FEMALEtraces presentation for the WAEF 2023

 

 hello, hello, long time:)

there's so much things lately is going on, we were performing, writing, doing festivals, applying for the festivals, and now thinking how to move one all over again:)

but, first things first...

Title of presentation for the WAEF 2023

FEMALE TRACES workshop and research
Presenters:
Helen Kindred & Sandra Sok


“…female journeys, waiting, bodily traces, patterns, dancing ground, spaciousness, body-space-environment, undulations, reflections, ritual, observation, boundaries, breath in our cells, softening, transformation, gathering, passion, place, wildness, re-wilding, dramatic felt, making connection, gathering, listening, possibility, flow, stability-instability, yielding-pushing, nurturing body, bodies of water, sensation, pulsation, belonging, shifting landscapes, inhale-exhale, inner connectivity-outer expressivity, events of the sea, waves, leaves (no) trace, human non-human, eco-feminism, feminist language, layering, female support, dancing goddess, speculative realism, visible-invisible, interconnectivity, trans-corporeality …”

These are some of the scores—prompts/motivations/invitations—developed through the project – FEMALE TRACES performance which emerged through friendship, collaboration, passion for exploring LBMS in natural environments.

The performance work that we would like to share with you is our response to a year-long research process which has involved us communicating through sharing images, video, and written scores as they emerged for us in different spaces/places. We have been engaged in a process of witnessing and sharing, across and within different lands and water.  Sandra has been in Baku in Azerbaijan and Croatia, and Helen in London, UK and Thailand during this research.

Our research engages with literature and artefacts in the field of somatic movement practice, ritual, the dancing female body, and eco-feminism, and is underpinned by our long-standing practices and research in LBMS, particularly engaging with the work of Irmgard Bartenieff through a feminist lens. FEMALE TRACES performance is a sharing of moments of the research in improvised dancing. We embody key principles of Bartenieff’s work – yielding-pushing, stability-instability, inner connectivity-outer expressivity, in relationship with the traces of our bodies in ever-shifting environments, to explore an expanded feminist lens to Bartenieff’s work an eco-somatic performance practice.

Helen Kindred/ Sandra Sok