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THE INTUITIVE BODY - RESEARCH FOR UPCOMING DANCE PIECE ”THE UNIVERSE PROJECT”
My current work is heavily influenced by the Chinese philosophical
concept of Wu Wei, usually translated as non-action or doing
without doing. In artistic practice, this doesn’t mean doing nothing,
but rather creating a set of conditions that allows the work to not
be produced, but rather to emerge from what is already there.
During my stay at Arteles, my intention was to write and develop
body practices to share with my collaborators for an upcoming
larger dance piece in Berlin next year, The Universe Project.
It deals with the fact that bodies are simultaneously separate and
inseparable from their environment. I believe that intuition and
energetic work can be “improved” and sharpened through practice
like anything else. The Finnish countryside experience of the body
allowed The Divine to manifest within/without the body/universe/
nature. A lot of time was spent looking at the sky. I also bought an
axe made by a local blacksmith.