THEMATICS:
What can be good key points for building a connection and friendship between two people? who does not know each other well, and can dance show us that? In this duet you will meet post Covid awkward greetings, the one-meter rule, struggles to understand eacother but also close connections and flow. In the search for the good meeting points between people, in dance and life, that we all want.
PHYSICAL RESEARCH:
The duet “Are you with me?” works with partnering and Contact improvisationto show the thematic. Because in C.I you solve movement task together with your duet partner. You need the other for the movement and meetings to happen. Through the work we also question if the basics of this movement style: listening, give and take , working together and have some fun, can be good key points for also other types of building relationships and communication.
The idea for this duet is that the thematic and the physical research comes together as one.
Some clipps from the 3 first processes.
Pictures by: Rune Aasen ( Verdal 2022) and Simen Thornquist ( MDG desember 2022)
PART OF A BIGGER ARTISTIC FOCUS:
This duett is part of AKs artistic research and focus around communication and relations( 2021-2023):
Alone, like Knute(r) solo created in 22 and Fire Away solo created in 21. Towards the audience, like with the performance Veikryss and here between the dancers on stage.
DEVELOPMENT AS DANCERS:
This movement style is inside the dance field common in contemporary dance educations. We then meet C.I and Partnering in the working field often in workshops and auditions, but my experience is that I never really train it so much after graduating. Covid also gave a break to touch. This duet is then also a research as dancers to bring more back the style into our vocabulary and bring it into a performative context. I feel we succeeded. This duet prosess helps me feel more confident in the style and teaching it too.
