What They Say About Bodies, 2024
Live Performance, 60 minutes
In her teaching, artist and dancer Yon Natalie Mik proposes a collaborative practice in which students engage in exercises examining modes of expanded choreographies. Kinetic dialogues with oneself and others probe the body as a site of knowledge. Movements drawn from places of vulnerability and unpredictability, become the material for building multi-faceted bodily structures that embody individual or collective expressions of refusal, empowerment, and support.
What they say about Bodies—performed by students of the State Academy of Fine Arts—is the sharing of these ongoing thoughts and rehearsals. It is an invitation to become part of our social choreography as we continue to explore what it means to convene, move together, and make our movements public. We continue questioning how choreographic knowledge can serve as a tool to engage in dialogue with seemingly rigid authorities, social norms, or forms of discrimination. We keep asking how our bodies can touch, hold each other, slide without collapsing, rotate, or pause a few more seconds before approaching another with more care.