Oliver Artur
I'm a queer transgender movement researcher that discovered CI about 7 years ago.
Since the beginning I was amazed about the endless creative potential of this practice - realizing what bodies are able to do together in space
Accepting how impossible it is to escape gravity while discovering all the possibilities that it opens up - coping through touch, sharing weight and using momentum and suspension. Playfulness, physical euphoria, the wild, soft and queer aspect of CI kept my curiosity alive until today.
I source my research and base my practice on the early performances of CI made in the US, when the form was developed.
Anya Cloud, Lily Kiara (Skinner Releasing Technique®), Charlie Morrisey, Makisig Akin, Nita Little, Grégory Chevalier, Defne Erdur (among others) are dancers I had the opportunity to learn from and be inspired by since the beginning of my dance practice and I'm endlessly grateful for these encounters.
Oliver Artur (He/They)
Falling requires active softening as well as an active state of awareness – we will gather all the somatic tools that allow us to fall.
We will research on gravity and levity as forces that complement each other and that create more space for us to exist and move in between.
What if getting more intimate with our fear and risk can be a way of moving safer and wilder?