The Essence
An exploration of the elusive quality at the heart of rhythmic dance and music; hard to describe and even harder to find.
14:00 - 16:00
Teatret Zeppelin, Valdemarsgade 15, 1665 København V
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the artistic research
At the core in the research of The Essence is a quest to understand what makes dance and music truly resonate with the human spirit and mind.
Is it the pulsating beats of the drums or the fluid movements of the body? Or perhaps it's the symbiotic relationship between rhythm and dance that gives birth to something greater than the sum of its elements. Within the framework of this residency, the artists will use Afro House as a tool to get closer to the core of what The Essence might be. Central to the exploration is the process of breaking things down to their soul elements. By stripping away the layers of complexity, they hope to find what or what not lays within.
the artists
While the artists all share a background in professional dance training, their creative interests stretch beyond "just" dance.
Jolie Gambula, Charlie Luccini, Emina Musti and Raffael Bender have been invited into this residency through the open call IN PROCESS – Rhythmic Dance, whose focus was on the development of methods and choreographic approaches that evenly prioritise improvisation and freestyle as well as choreographic phrases. The open call also emphasized a focus on choreographers and dancers specialized in specific historically-founded dance traditions, with an interest in developing performing art formats that e.g. include steps and movement coordination, choreographic formation work, improvisation, precision, personal style and a strong expression. The open call was curated in collaboration with Marie Kaae Schmidt.