The root of this dance workshop is Lucy’s curiosity about embodiment of scientific ideas and theories, and in particular cosmological phenomena. This workshop will research the ways, we can and can’t tackle these ideas through dance, the things we see and feel in the attempts to try, all with the focus of expanding our individual movement potentials, our imaginations, and our abilities to connect dots between distant ideas.
Sessions will start with a warmup using Lucy’s “Metaphors” training technique, which draws on Lucy’s extensive training in butoh and improvisation with Fujiwara Dance Inventions, in physical theatre with Theatre Rusticle and her own exploration of philosophy and dance.
Following the warmup, we will use the scientific thought experiment as a model to explore our personal, improvised movement responses to different aspects and images from the study of the universe. We will pose a question, pick a theory to begin with, and set the theory in motion through the imagination. We will explore our ideas individually and in small groups, playing with our capacities to improvise together and learn from each other.
Participants will learn some of task-based score for Lucy’s solo “heat death” interpreting the ideas in their individual ways, layering ideas and insights from earlier in the workshop.
We’ll end with a chance for reflection through a group chat about our discoveries and what we noticed working together.
The workshop is open to movers of all kinds of experience -- all you need is an open mind and the desire to move.
