lecture/performance/laboratory

Gasthuis Theater, Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 2001

In 2001 Paz and Litó wrote:
This proposal is an attempt to consider and share, together with the audience, a structure of THOUGHT and PRACTICE for moving bodies and dance discoveries. The idea is to let the audience A PROCESS of the body – in movement - within a set of conditions. The moving body – movement/moved- will be considered as an experimental zone where previously ‘un-conceived’ or ‘perceived’ connections can be mobilized and developed. The conditions we want to set will serve us as questions: a discovery of a problem to ‘expose’ dance as liminal, formless, continual, and invisible.
‘Frames For Moving’ wants to be an INFILTRATION and INTERVENTION and, above all, an ACTION of thought and physicality that hopefully displaces the system it wants to critique – that’s it – to permit a continual articulation of dance within a discourse that tries to control it.”

In response to productions that use movement only as a part of the language.
In response to work that places more importance on the sources and after effects rather than the act itself.
In response to our education and experience with movement education and dance making.
In response to our ongoing study of how internal and external (physical) engagement relate to the vision of movement.
We propose a set of frames. We are defining a frame as a physical state or condition for the body. A premise that the body must continue to relate and surrender to. The selected frame will allow us to commit to non-stop movement.
Movement without stillness in which meaning is flux in which possibility thrives in which versions multiply. Movement as endless transformation.”

concept & performance Paz Rojo, Litó Walkey
lecture Martin Nachbar

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