Touch Labs
"Touch and Empathy Labs" are a series of labs that I organised with tango dancer and psychologist Dr. Dasha Kolesnyk. In the labs, we work on techniques and exercises that would improve connection to a partner. Beside our personal input from our acting, dancing, psychology and performance backgrounds, we explore touch as a tool for connection. Touching itself brings two bodies in relation. 'The only barrier between your consciousness and my consciousness is my bloody skin' (2012) said neuroscientist Prof. V.S. Ramachandran in a conversation about the neuroscience of empathy and compassion. The far-reaching effect of touch was also observed by Aristotle as the most common primary perception, necessary to the other senses (1961, 9-11, 423b). |
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Exploratory Dance Labs
Contact Improvisation
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Argentine Tango
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Ritual dance
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Butoh
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