FREE live streamed EXPERIENTIAL ART EVENTS - saturdays in september
Sense, imagine, dance, create, connect. We invite you to join us in dance, improvisation and visual storytelling as we develop a projection dance work exploring the power of collective human action. Express and process feelings and thoughts through movement and art, contemplating environment, climate, the pandemic and regeneration. Experience creative processes that investigate the spectrum of emotional responses to the here and now and how creating art can evoke new ways of thinking and being. Explore emotion in your body. Experience synchronicity. Imagine change. Sense the power of collective action.
how the online events work
This free online event series is designed to suit all levels of experience in movement, improvisation and dance from beginners to experienced and all abilities, including the very active and those with limited movement.
The events will be hosted on Zoom and led by Dan Goronszy, a multi-disciplinary artist with extensive experience working with communities in crisis using arts as tool for expression and recovery. She draws on participatory installation, live art, puppetry, public art, social practice and visual theatre. She will be joined by dancers Stéphane Hisler and Emma Riches.
For the best experience, cameras and microphones will be turned off for the first three events. You will be guided through workshops, you may like to follow our artists or do your own improvisations, be led by your own impulse. We will gently guide you throughout. You can ask any questions or share comments via the chat function. Come for one workshop or all, each will be their own experience. For the final event on 26th September cameras will be switched on to record participants dancing as an ensemble. Performance could be your whole body dancing, or just some of your body e.g. your facial expression or hands, or if you prefer something you draw or move as a puppet. The final recorded sessions will involve a warm up and two guided dance/movement sequences. If you’d like to participate in the final session but not be recorded, you can join in with your camera off.
when
Saturday mornings in September: 5th, 12th, 19th
10am – 10.45am Children age 5 and up and families
11am – 12pm Adults and teens
26th September
10am - 10.40am All ages recorded session
12pm - 12.40pm All ages recorded session
BOOKINGS
The Port Phillip EcoCentre and Friends have a community ensemble session booked on 26th Sep at 11am, contact us for details. If you’re based in or near the City of Stonnington (Victoria, Australia) and would like to dance as as an ensemble with your own group for a final recorded dance session, please contact us to book a place, numbers are limited. Email: humanxhumanxart@gmail.com
about the projECT
Human x Human is a participatory projection dance work exploring the power of collective human action. In this time of the Anthropocene with its ecological and human-health crisis, what are we collectively experiencing through grief and the contemplation and ignition of change and innovation. How has globalisation, urbanisation and computerisation altered inter-human relations? In response to the recent bushfires and current pandemic, how might this social, environmental and economic rupture, reform interactions with the global economy, human ecology and nature. How are we connecting and reforming our relationships with each other, nature and technology? What sort of future do we want to create for our community, ecosystems and economy? How can we evoke thinking in long time scales, not election cycles? Contemplating these ideas Human x Human explores the power of collective human action.
Imagery contributions responding to the project will be shared on social media on Caroline Packham’s facebook page and instagram and by using #humanxhumanxart. You can also send to be included in the video and projection work by email humanxhumanxart@gmail.com and/or share it online using #humanxhumanxart
An excerpt of the work will presented online in 2020 and projection events will be presented in 2021 in the City of Stonnington.
artists
Caroline Packham - concept, creative director, video, animation, projection design
Stéphane Hisler and Emma Riches - choreography and dance
Dan Goronszy - participatory art events
Music - Cold Hands Warm Hearts, Grace Ferguson and from freemusicarchive.org Nctrnn and Noel Griffin
Contact
partners
The City of Stonnington proudly supports Human x Human.
Special thanks to Ai Learning Solutions and Atticus Media for their additional support.
