Sergio Palomares
FALL AFTER EINSTEIN
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
Sergio Palomares
Lately I am increasingly interested in exploring the subtle and the small, in studying and training attention and its relationship to intention.
I am interested in observing how the different dynamics and characters that arise in each gesture and each dance rest upon certain psychophysical states; this is the starting point from which to explore "technique" in CI, always in service of improvisation.
In my classes I like to propose images and metaphors that awaken the imagination to support the exploration and practice of specific technical principles.
During sessions I aim to guide the group through a dramaturgy, experiencing and moving through different states, awakening patterns and preparing the body and attention for dance-in encounter with oneself, with gravity, and with others.
How to find the greatest softness in the most extreme, the greatest presence in the smallest.
FALL AFTER EINSTEIN
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science." - Albert Einstein
The universe is expanding, and movement within it is constant. The paradox is that, at the same time that everything falls into itself, everything is also moving away from everything else. Bodies travel through a relative space-time - relative to velocity, mass, and distance. Falling is eternal, within a time and space that stretch and contract, along a trajectory that is curved, spiral-like.
This is the phenomenon we experience as gravity.
Inspired by Einstein's notion of gravity, this class proposal explores and experiments with how moving bodies relate to gravity, space, and time. Returning to Steve Paxton's question, "What does the apple feel when it falls from the tree?", we will ask ourselves: "What path does the apple take as it falls from the tree?"
We will delve deeply into the principles of spherical movement and the spiral, focusing on maximum efficiency, especially in situations we may perceive as carrying greater "risk."
DANCING THE CONSTANT FALL, DILATING TIME AND SPACE, DISTANCE AND PROXIMITY, SELF AND OTHER, STILLNESS AND THE MOMENT, THE CURVE AND THE SPIRAL.