https://dancingnewecologies.com Emilie Darlet Thu, 25 May 2023 11:49:54 +0000 https://dancingnewecologies.com en https://dancingnewecologies.com/Home-Enact Tue, 18 Apr 2023 13:56:00 +0000 Emilie Darlet https://dancingnewecologies.com/Home-Enact &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; . &nbsp; . &nbsp; . &nbsp; . . &nbsp;. &nbsp;. https://dancingnewecologies.com/References Fri, 28 Apr 2023 11:56:53 +0000 Emilie Darlet https://dancingnewecologies.com/References i. political potential of collectivity ‘transindividual formation of the self’ socially driven imagination Performing the Self ︎︎︎http://www.anavujanovic.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Ana-Vujanovic-and-Bojana-Cvejic-Toward-a-Transindividual-Self-Info-Contents-Blurbs.pdf Toward a Transindividual Self is investigating new ways to consider the political potential of collectivity through the lens of performance.&nbsp; The authors argue that a ‘transindividual formation of the self&nbsp;can bring about different courses of action and a more socially driven imagination’. ii. potential of assembly assemblies in art and activism radical imagination pragmatic utopias Looking at the potential of assemblies ︎︎︎https://florianmalzacher.net/content/gesellschaftsspiele-the-art-of-assembly/ Florian malzacher’s “Gesellschaftsspiele: The Art of Assembly” invites theorists, activists and artists to report and speculate on the potential of assembly: How can assemblies in art and activism create spaces where radical imagination and pragmatic utopias emerge? iii. utopian training camp pre-enact alternative scenarios reclaim the production of the future Reclaiming the means of production of our future ︎︎︎http://www.jonasstaal.nl/projects/training-for-the-future-we-demand-a-million-more-years/ Jonas Staal’s Training for the Future project is a “utopian training camp where audiences are turned into trainees to pre-enact alternative scenarios and reclaim the means of production of the future.” https://dancingnewecologies.com/Contact Mon, 01 May 2023 10:29:17 +0000 Emilie Darlet https://dancingnewecologies.com/Contact Emilie DarletDance activist and cultural worker emilie.darlet@network.rca.ac.ukIG @emiliedarlet Dancing New Ecologies Let’s shape the future we want to live in, join our dance and activist network! <img width="720" height="720" width_o="720" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/60dc406f223f8259429d2bdd7a6009a909c940f330c3b863e0d2c58bb9020fbd/Main.00_00_06_12.Still004.jpg" data-mid="179935555" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/720/i/60dc406f223f8259429d2bdd7a6009a909c940f330c3b863e0d2c58bb9020fbd/Main.00_00_06_12.Still004.jpg" /> https://dancingnewecologies.com/About-me Tue, 18 Apr 2023 13:45:27 +0000 Emilie Darlet https://dancingnewecologies.com/About-me &nbsp; I believe that not only public policies but also personal endeavours may repair and renew our relationship to the world: practices embedded with environmental and social concerns, that foster mutual support, value collaboration above competition and cultivate a sensibility for ethics. Although these everyday activisms may barely be visible in the public arena, I am convinced they hold a powerful potential for political change, fomenting revolution from within. Working to disseminate such practices is essentially how I would describe my practice. Curating contexts for harnessing and channelling participants' creativity and craving for change,&nbsp;in order to promote and support personal active responses to the social and political concerns of our times. Promoting through these initiatives the development of those critical skills that may afford participants “a sense of ownership” of what our world may become. Emilie Darlet is a London-based cultural worker and dance activist. https://dancingnewecologies.com/Projects Thu, 25 May 2023 11:49:54 +0000 Emilie Darlet https://dancingnewecologies.com/Projects Dancing New Ecologies Lab This series of workshops led by Emilie Darlet &amp; Rick Nodine invite participants to explore through Contact Improvisation new ways of encountering and relating, of supporting one another through deep listening in a playful and mindful co-creation. It is an invitation for training one's body and mind to value and welcome the unpredictable and build creatively from it, a space where one may experiment with rehabilitating the body as a valid starting point for decision making and collaboration. A space shaping minds and bodies to interact in entirely new ways with the world around, leaving us more agile and better equipped to navigate unexplored territories and deftly respond to the unexpected, characteristic of post-pandemic times. More agile and better equipped to design sustainable forms of being together. ︎︎︎ emilie darlet Emilie Darlet is a London-based cultural worker and dance activist. Her practice is rooted in the belief that alongside public policies, personal endeavours may too repair and renew our relationship to the world: practices embedded with environmental and social care, that foster mutual support, value collaboration above competition and cultivate a sensibility for ethics. Although these everyday activisms may barely be visible in the public arena, they hold a powerful potential for political change. Her work consists in disseminating such practices. Curating spaces and contexts for harnessing and channelling participants' creativity and craving for change in order to promote and support personal active responses to the social and political concerns of our times. Promoting through these initiatives the development of those critical skills that may afford participants a sense of ownership of what our world may become. ︎︎︎ rick nodine Rick Nodine spent 10 years working as a dancer and 20 years teaching at London Contemporary Dance School. He now teaches in the world to anyone who wants to dance. He teaches Contact Improvisation because it changes what people think/feel is possible.&nbsp; <img width="1685" height="2384" width_o="1685" height_o="2384" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2da43adbfe6ab1c2d7951cbc15aacfb8808d3eb913ea58a77f6b6484ef992751/Poster_Workshop.jpg" data-mid="179928604" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2da43adbfe6ab1c2d7951cbc15aacfb8808d3eb913ea58a77f6b6484ef992751/Poster_Workshop.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="1800" width_o="1440" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/da2cf0eb0e9d234d296de10ceaf5e4ae7872aa92875b30b914dcedeb1bc8d0d9/33091E1E-2106-49CE-9973-D9D30B5DF26D.JPG" data-mid="179928655" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/da2cf0eb0e9d234d296de10ceaf5e4ae7872aa92875b30b914dcedeb1bc8d0d9/33091E1E-2106-49CE-9973-D9D30B5DF26D.JPG" /> Starting by lying together on the floor, we will work together to disrupt our social&nbsp;and&nbsp;professional&nbsp;personas by relinquishing the upright stance of competent capitalist subjects. While close to the floor we will reclaim a harmonious relationship to earth by surrendering to the pull of gravity and accessing pleasure in non-goal oriented movement. We will move on to radically reorient our relationship to physical proximity through experiments in non-gendered, non-manipulative, non-hierarchical touch.&nbsp; By reframing touch as communication based on receptivity and ‘listening’ we will have a chance to observe what selves we become when we stop practicing the capitalist physicality of dominance and submission. Infos: emilie.darlet@network.rca.ac.uk &nbsp; https://dancingnewecologies.com/Writings Tue, 18 Apr 2023 13:45:26 +0000 Emilie Darlet https://dancingnewecologies.com/Writings RESISTING BODIES: Vulnerabilityas a site of emergence ofpost-pandemic ecologies https://dancingnewecologies.com/Thoughts Tue, 18 Apr 2023 14:17:13 +0000 Emilie Darlet https://dancingnewecologies.com/Thoughts i. collective initiatives experiments in alternative political visions self generated&nbsp;collective care Experimenting with alternative political visions︎︎︎ file 202306—05/23 We are witnessing the emergence of a planetary consciousness signalled by the dramatic rise in collective initiatives and experiments in alternative political visions. Talking about the “explosion of all the phenomena outside of unions and political parties”, Catherine Malabou invites us to question and imagine new “dawning anarchisms”, organisations and modes of decision that are based on self-generated gestures of collective care. ii. ¹ Jonas Staal ² Ana Vujanović &amp; Bojana Cvejić’&nbsp; Dancing New Ecologiesembodied collective practices restoration of a politicised public space constructing alternatives&nbsp;to capitalism Cultural Activism ︎︎︎ file 2305—05/23 “Reclaiming the means of production of our future”¹ and rejuvenating our “social imagination”², through art and community building. Dancing New Ecologies aims at investigating how embodied collective practices may contribute to the restoration of a politicised public space by envisioning, experimenting with and constructing alternatives to capitalism, through dance.&nbsp; iii. reinstate the body from an object of knowledge and mastery to a site of learning the Unknown as a valid starting point to decision-making ‘mistakes’ are merely seen as paths of exploration constant (re)examination Rehabilitating the body&nbsp; ︎︎︎ file 2304—04/23 In a moment of human history where the body is kept at bay and where touch is perceived&nbsp;as growingly threatening, we aim to reinstate the body as a reliable site of documentation - through listening to other bodies and one’s environment. The body feeds an instinctive decision-making process that bypasses rationality. Here it shifts from an object of&nbsp;knowledge (and mastery) to a site of learning which relies on the Unknown as a valid starting point to spontaneous decisions, where ‘mistakes’ are merely seen as paths of exploration.&nbsp;The absence of set choreography or instruction eliminates pre-ordained outcomes of the&nbsp;field of action. This encourages constant (re)examination and questioning that produces&nbsp;unique, singular, creative, ‘on-the-fly’ solutions. iv. openness porosity improvability permeability giving form plasticity plastic Vulnerability as a site of emergence ofpost-pandemic ecologies ︎︎︎ file 2303—04/23 It is precisely where the body's vulnerability lies (its openness, its porosity, its improvability in attuning) that one may find its ground for relevance and strength: it is the body’s permeability (its capacity to receive form, its penetrability) that makes the body capable of giving form (to inform, to have an impact on the world): Catherine Malabou may say it is the body’s plasticity - as in plastic clay, that makes the body plastic - as in plastic surgery.&nbsp; v. acute awareness deep listening to others as opposed to reproducing a choreographed set of performative shapes present and responsive open field of potentialities Attunement ︎︎︎ file 2302—03/23 In Contact Improvisation, acute awareness of one’s own embodied experience and deep listening to others are required by the improvisational nature of the dance. It is a form that both invites and trains dancers to focus on sensing movements, as opposed to reproducing a choreographed set of performative shapes. While doing so, it teaches dancers to be present and responsive to an open field of potentialities for the emerging demands of the interaction. vi. facilitating experiences curating frameworks reexamining&nbsp;and critiquing through embodied practices refoundation of our systems Curating frameworks ︎︎︎ file 2301—02/23 My practice has been shifting from producing objects (sculptures and installations) to facilitating /&nbsp;experiences /&nbsp;for others. From manufacturing objects to curating frameworks that invite participants to deepen their own understanding of what it means to relate to the other, in particular through the practice of Contact Improvisation and that may produce political change. My ambition is to create and promote contexts in which people can experience this collaborative investigative lens for reexamining and critiquing capitalist and patriarchal frameworks through embodied practices, allowing for the possible refoundation of our systems. vii. strict etiquette the body informs the ethic laboratory substitute value and welcome the&nbsp;Upredictable&nbsp; build creatively from it better equipped&nbsp; Navigate sustainable forms of being upright position of certainty collapsed position of&nbsp;endless questioning&nbsp; From an&nbsp;upright position of certainty to a collapsed position of endless questioning ︎︎︎ file 2207—12/22 In Contact Improvisation, a strict etiquette states that one ought to move towards what feels right, and to move away from what feels wrong. This means that the body, the senses, inform the ethics. For its practitioners, the discipline is a fascinating laboratory to explore new ways of encountering and being together, of supporting one another. It is a space where one learns to substitute a predatory logic with a collaborative one. A space for training one's body and mind to value and welcome the unpredictable and build creatively from it. A space shaping minds and bodies to interact in entirely new ways with the world around, leaving us more agile and better equipped to navigate unexplored territories and deftly respond to the unexpected, characteristic of post-pandemic times. More agile and better equipped to design sustainable forms of being together. This is how the body becomes political. How it holds the tremendous potential to disrupt the traditional orthodoxies of Western canons and become a critical force debunking stifling ideologies from an upright position of certainty to a collapsed position of endless doubt and questioning. viii. untrained dancers embodied co-creation elaborate ideas device experiment thinking new kinships and ecologies Imagining new ecologies through role plays ︎︎︎ file 2206—12/22 Inviting untrained dancers to an embodied co-creation on the dance floor, based on principles that can be exported and leveraged outside of it, in the public sphere. Similarly to the way in which Ancient Greek theatre operated: through a direct participation in a staged framework designed to help participants elaborate and argument positions and ideas.&nbsp; A device inviting dancers to learn and experiment what collaboration can bring about, as a starting point to imagining new kinships and ecologies for the world that we want to shape. https://dancingnewecologies.com/Home-pink Tue, 18 Apr 2023 14:17:13 +0000 Emilie Darlet https://dancingnewecologies.com/Home-pink Dancing new ecologies &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Step in Dancing New Ecologies is a dance activist network that aims to investigate how embodied collective practices may contribute to the reactivation of a politicised public space by envisioning, experimenting with and constructing alternatives to capitalism, through dance. Dance as a self-organised platform lying at the intersection of artistic stage and democratic arena, where transient communities of non-trained dancers gather to elaborate radical ideas and shape utopian visions.