A.P.E.@Hawley Presents:
Build-A-Floor Celebration Festival: Honoring floors for dancing and the lineage of Nancy Stark Smith, Steve Paxton, and Contact Improvisation
Thursday-Sunday, May 2-5
Project host: Andrea Olsen
The Workroom at 33 Hawley and Shepherd’s Barn at Historic Northampton
Northampton, MA USA
How do we sense and make sense of movement, from inside and out? While innate patterns of our sense organs are programmed to detect stability and change moment by moment, we layer on filters of attention throughout our lives, building new sensing-movement patterns that help us survive our cultural environment. We make choices from this pallette. What happens when we alter these habitual patterns and filters while moving and observing...anything? A Tuning Score is a living format that offers communication tools for real-time editing, recycling and collaboration within a shared image space. Through our play, we can touch the (extra)ordinary self-knowledge that animates our choices as beings and artists facing challenges together, and collectively reimagine the illusion of a stable world.
Lisa Nelson is a dance artist and explorer of the role of the senses in the performance and observation of movement. She is intrigued by dance behaviors, systems of transmission and translation, patterns of surviving culture and the sense of imagination. She co-edited Contact Quarterly dance journal beginning in l976 with Nancy Stark Smith and continues to shepherd its digital presence into this decade. Lisa dedicates this Build-A-Floor event to her long-time creative partner, Steve Paxton.
All levels of experience welcome; space opens 30 minutes before for check-in and arriving.
Sliding scale: $15-$30 (Income supports presenting artist)
*Photo by Anna Maynard.
