the variety in the kind of participation a satellite may have, we have the satellites face along the main zig zag facing list line, but leave them off of the line.  

NOTE: the picture here is an abstract representative illustration.  Don't try to find your site in the drawing.  It is NOT accurate.   

2014 Global Underscore Map

New Site!

Beunos Aires, Capital Federal, Argentina

"It will be the beginning of winter here, the shortest day of the year. It will be very cold outside."

"Será el comienzo del invierno aquí, el día más corto del año. Hará mucho frío afuera."

New Gus Site in Málaga
, Andalucia, España!