by Margherita Landi and Agnese Lanza<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There’s a tendency to perceive absence as immaterial, forgetting that its perception requires access to our physical and emotional memories. In essence, we cannot miss what we don’t know or remember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Embodying Absence” represents the final phase of approaching the theme of absence. Following “Dealing with Absence” (absence as distance) and “Touching Absence” (absence as relationship), this last step entails a process of exploring and accepting absence as an inner state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The project aims to work on real-time learning of a short movement score through a headset, then practicing inhabiting the voids of memory of what has been learned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The choreographic contents depict scenes evoking something we all know well: children’s play, free and imaginative movement when around the age of 4-5 before being influenced by prejudices or expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n