DANSEatelier
Imagine a long-term open relationship between 11 people emotions frustrations confusions doubts differences illusions DANSEatelier is made up of 11 people, yet shaped, guided and inspired by the many satellites, colleagues and friends who surrounds it. These relations are encouraged through our hosting and semi-curatorial work such as Performance Feast6 and DANSE atelier feat. Friends. where we make space for local and international artists to present their work. This is an attempt to facilitate a convivial space for sharing each other’s work, meet, eat, talk and dance. Our interest in feminism and the importance of storytelling is emphasized in thecarrierbag festival, which is also connected with the wish of reaching out to an international field.
To form a group, and work collectively, requires a certain amount of attention towards how you relate to others and the community as a whole. There lies a responsibility in remembering the privilege of being part of a group. This is a topic we are aware of and practice being sensitive towards. We have a common strong wish to reach out and create platforms together with other voices and choirs. How do we open up for other encounters? One way is through insisting on our individual artistic pathways; crossover collaborations with visual artists, musicians, authors, and architects. By being in other artists’ productions, external processes and making our own projects, we collect experiences which feed our continuous collective work.
It’s a hell of a work to stay unsolid. Always feeling the weight of failure and the light explosion of potentials. Keep it to a gentle touch of compromise. I dare you… The place is pumping whilst people are internationalizing, at home or not. That’s the strength in numbers. Many many mutations. 1 23 4 5 678 9 10 11 Dear you out there floating in outer space, gravity does strange things to you and I’m floating in the most peculiar way. Adrift an ever changing sea, fero ciously unpredictable, with stormy emotions and excitement. The maybe-land scape of things-that-might-happen slides around me. It’s built of slippery rocks, dissolving sand and potentially crumbling bricks. You forge something that doesn’t rest on potentials. Threads of wool. Wool of care. Care taking. Tak ing it slow. Slowly linger. Linger on the way. Wayfinding. Finding out. Outsource. Sources that are woven. Woven tapestry. Tapestry of voices. Voices of many. Many polyrhythms. Polyrhythmic madrigal. Madrigal of parts. Partner dance. Dance me on. On and on. On a wave. Wave to me. Me and you. I’ve been waiting, think I’m gonna make that move. I hope for more relations, alliterations, stories, sagas, pathways, possibilities, constellations and crossings to appear. And with that, I thank you for last time, for today and for the times to come.
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https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/ tyranny.htm http://www.kareneliot.de/downloads/ Deleuze%20Guattari%20A%20Thousand%20Plateaus.pdf
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http://www.maskmagazine.com/ the-mommy-issue/sex/circlusion http://www.trabal.org/texts/pdf/LeGuin. pdf http://www.siphonophores.org/SiphOrganization.php
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https://vimeo.com/199139077 http://danseatelier.dk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/FANZINE_thecarrierbag-festival-1.pdf
