STILL DANCING is a performative event inviting the feeling-thinking body to slow-down. Developed as part of an artistic research intimately linked to the personal path of the artist as dancer-anthropologist, it presents an exhausted body learning to do things differently through the practice of ‘stilling’. By letting go of expectations, cultivating an openness to what comes through, or simply claiming the right to rest, the piece intends to question self-destructive patterns and evoke embodied memories of the new. In-between contemplation and action, it draws attention to the hyper-acceleration of current times, the vulnerability of being, and the subtleties of affect. A quiet but forceful rebellion against the imperative to be productive, a radical quest for ways of dancing otherwise.

 

Concept, dramaturgy, dance practice, performance: Tania González / Sound: Mar Esteban Martin / Light: Ryan O’Shea / Research guidance: João da Silva / Choreographic accompaniment: Núria Guiu / Performance assistance: Danielle Gallia-Kind, Karolina Rupp, Feli Navarro / Documentation: Fenia Kotsopoulou, daz disley / Supported by: Home of Performance Practices, Centro Coreográfico Canal, Teatro de La Laboral, RCPD Mariemma de Madrid, Centro Coreográfico de la Gomera

 

Premiered on May 8, 2023 – ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem (NL)