ImPulsTanz Education - Application RS1 Post-Failure Potentials with Makisig Akin & Anya Cloud

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Post-Failure Potentials with MAKISIG AKIN & ANYA CLOUD

Research Project
Week 1: 10:00 – 16:00

This research project queers and disrupts the binary relationship between failure vs. success and collaboration vs. competition. Utilizing martial arts, improvisation, Contact Improvisation, and experimental performance practices participants will straddle the in-between spaces of training, making, competing, fighting, and celebrating. What if failure is not the end, but the beginning? How can we bring failure, falling, flight, and fight closer together? What can we do together that we cannot do alone? How can the queerness of dance and our dancing bodies save us in the wake of our own and collective failure? What if embodied queerness can be an ally for racial justice work? Post-Failure Potentials invites high-stakes and invested research to build the potential for transformation.

Practices will include queer slow fighting, retraining the reflexes, building a collective body, impact practices, tenderizing touch practices, magic, queer love practices, state work, ancestral tethering, resting, and more. Participants will draw on practices of the basic fundamentals of Traditional Northern Style Kung Fu Chinese Martial Arts, Contact Improvisation, improvisation, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Feldenkrais®, dance making, activism and how these ideologies can be implemented in their dancing bodies.

Participants practice taking care as they traverse the complex realities of being racialized and gendered bodies in relationship with one another. This will be a queer, trans, and BIPoC centred space where everyone is welcome. The research material also includes building skills and practices of agency, consent, touch, positionality, generosity, endurance, risk-taking, decision-making, and collaboration. Each one will develop their individual and collective capacity through dancing, verbal discussion, and reflection.

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