ERIKA TSIMBROVSKY
Performance Practice Initiative
improvisation / embodied multimedia experiments / poetic somatic explorations
Meeting to practice group improvisation, we play, move, and bodily explore as individuals of the group with ideas and materials from interdisciplinary fields of art-dance-performance-installation-art interventions, etc.
Each Thursday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Della Davidson Studio, UC Davis
Sessions’ outline:
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6:30 pm to 7 pm arriving, tunning, and warming up
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7 pm to 8 pm, we will improvise, perform, explore, and experiment with time, space, materials, bodies, objects
Somatic Extended Drawing
The goal is to immerse in the somatically poetic conversation between bodies and materials by mutually observing, sensing, and listening to them.
This practice of expanded embodied drawing is a unique, sensuous way of integrating multisensory body presence into the process. It involves interactions of materials, surfaces, and participants. This somatic drawing is a way of listening and becoming ‘other’ through engagement through the affective being as and with materials of the world.
Living Diary, a sharing practice by Erika Tsimbrovsky at A Gathering of Language-based Artistic Research Zentrum Fokus Forschung University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria, influenced this session.
Lightness versus Weight
Entanglements in Writings
Experiencing horizontal practice with the following embodied & extended writing on the wall. Score: Experiencing Horizontal (human beings are usually thought of as vertical beings) Lie down and experience a horizontal (20 minutes or more) Be a layer of the earth (while falling into sky) Possible actions in horizontal: stillness, observing, listening, considering movement, being nothing, being everything, being in-between or among, being material among other materials Meditative Writing on the wall with/about remnants or traces of what happened inside you OR write with the feeling of what happened that remains in your body OR write as a non-vertical thinking OR write about the way that what happens being horizontal yields other ways of being than the human