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AN EVENING OF SPONTANEOUS CHOREOGRAPHIES
October 21

Ashamu Dance Studio
8pm
Free and Open to the Public
Featuring performance by students in the TAPS Advanced Modern Dance course and Set Go ensemble members
Shura Baryshnikov, Sarah Konner, Aaron Brand0, & Bradley Teal Ellis
In a time when we are increasingly detached and technologically dependent, what type of communication humanizes us?  What kind of communication establishes and reinforces bonds rather than isolates us?  When we practice Contact Improvisation, our primal faculties are on display, which can remind us of the pure essence of human communication.  Each dancer is relying on their own body, the most complex operating system we have access to, using the body as a human landscape and exploring movement in the relation to earth’s physical laws as well as a partner.  We are simultaneously negotiating shared choice-making with another human and with an ensemble, creating new languages and mode of communication with every dance or score.  In this work, we practice how to craft from within a composition as movers.  We must zoom in and out, attentive to our own somatic experience, those who we are in relation to, and to time and space within the composition.  We attempt to hold it all in our attention in Motion.
Set Go will also teach a class in the Community Dance Series on Friday, October 20 from 5-7 in Ashamu Dance Studio.  This class is also free and open to the public.  All levels of experience with improvisation welcomed.

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