Contact Improvisation at Piazza Rampi

By Nica Portavia

Research for shared spaces

How to build a shared space?

Are there boundaries?

What practices and strategies can we use to build together new ways of exchange and meeting?

How many possible relationships can we create with space? And with the others?

Research for shared spaces is a performance-laboratory, it is a moment of exploration of ourselves in relation to what surrounds us and to others. It means creating and transforming space, living it in the present, creating constellations of unexpected and inevitable relationships.

There will be no marked border between ‘being inside and being outside’, between those who participate and those who observe. It will be a becoming of events that takes place because there is listening, presence, perceiving oneself as part of a whole that we move together.

We will use the tools of dancing, Contact Improvisation and elements of Underscore, a dance improvisation framework created by Nancy Stark Smith which incorporates Contact Improvisation into the wider arena of improvised dancing practice.

Thanks to Underscore, we will create a common language that will guide us through this metamorphosis game.