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Oct. 19th
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Present: Birgitte, Emilie, Lene, Julie, Marina, Ruth, Sara.
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COVID round. Sharing of personal impressions and boundaries regarding the health and safety of the group and possibilities of touch. Proposal for collective testing before a touch-focused residency period.

Introduction of a collective notebook and materials for writing, drawing, cutting and gluing.

Exercise. You talk you move; you move you talk. Spacialized conversation, collective thinking body. Some topics that appeared in our conversation: is it possible to not move? what does it mean to be still? do I talk whatever just to allow myself to move? what is the difference between conversation and communication? can communication be one-sided? who is Frank?

Rotation system. We had 6 players (2 movers), with 1 minute for set up and 5 for action; played the full rotation and read out loud the notes taken by the scribes. This time, we had the task of taking the move/talk exercise and furthering its research through the system, as each players finds ways to deepen and research the previous situation. We then read the notes created by the scribes and discussed impressions.

Ending round. "Jogral Choir".

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Oct. 20th
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Present: Birgitte, Lene, Marina, Ruth, Sanna, Sara, Tanya.
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Quick contour check. Touching the skin in flow, sitting upright on the floor, starting from the center and moving through outside the legs, inside, backspace, chest, back of the neck and back through the ribs, front and center. Repeat a couple of times and rest at the center.

"Sound cleansing". Find the small "pocket" where your last ribs meet on your chest and hold it with the tips of your middle fingers. Imagine it filling up with air as you breath in. Exhale expulsing all that is stored inside, imagine dust being cleared out as you arch your spine forward towards the ground. Repeat adding the sound for the vowels A-E-I-O-U, two times for each.

Marina interlude. Sharing the original affects, images and attractions that are behind the desire for building up the project, organized around three keywords that compliment each other and allude to cyclic systemic change.

FLOOD: Seasonal flooding in São Paulo. Flooded classrooms and courtyards at University of São Paulo. Sensation of calm after the storm, peacefulness. Endurance and collaboration of those affected. Tactics of infiltration. Excess and overconsumption, breaking point.

UNDERTOW: "Arrastão", in portuguese: massive theft, organized or triggered, of crowded public spaces. Movement of dragging, physically dragging audience members to change their perspective. Retreat for storing energy and coming with full force.

UPRISING: Journeys of June in Brazilian politics, 2013. Changing the maps of access to the city through demonstrations. Breaking of waves against rocks. Evolution towards verticality as cornerstone of humanistic thinking. Movement of coming out and into the ground. Loss and dispersion of identity into a larger, common body.

Soundscape orchestra. We form a circle with our backs toward the center. A person enters the circle at a time, moving with and processing residual impressions of what Marina has shared. The circle supports this process by creating a soundscape on the same principles. 3 minutes for each round. We then had 10 minutes to write about our experience.

Work on a collective sketchboard according to the three principles. Sharing of memories, associations and experiences. Have you been personally affected by a natural phenomena of overwhelming force? What kind of experience do you have with protests, demonstrations and organization for societal change? Open-ended discussion.

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