SE.S.TA Blog

In order to obscure the journey we will meander in labyrinth of circles within circles by spiralling the time. Eleonora Siarava is a choreographer, performer, researcher and artistic director of Per_Dance platform of choreographic research (www.per-dance.com). Currently, she is a PhD Candidate at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki-Department of Theatre researching The multiple meaning in Abstract Dance: The choreographic synthesis and the possibilities provided by Perception Theories. In this context she studies the work of Oskar Sclemmer, Merce Cunningham, William Forsythe, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Mette Ingvartsen et.al. Her research refers to the relationship between aesthetic forms, experiental awareness and the notion of atmosphere, the connection between cognitive principles, moving patterns and kinesthetic empathy. Eleonora was one of the participants in Incubator 2019 in the Castle Žďár nad Sázavou and shares here her vibrant memories of the castle journey. 

I have heard snow fall before. Still, I find it sustaining to hear its softness anew. Eryn Bell who took part of this year Incubator 2019 in the Castle in Žďár nad Sázavou works with movement of all sorts. She especially likes awkward moments, and humor. She works with what sensations can be noticed inside of one's own skin and what one can sense of into the world-others around oneself. From this research she make performances, teach somatics, and research social cognition. Eryn Bell shares her observations on the week spent together in re-looped spiral. 

Wondering through the mirrored strip of landscape, transparent culture is failing again. Constant enlightenment blinds us. Laura Eva Meuris is Belgian choreographer, artist, activist and dancer who is currently and continously working on her ongoing project Tracing the past, weaving the future. Within this project she emancipates the audience, challenges her collaborators and generates collective works by entangling, complicating, questioning, layering, tracking and sorting information which are challenging our bordered individualism and human exceptionalist ways of thinking. Laura took part in this year interdisciplinary residency Incubator in the castle in Žďár nad Sázavou and shares her mantra for sustainability in dimmed times.  

Constant enlightenment blinds us. We are looking for obscurity. We occult our insomnia. Adrien Gaumé is a performer and choreographer (aka sidelaner) based in France, working europeanwide. He is currently re-reading  La survivance des lucioles by Georges Didi-Huberman, where he deals with the famous article about Pasolini about shades of light struggling not to vanish or be killed by the horizon in a socio-political and aesthetical point of view. Adrien was one of the participants in this year Incubator and shares his thoughts on this one week long journey. 

Moving the body whose nail fell down because the tongue was growing under it. Fergus Johnson is a freelance artist, dancer and drifter based in Berlin. He is thinking about the dichotomy of vagueness/clarity, the importance of play and playfulness and finding meaning within cloudy logic. He is interested in bodily states, ‘vibing’ (i.e. the mechanisms of communication within social settings), club culture and music. Fergus took part in this year interdisciplinary residency Incubator 2019 in Žďár nad Sázavou together with Eva Priečková - Slovak performer, dancer and choreographer with whome they together create EVGUS - us as a singular being, us in relation to each other, us as a nexal point in relation to the universe.. You can read an excerpt from Evgus diary on what was this journey on obscurity about or where it actually brought us?