Workshop : Kelly Keenan – Slow Build

Objective

Slow Build acknowledges that practice is never isolated; it is always relational and distinct. By surfacing relations and affinities to certain fields of thought—such as contemporary anatomy, feminist science studies, and dance studies (ethics of practice)—this workshop aspires to offer a space where participants can reinvigorate their personal and shared practice interests.

Participants will be invited to attend to the specificity of the practice propositions, aligned with Isabelle Stengers’ call that “no practice be defined as ‘like any other’” (2005). By honing attention to practices as they diverge, Slow Build foregrounds the multiplicity of bodily ways of knowing, hence resisting universalizing conceptions of the body and movement.

Content

Slow Build commits to doing less in a class, valuing time and patience in the name of exploration and integration. Participants can expect somatic explorations that slide into danced propositions, looped coordinations (and songs!), improvisational games and short phrases that gently build in athleticism.

𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Frenglish

📷 Frédéric Chais