Union Square Dansperiments

Here are the most recent fruits of our collective labor...or at least our collective play.

From José Gil's Paradoxical Body:

"Let us remember that the space of the body does not come about except by the projection-secretion of interior space on exterior space"

"In truth, there is no fixed and autonomous space o the body. The space of the body varies according to the velocities of its unfolding, in such a way that it is dependent upon the time the movement takes in opening the space of the body. This time depends on the texture--more or less dense, more or less viscous--of the space of the body, which is born from the energy involved."

The body is not a "phenomenon", not a "visible and concrete perception moving in the objective Cartesian space" but "simultaneously visible and virtual, a cluster of forces, a transformer of space and time [...] a body inhabited by--ad inhabiting--other bodies and other minds, a body existing at the same time at the opening toward the world provided by language and sensorial contact, and in the seclusion of its singularity and non-inscription."

Union Square is already choreographed: in the types of activities permissible in different spaces, in the orchestration of viewership - places for watching, places for acting, security guards and cameras making sure people don't act or watch out of place. Controlled mayhem, inscribed patterns, how might we confuse the boundaries between dancing and being? How might we entwine our body spaces with the spaces of others? In fact we can't avoid doing this.

Music is for fun and to keep ourselves from taking things too seriously :)