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Tender Hotel Old
Through the 24 hours, please always arrive ON the hour (we would really struggle with late arrivals). We then introduce you to the Tender Hotel's navigation, temperature and provide the links to the off-site facilities. Between some activities you can come and go, as you please. Others invite your stay without drop-ins. You can of… Read More »
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Drag Queens Acts
The videos were created intently for the Grand re Union JAM in the frame of June edition. Due to the Facebook copyright policy, we couldn't stream the performances on our channel. To watch the videos, please go directly throughout the link. Sound & Color / Hey Black Child(part 1) by doom body (fka Eartha Kunt)… Read More »
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Maytestowe
Numbers
Draw or think ten numbers 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. Identify each of their Unique Qualities; personalities, flavours, textures, rhythms, as you feel them, or they seem to be wanting, proposing, desiring from you today. Now pick your birthday, or shuffle all ten into a random combination, and start moving. Repeat, shuffle, pause, rewind to your body and heart’s… Read More »
Touching With Lines
It is an individual drawing practice, however I suggest practicing it in groups to learn from the others’ ways of taking the score. You can practice this score anywhere: you only need something to draw and something to draw on. Choose a part of your body. If you can see it, close your eyes. If… Read More »
Going High
Bone Sounding Score
To be done alone or with a podded partner. Walk outside and to the quietest place you can find, where you’re surrounded in the most trees and grass and sky or other natural elements you can find. Open your mouth wide and put your lips on your own, or your partners, or a tree trunk’s… Read More »
Let’s Explore Sun Positions
a score on finding nothing for anyone who is barely breathing 1 – find a ray of sunshine2 – expose any part of your body to it3 – let the sun touch you4 – don’t worry if it costs you a lot of effort5 – try to look for nothing, but don’t worry if you… Read More »
a score for urban improvisation
leave the place where you read this when you are on the street, take the first left. walk until you encounter a word. record it take the path in the opposite direction of the word, and walk until you encounter the next word record it repeat the last two steps until you have seven words.… Read More »
A Walk
Walk forward in silence and without company for some time (suggestion: longer than you do daily). Try to be in walking. What is your pase? What kind of ground are you walking on? How does it feel? What do you see around? What do you hear? After some time let yourself be attracted to one… Read More »
Pierre A Trois Temps
time one – stop on the wayfind the stonefind the good stonefind the old stoneFind the stone that will find you. Please do touch! time two – pick up teaching of the stone fully presentlisten withyour hands,your eyes,your body,your imagination Please do touch! time three – lay it down when the teaching is overplace the… Read More »
four directions, above & below
walk until you find a rough spot on which to stand; look towards the north while considering a place of political strife or environmental catastrophe, in the general direction of your focus; as you let your feet soften and find comfort, in whatever way you wish to do that, project the softening and easing within… Read More »
score for active relating: Marysia
I accept the invitation from my dear collaborator Meg Foley: Score for active relating. Take 1: I take my car and go to the Centrum w Ruchu in Warsaw. On my way to the small studio I pass by the storage and pick up one box of props made by Alicja Bielawska for my solo… Read More »
Score for Active Relating
Move backwardsMove backwards until your curiosity – your desire – is caught by something in the roomAn objectA spaceA play of lightA relationship____________ (fill in the blank)Meet that thing (there is enough room around the center of your attention to move as you need. You are never held to something unless you want to be.)MEANING… Read More »
Active Situating
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Dimes and Yar
my hands aren’t wingspour weight but not out into space or the floor just to the surface“forget who gave me this sweater” I remembermoving around two axis at once (dumb)an angle is made by gifting your whole bodyshiny thingsa wormhole for a frameworkencounter = see (duh) plus let self be seen which fucks up seeing… Read More »
Every 10 Seconds
Back Flesh
Corto libro a an Anonimo
English / Spanish Estimado anónimo! Contar los hechos de una situación sorpresiva, aparentemente negativa, puede no ser fácil, pero puedo decir que muchas veces de situaciones sorpresivas se sale con muchas enseñanzas. Esta es una de esas situaciones. En febrero del 2020 hice un viaje a Colombia para visitar a mi familia. De repente el… Read More »
Watching It Happen
WednesdayNov 4th, 20207:30am I did not watch the news last night. Instead, I looked at a small robot color in the states once they were called. Borders made by men so thin on this paper. To scale, the robot hovering from left to right making tiny halted rotations as it colors in blue and red… Read More »
America Called and Wants its Oligarchy Back
Burn the Flag 11/01/20 I have never really been a flag waver, and after these last four years and in particular the months leading up to the election, I am much more at home with flag burning, than flag waving. In fact I have burned many flags in dance settings, over the years. (always burn… Read More »
Casters (The Nightingale)
I. When they pressure-washed the pigeon nests the finches came out to singYou can hear dominance invert in melodyI’ve been thinking about how birds screech to assert healthy strengthA dignified prowess until their mortality vertebratesAnd makes drywall bones crumble to dustYou watch our planes fracture in opaque omissionThe more complex the birdsong, the softer linen… Read More »
No More Presidents
Jeff gave me a wand. It’s gold and silver tinsel taped to a long plastic stick. Later that night it felt like my flag, one I can feel proud to twirl. The way the light sparkles on the tinsel is enough to make me smile. I hate the u.s flag. I don’t think people realize… Read More »
Meditations on the Movement of Power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YeDF-EGuB4 In response to the invitation to share my reflections on the movement of power immediately following the recent presidential election in the USA, I broke out and literally dusted off my copy of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination by Robin D.G. Kelly. I recorded my favorite excerpts so that I could listen to… Read More »
Letter from Quarto
[sonaar_audioplayer albums="1441"][/sonaar_audioplayer] English We are in a place of uncertainty. In between or before or after. Not now. Now, more than never. Living the lack of life before the pandemic, absence of meetings with inspiring people, that we hug with our chest. Those that make our world, and with their absence life becomes lonely, desert… Read More »
Letter from Qondiswa
I'm in a cab in the rain from here to here. The driver has set up a plastic sale mechanism to separate him from the customers, there is this thin opaque sheet between us. From inside, we've been watching things getting back to normal. It has been gradual. Like spring this time. Normally I experience… Read More »
Letter from Zsolt
[sonaar_audioplayer albums="1662"][/sonaar_audioplayer] Hello dear friends in Grand re Union! A few months have passed since our first meeting in June. I hope this letter finds you in good health both physically and mentally. Unfortunately it was not possible to meet in person in lovely Poznan and even though it was great and quite exciting to… Read More »
Letter from Yuliya
[sonaar_audioplayer albums="1443"][/sonaar_audioplayer] English PastI am sitting in my apartment in Warsaw and reading the news. The court sentenced to 10 days of arrest the sound engineers who played "Khochu Peremen!"* ("Changes!") by Viktor Tsoi in Kievsky Park and interrupted the pro-Lukashenko concert with this song. It has already become an anthem for change and resistance… Read More »
Letter from Shira
[sonaar_audioplayer albums="1442"][/sonaar_audioplayer] Hello dear, This is a letter from me, Shira, from my home in Jaffa, as I am sitting in front of my computer, in my body. How do you start to describe what has been happening, here, in my thoughts, in my heart, and in Israel/Palestine? I would like to initially share that… Read More »
Letter from Salome
Dear Grand re UnionersI am Salome Sordia, independent curator and cultural project manager based in Tbilisi, Georgia. I have more than 10-years-experience, in both visual and performing arts, so basically this is the field I’m so passionate about. However, suddenly I woke up in the reality, where the human existence was totally uncertain and that… Read More »
Letter from Neemias
[sonaar_audioplayer albums="1439"][/sonaar_audioplayer] Selfie in quarantine We miss palpable digression.The time of expectations,the flow of afections, sound,saliva, the skin and the smell. Nothing is more permanent than the impermanence of things. At this rate, I am more used to the speed in which the things have changed. I needed to tackle this reality and created spaces… Read More »
Letter from Mariana
[sonaar_audioplayer albums="1438"][/sonaar_audioplayer] September 2020 Dear; While fixing one of my face masks (literal translation in colombianism tapabocas: mouth-coverer), I think… it rains again.(...)Well, as I was saying. while fixing one of my tapabocas, I think, with a bit of rage, how ridiculous! I think about having a transparent one, one that could be un-use(full). Better… Read More »
Letter from Wojtek’s Mother
15 June 2020 I am writing to you in regard to the official letter of Mr Kaczyński. I am shocked by its content. The letter concerns LGTB and children of different orientation. These children, especially school-aged boys, are exposed to bullying, abuse and humiliation by the so-called ‘normal children.’ This type of bullying often leads… Read More »
Letter from Katja
Minsk, Belarus Wednesday morning, I’ve been falling asleep accompanied by the explosions of noise bombs for three days, there is a constant hum in my ears, there is still no Internet. I am preparing a white dress for me and my friend, fortunately there are fresh flowers at home. It's not far from my house… Read More »
Letter from Kasia & Ania
Dear All,it is 2020, the year in which I'm celebrating my last twenties. Well... there's a saying that life starts after thirty. Mine for sure. For last two years I am fighting against my stroke-ness and I'm finally starting to win, walking out my disability. I'm doing small steps - more and more - all… Read More »
Letter from Inna
[sonaar_audioplayer albums="1434"][/sonaar_audioplayer] Belarus. Summer 2020It feels like an eternity… Nobody could have imagined that we would face an even more difficult challenge after the coronavirus. A summer of incredible discoveries, queues, pain, fear, tears, constant inner choices and titanic work to achieve acceptance. This summer, the following words are often heard in our vocabulary: violenceprovocationfalsificationavtozak… Read More »
Letter from Hasmik
From: Hasmik Tangyan / 16.09.2020, o godz. 05:59 / Armenia Dear,I have nothing to say with that letter.sorry for this very late reply. I just wanted to say that I am not at capacity emotionally and timewise and I won’t be able to make anything.Whatever I do is artificial.Hope you are well and sending warmth.… Read More »
Letter from Hadar
New York, USA Light showers in early September. Cool drops in the warm air. I have been called whenever it rains to go out, to stand barefoot on the sidewalk in front of my house, or walk down the block. Tonight, I sang with the crickets and the droplets, finding their pitch and harmonizing. I… Read More »
Letter from Filip
[sonaar_audioplayer albums="1417"][/sonaar_audioplayer] Dear friend,Let me start with a memory. I remember writing articles about modern patriotism in high school. I argued with my colleagues that there was a certain attachment to the nation and even a patriotic duty. I defended the idea of attachment to the nation, its culture and traditions. With sadness, and even… Read More »
Letter from Dragana
“Perhaps the true society would become BORED WITH DEVELOPMENT, and would out of freedom leave possibilities UNUSED, instead of storming alien stars under a confused compulsion”Theodor W Adorno “Sur l’eau”, in “Minima Moralia” Dear Anna,It is your birthday today. I don’t know which one, but this in your case really doesn’t matter – you are… Read More »
Letter from Anderson
Message from Dandara https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orRZtGJCctk [sonaar_audioplayer albums="1416"][/sonaar_audioplayer] Camaçari, State of Bahia, Brasil My name is Anderson Santana Dantasand in this moment I am a piece of myself in anyone I have ever ‘touched’.I am a body, isolated from others, some sort of a scientific experiment over myself. Going to a shop nowadays it’s some sort of… Read More »
In the face of a world pulling apart, we insist on being together. Change is in the air.
Right now how we can be together has changed. However, a crisis was already with us before the pandemic. Art Stations Foundation, CounterPulse, and Movement Research partnered to create an international, intergenerational conference in Poland in June of 2020 to address this crisis. Read More »
The center of the earth is directly beneath each of us. We have something in common.
This project was originally designed as an in-person gathering, and in-person remains the ultimate aim, meant as an opportunity to pause, an invitation to suspend business as usual, a chance to create time and make space. Read More »
Grand (Re) Union is a revival and embrace of the spirit of being united in collective thinking, acting, and dancing.
We conjure the first horizontal improvisational collective Grand Union, established in 1969 by protagonists of postmodern dance. Grand (Re) Union exercises the choreographic traditions borne of that time—renewing the knowledge created then and adding to it the practices flourishing in the field since. Read More »
Choreographing change. Dancing our resistance. Collaborating on connecting.
Still centering the generative act of being together while unhinging from geographies, for now, gives us the opportunity to transcend ephemerality for a moment. Togetherness for us now is a shared focus on this act of mapping. Grand (Re) Union moves from being a ten-day in-person gathering to a two-year platform for commissioning, collecting and… Read More »
We show up to be changed, and by extension, change the world. Together.
So we begin again. We believe resistance and sustainable change to the dominant world order is possible. So we begin again. We believe resistance and sustainable change to the dominant world order is possible. Read More »
We unite in radical connection, transdisciplinarity, and post-hierarchical collective actions.
We commit to the political potential of live gathering. We start now as planned with gathering online on the June 20th, and then on every month, then hopefully locally, andeventually,we desire to meet all together in-person across the borders of nations, and place, and time. The diversity of these frames will enable us to experience… Read More »