
(Un)Domesticated Bodies: Live feed
by Rosalind crisp
(Un)Domesticated Bodies consists of two parts: The first part, entitled Two Gal(ah)s, is a collaborative work between Rosalind Crisp and Susan Leigh Foster, which was presented in the summer of 2017 as part of OPEN SPACES/SOMMER TANZ. It plays with two very different dance stories. The second part, Live Feed, also features other dances (such as those by Trisha Brown) and other bodies: these include 15 teachers who enriched the foundations of Rosalind's practice and hundreds of Western contemporary dancers who have experience with her method. Live Feed, in turn, emerges from this history, both as a social experiment and as an artistic work.
The trouble with dance is that movements seek their own path and want to escape with the dancer. The dancer, seduced by the promise of being carried like a baby, succumbs and immediately surrenders his artistic power. This happens in billions of barely perceptible moments. To be fully awake in all of them would probably bury the dancer under an avalanche of impressions and possibilities and hinder everything except the bare minimum of movement. Perhaps this is why dancers move so much: to escape their bodies. In any case, in the impossibility of focusing one's attention on everything that is constantly changing in the body, in this failure, this confusion, something artistic may be born.
Rosalind Crisp