How to Continue (Together)?
UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance MFA Upstarts Series
How to Continue (Together)? is a two-night event comprised of a panel discussion and a live zoom performance.
On Friday, Apr. 9, a panel discussion, Where is the Body?, facilitated by Emily Barasch in conversation with Moriah Evans, Anh Vo, & Estrellx Supernova, will explore expanded notions of the body inside virtual performance "spaces". We will discuss how locating the body in the liminal zoom space, leading to shifting possibilities for what intimacy looks, feels like, and how it can be accessed. How do we find each other across space and time and what are the technologies of emergent intimacies right now?
On Saturday, Apr. 10, the live Zoom performance, How to Continue (Together)?,
choreographed by Emily Barasch in collaboration with Sanchita Sharma and Miya Shaffer with original sound design by Isaac Silber utilizes the liminal in-between zoom space to co-create a new world together. We engage with micro movements, energetic tuning scores, and emergent text construction to collectively develop a shared language which serves as material to propose a new framework for intimacy grounded in emergence, slowness, and economies of attention. We do not know what will come next, or how we will get there, but we can allow it to radically unfold if we practice deep noticing. This work is a rehearsal for new ways of being in relation with ourselves and one another; these are methods for engaging with nonlinear time, iterative language, and emergent fractal thought patterns.
This event is presented by the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance.
Event Date: Apr. 9 & 10, 6 p.m.
Platform: Zoom
Price: Free
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