Lorena Gutierrez & Tom Jules - Being in bodies | 22 may - 3 june
Exchange and experimentation on the ways of entering to the body to dance it.
Synopsis

While "being" (ser) appeals to the static, "being"(estar) appeals to change, to the dynamism of states.(*Please notice these two are different verbs in spanish language, the original language in which this document was written). Being opens us to listening to moving through the different, to being receptive and embodying new possibilities. Being reminds us that nothing is permanent, and that the body, at every small moment, changes thanks to the inevitability of affecting and being affected.

 
Biography
 
Lorena Gutierrez & Tom Jules Samie
Tom and Lorena meet in 2019 at the Ecole des Sables, where they spend about 6 months between Senegal and Togo sharing movement practices and opinions in relation to "ways of inhabiting bodies". Currently, in 2023, they meet again with the desire to resume the exchange. Tom Jules conceives the body from the animist cosmogony, in a constant relationship with the spirits and ancestrality. His dance is a training where discipline, physicality, resistance and precision are more than latent. A training that calls for self-observation, empowerment, and self-awareness and its connection with the environment. Lorena studies the possibilities of movement that open up from listening to the different body systems and anatomical study through somatic and exploratory proposals. From anatomy, she proposes entering the body as a place open to play, imprecise, kind and receptive to the more emotional, sensitive and psychological side that movement transmits. Both are praxis of different characteristics, however, both advocate being in a body that is aware of itself, receptive to its environment, aware of the exchange of affecting and being affected, aware that it is creating while allowing itself to be created. We both have a special appreciation for education from a holistic point of view, thinking about how it affects us when it comes to being as subjects in this world and participating in it. We are interested in the intersection of our differences and the social potential found in the education of the movement. How both modalities participate in some way in the idea of "decolonizing the body". For this reason, in this residence we want to be in the same space, experiment and exchange about our different ways of entering the body to move and dance it.