Final presentation with Pol Pi and students in the dance studies master’s programme of the Freie Universität Berlin
Free admission
I hear a soft piano melody.
The sound of a balloon squeaking in my thighs.
A dark pine forest.
A jazz band in my chest.
I hear a chicken, loud and clear, in my forehead
and a trumpet resonating in my nose – it sounds hilarious in here!
I hear Mozart mixed with the sound of rain.
Silent bells in the distance.
I hear candy popping in my elbows.
Drums clashing inside my hips.
The memory of the sound of stones I used to throw down a pipe as a child.
During the past months we have been exploring together the idea of listening as an intentional act of connection: to oneself, to others, to space, to sensations, memories, thoughts … If sound is vibration and vibrations are waves of movement constantly affecting our bodies–beings, listening can take place through our skins as well as through our ears, as long as we give it our attention. In this sense, we have welcomed expressions from musical and sound language to name both what we explored through movement and through sound, with a specific attention towards the voice as a continuation of and a support for movement. What can we learn from our voices during a crescendo in our hips? We have practised different settings to invite acute attentiveness as a performative state, making space for an embodied intuitive listening or for “what is already (t)here” to take shape and expression through movement and sound. These explorations have led us to create improvisational frames based on different approaches to listening/sensing and sounding/moving that we will share with you in the form of shorter or longer pieces.
Listen
Listen again
Listen closely
Listen with me
Listen through me
Listen to us
Listen together
Alongside
Imagine
Remember
Listen
Listen deeper
Listen beyond
A research project imagined and facilitated by Pol Pi with the collaboration of: Han Yu, Elias Bohn, Mona Hartel, Sofia Attolini, rieke nanninga, Nils Beck, Svea July, Eli Vardzhiyska, Nasia Pliakogianni, Gunnar Örn Stephensen, Marie Leese, Jamila Somboo, Cheng-Jung Tsai, Bauka