Pink | Touch&Play 2011

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T&P Spectrum Pink: Politics, gender, community

Touch&Talk – Malaika Sarco-Thomas

If improvisation tends toward fixity, it is the job of improvisers to unravel its becomings.

Swarm Games – Bertrand Kludor

We experiment with swarm behaviour by setting collective scores and giving single individuals extra ideas to touch and lead the swarm.

Gaming Emotions – Bertrand Kludor

Gaining stronger emotions, instead of taming emotions. The workshop seeks to enlarge personal and collective emotional playing fields on two traces. The first trace sharpens basic emotions and translates them into movements and contacts. The second trace introduces different types of games to enrich the playful site of emotional contact improvisation.

Genders & Sexualities on the Surface: researching the embodied experience – Kim Lasdon

I’ve been investigating and researching a project called ‘lesbian bodies/contact improvisation’ with my local community (amazingly abundant with queer women!) in collaboration with lesbian/queer women dancers in Ireland. Our investigations include dancing the ‘shadow of contact’ score, which was generated by and came to us from the West Coast/San Francisco contact community.

Sensual Politics – Daniel Mang

The basic ideas up for reflection and discussion in this lab: a) The boundary between sexuality and sensuality is drawn differently by different people. b) Doing a lot of contact improvisation can change sexual desire.

Building safer spaces and consent — Rachel Dean

One of the aspects of Contact Improvisation that appeals to and fascinates me is its potential as a playground for learning, practicing and experimenting with the ways in which we communicate and build relationships as human beings.