All intelligence is collective intelligence.
Michael Levin
With a focus on practices of physical attention developed from Contact Improv and explored in the Ensemble Dancing setting, this 35 minute dance driven project engages actions of trance in finding, organizing, and creating new modes of physical attention and communication – defining the human by our relational practices of intelligence.
Lead choreographer Nita Little, in co-creation with Hudson Valley based choreographers Neva Cockrell, clyde fusei forth, Leighann Kowalsky, and more, guide local Hudson Valley dancers Glenna Yu, Joan Guttierez and Jeff Lyon, and more through a score-based premiere.
Exploring intelligence here, means working on notions of the multiple self to reveal the environmentally entangled human oriented toward being made different by more than human circumstances and the new knowledge that unveils. Actions of investigation and communication between dancers are scored through directed attention acting as a refractive lens that articulates serious states of play. This compositional project is highly dependent upon dancers who have choreographic skills to be able to move away from a dominant visual concern and into other levels of articulation and compositional choice making. Adding exteroception to the definition of the somatic, scores for improvisations organize physical attention across bodies and include set materials that shape the space.
This work is collaborative on every scale of making, in its production and performance. Driving the timeline is an edit of a lecture by James Bridle, Planetary Intelligence. This auditory focus sustains an investigation of the definition of intelligence, as an ability to communicate on the level of communion, not just an ability to speak or send messages. Six to ten dancer/choreographers will each be given sections of this lecture in advance to develop scores in collaboration with dancers of their choosing that nest and weave together, forming the fabric of this performance. The goal is a 35 minute work that embeds the audience in explorations, articulations and evaluations of intelligence, not as a thing, but as a process, not as a single being, but as a collective of beings.
Accessibility: Most of the performance will take place in the Barn, which has a wide and level entrance and is wheelchair accessible. Weather depending, there may be part of the performance that takes place by the lake, which is a 5ish minute walk down a grassy hill, that is somewhat steep and uneven ground. There is an option to drive down to the lake as well. There are no fully ADA accessible bathrooms onsite. If you have further questions about accessibility please reach out Contact@WildHeartCenter.art.
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