THE BODY AS A SANCTUARY

CONSTANTINE BAECHER AND KAITLYN GILLILAND:

Dance may be viewed as a practice of identity – a discipline to form or regain a sense of self.

Physical practice and repetiton turn off the explaining – linguitic aspects of cognition and allow the body to be wholly present, to reach a state of ‘pure’ movement.

Dancers/ Choreographers Constantine Baecher and Kaitlyn Gilliland will explore physical and spiritual practices-ritual, meditation and repetitive movement-used to access body as a santuary.

They will investigate ways that energy and emotion take human form,the potential to create dance ‘steps’ from a place of energy/emotion rather than technique/autonomy, and how movement grows, hanges and erode through time and repetition.

These studies will respond to the landscape and ethic of Shillim.

A sanctuary for body, mind and spirit.

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