UnderScore, Choreographic Objects and more¬ is an ongoing choreographic research project experimenting with Scores & Choreographic Objects as tools for choreographic composition, performativity and methodological approaches to the creative process.

As scores can function various forms of instructions, directions, exercises, protocols, themes and variations, graphic representations, symbols, codes, drawings, images, arrangements of information, sounds. Choreographic objects are open systems with internal principles extended beyond physical boundaries referring to an expanded choreography, a way of composing concepts, bodies, objects, spaces.

Through movement exploration with choreographic devices and experimentation with performing possibilities, imaginary scenarios and creative strategies, the aim is to delve into dance as a dynamic condition of spatio-temporal events, unfold a series of phenomena taking place in the body-mind topography, question what is so-called choreographic thought and study practices of artistic creation.

Participants, through open and more structured tasks, are invited to inhabit the performative landscape, play with contents, construction-deconstruction of space, live variable scenographies, create choreographic images, choreographed spaces.

Abstraction is often identified with blankness, nothingness, emptiness. However, for this project abstraction carries open interpretations, multiple meanings, various layers of references and the aim is to reveal that potential.

Embodying Abstraction is an ongoing movement research on creative experimentation with choreographic scores, graphic symbols, notation systems, image schemas, geometric forms, words, diagrams, visual representations and their transformation into movement. 

By proposing new reflective ways of seeing, with an emphasis on visualization which is a dynamic process opposed to sight, participants are invited to generate physical action from images and discover the inherent expressiveness in shapes, forms, orientation in space, light, dynamics, directions. 

Through structured tasks and improvisation material that trigger visual perception, active subjectivity and embodiment, the objective is to explore compositional devices and spatiotemporal choreographic practices.

What if the space was a live, movable, transformable landscape of an active co-creation? What if it was not an empty, passive and negative container? Or not the space of one’s body or another but their mutual space? Inspired by Homi K. Bhabha^* and his concept of the Third Space, this circle of classes introduces a different perspective towards space and its connection with bodies and objects.

According to Bhabha, the Third Space lies in between two or more cultural systems.

Transferring this analogy to dance, the genesis of a new approach based not only to the spaces occupied by single bodies but to the intermediary space is the basic goal. Methodologically, we work with improvisation tasks and choreographic scores performing various dynamics and qualities of the moving body. The reason for choosing this structure is grounded on the fact that education and choreography also seek to find their link. Following this way of transmission, we investigate the spaces existing in-between bodies, bodies and objects, bodies and spatial structures. Specific interest is placed on the idea that neither bodies nor spaces are fixed but they are constantly moving. Participants are invited to enter these physical, geometrical, imaginary Third spaces, reveal the moving events taking place, explore new bodily and spatial possibilities and experiment with the emerging choreographic devices.