I am proposing 8, 2 hour sessions one day per week, beginning NZT June 9 through July 21st, Wednesday 7pm to 9pm, TUESDAY 8AM to 10AM CEST

(Kristian is based in New Zealand so all times are in NZT with CEST noted next to them.)

In performance sound can be an invisible felt force, visceral and alive sparking sensation, emotion, knowing, the desire to move and the desire to be moved.

Sound also has the capacity to complicate and interfere. It can be unwanted music, less than ideal durations, volume that is too loud or too quiet, incidental everyday sonic intrusions, problematic structures in time to be negotiated with movement.

In choreography sound can be a dramaturgical constant, a gateway into meaning, an escape from the bounds of the literal, a toy to be played with, a hefty boundary commandeering mood.  

Taking deep listening as a possible entry point, this online group is for dancers, choreographers. musicians, performers, teachers, artists, or simply interested parties. This is a facilitated event towards the creation of materials, artefacts and presentation events for idocde’s symposium.

The process is open to what it is you bring in your practice, in your research, and in your curiosity. There is room for collaboration, instinctive approaches, new projects,  technical considerations. We will explore our already comprehensive understanding of sound and take a more conscious approach to playing with an expanded palette of sonic creation in the context of idocde’s propositions for the residency.

All the while developing our listening skills and sharing with each other how we use/would like to use sound in our work and daily lives.

Subversion, complication, framing, reorganising, cross contaminating, simplifying. Sound and movement can be considered together with feeling, listening, and producing as a totality.