Dancing is a way of being oneself but also being a group. So we made a ritual so we can dance together without needing to have the same dance. To feel togetherness especially when we’re not the same.
This project became an instruction booklet, an operation manual, a hand book and a field guide for how we can dance together within a cosmopolitan and many-cultural reality where we no longer share a dance vocabulary with our neighbors. (it is a generative, generous, non-combative way to rethink acculturation/enculturation, cohesive and diverse communities, togetherness and identity).
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It hopes to be a step by step practise that will disintegrate otherness.
It hopes to be a step by step practise that will deliver ones body back to them.
The book is now in:
- The NSW State Library Archives (Sydney)
- The Farm library (Gold Coast)
- Dance Nucleus studio library (Singapore)
- Critical Path Research Room library (Sydney)
- King St Arts Centre green room library (Perth)
- Dance4 & IC4C (UK)
- RILE* Bookstore and Performance Space (Brussels)
- Sipat Lawin library space Quezon City (Manilla)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BysMh8ZITqD/
watch full show here: https://www.veoh.com/watch/v142027285Ftaqs7DR
performers:
people on the floor everyday:
Vanessa Marian, Tiyan Baker, Mikaela Carr, Matt Cornell
and special thanks to all the people who joined us on the floor sporadically for some cross contamination:
Sally Hare, Adrian Bacani, Elle Evangelista, Kassidy Waters, Lauren Eiko, Sam Smith, Asher Freshneiz Bowen-Saunders, Matthew Massaria, Natalie Pelarek, Joshua Thomson, Angela Goh, Rhiannon Newton, Thuba Ndibali, Libby Montilla, Ivey Wawn, Yukino Mchugh, Sophia Ndaba
https://www.instagram.com/p/BWAfEkWnKok/?tagged=ilearntmyculturaldancefromyoutube
https://www.instagram.com/p/BVzVGktHJvP/?tagged=ilearntmyculturaldancefromyoutube
https://www.instagram.com/p/BWCRWA3DXOhRAqpQHEtGc2lEwCU23ghHJF7lvE0/?taken-by=kassidygeorgia_waters
(In the 2nd (opening night) video, the ritual is preceded by a task to dance every style one has ever seen. This task is separate to the ritual and was included in the theatre as a consideration of having an audience. It came from an initial idea called I Learnt My Cultural Dance from YouTube and has grown into it’s own group and solo project.
The ritual #dancedtogether is designed to be participated in, not to be viewed passively.)
closing night full show:
https://www.veoh.com/watch/v142027285Ftaqs7DR
opening night full show:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/MZ1TBz0NG7OK/
this project was supported by Dirty Feet’s Out Of The Studio program and performed on instagram live and at Shopfront Arts Centre.
post show Q&A video:
reflection written by Vicki Van Hout can be viewed here: An Epilogue To NAIDOC Part Three – FORM Dance Projects – danced together review
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A follow-up “Danced Together” jam happened Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th November at Critical Path as part of Happy hour. Special thanks to Vicki Van Hout and Lucky Lartey who graciously joined be even though they had their own works to present. And thank you to the dancers in the audience who joined for a cycle on sunday.
Article written by Vicki here: One is the only number – FORM Dance Projects
pics and video of saturday below:
Danced Together has also happened at BareBones Workshop at The Farm in Miami, Gold Coast, QLD Australia.
pictured below: Thomas E. S. Kelly and Matt Cornell.
The book is now in:
- The NSW State Library Archives (Sydney)
- The Farm library (Gold Coast)
- Dance Nucleus studio library (Singapore)
- Critical Path Research Room library (Sydney)
- King St Arts Centre green room library (Perth)
- Dance4 & IC4C (UK)
- RILE* Bookstore and Performance Space (Brussels)
- Sipat Lawin library space Quezon City (Manilla)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BysMh8ZITqD/