sam/ræða

Abstract

This artistic research is based on atypical communication. I look at communication without words, communication between different bodies and communication with and through music. Examples, stories and ideas from personal encounters lead the research as well as theories by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Dan Sperber, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Eleanora Baptista. The focus turned towards communication, bodily experience and how we encounter things in our environment. I will reflect on the process of using this research to create a dance piece, sam/ræða, as my individual project in the third and final year in BA in Contemporary Dance Practices at The Iceland University of the Arts. Methods used to create movement material include Authentic Movement, playing physical games, reading, both listening and dancing to music and taking inspiration from Makaton. The result was a live stage performance created in collaboration between three dancers and one piano player. We created our own story through the process that we told through atypical communication.