PRACTICE

Maria F. Scaroni and Jess Curtis would like to invite people with all levels of movement experience to join us as performer/transmitters in: The Symmetry Project/Transmission, an installation/performance/ritual at the Berlin Tanznacht 08, at the Uferhallen (Berlin, Wedding).

THE PROJECT

Over the last 2 years, we have been developing The Symmetry Project, a mutable performance-installation-media project based on our research witht a symmetrical (left/right homologous) movement practice. The project is conceived and rooted in our experience of the tuning and mediating of sensory information and energy in the body. We have been presenting this perspective on intercorporeality in the form of a structured duet, solo and group performances and installations.

LATEST DEVELOPMENT

Lately, we have been very intrigued by the idea of transmission, particularly how embodied cultural information is passed through communities). The ground idea for our most recent experiment is to transmit this simple score, or movement idea, and its meditative qualities to multiple bodies create a kind of ritual in an open space. The idea is not only to pass the information we have researched, but to instigate a sort of viral transmission, where whoever gets in touch with the practice, can appropriate it and pass it on to other people. This is an invitation to instigate this chain effect, in which bodiesreceive knowledge, process it through their own physical strategies, and transmit it to other bodies.

LOGISTICS OF PRACTICE AND PERFORMANCE

To begin transmitting the physical score we are organizing practice days for people who want to be part of the installation/performance. Participants in these initial sessions are then entitled/encouraged to transmit the score to people in their social circles, and invite them to participate in the final installation. People in those sessions are likewise encouraged/entitled to transmit the practice in their social circles, ad infinitum, et cetera. (We are aiming to gather 100 or more participants so hope to extend to several degrees of transmission.) After participating in at least one initial transmission/practice session, all the “transmitters” and “receivers” will take part in one final community practice session during the Tanznacht at 5pm on Dec. 6th at the Uferhallen, just before all will participate in the final public installation/ritual (duration of 30 min),
in the Hof at Uferhallen at 6pm.

In order to participate in the final installation all participants need to attend an initial session with a transmitter and then attend the final community practice session, however all of the practice sessions are open and free for people to join as much as they like to.

DATES AND LOCATIONS FOR PRACTICE TRANSMISSIONS

UFERHALLEN Uferstrasse 23, Studio 2
Nov 10th, 6-8pm
Nov 15th, 3-5pm
Nov 18th & 19th, 6-8pm
Nov 22nd, 5-7pm

TANZFABRIK Möckernstrasse 68
Nov 17th, 2.30- 4.30pm

K7, Kastanienallee 77

Nov 28th, 6-8 pm

For more information please call or email:
Maria F. Scaroni
mfscaroni@sbcglobal.net
+49(0)1732876244
www.jesscurtisgravity.org