TOUCH SCORE #2 - the sum of your touches
This is a guided journey – beginning from a small object, around the size of your hand, then expanding to the space and presences that surround you in your home.
This touch score is...
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for one person, or more.
To go on this journey, you’ll need…
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a sound-playing device (e.g. a phone or other device that allows you to move freely) + headphones
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an object that fits easily into the palm of your hand, or otherwise easily held.
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a place to sit.
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a space that surrounds you (your home) that you can move through.
Duration: 25 minutes
We will trace and retrace moments of grasping, clutching, manipulating with our hands, and eventually grow into moving, tracing and touching through our whole body.
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Please, put on your headphones and press play:
Notes:
This recording involves many direct and consciously picked references such as Tim Ingold's book ‘Lines’, a text by Filip Mattens: The sense of Touch: From Tactility to Tactile Probing from 2016, my Feldenkreis teacher Wendy Kann’s approach to teaching that is very present these days, but also many other voices, such as one of my long term collaborators, performers, teacher and occasional co-choreographer Ben McEwen, JS Rafaeli, Esse Vanderbruggen / (Both, Two), Anna Muchin, Anna Goette and many more.
Voice/research/writing: Vera Tussing
Silences: carefully provided by my neighbours here in 1070 Anderlecht, Bruxelles (BE)
Foley: Dame Thiam & Vera Tussing & creation Sun, Sun, Sun (2013) for Passerelle, Kortrijk (BE)
Sound: Sculpture Park by Michael Picknett for Both, Two (2017)
Sound editing support: Michael Picknett
Images editing support: Hiros
Links:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
Social Media handles:
@veratussing twitter & insta
#touchscore2
https://www.facebook.com/vera.tussing
Made for DIAH (Do It At Home festival), 2021- Nein & CAMPO:
https://nein.hotglue.me/?diah-instructions-veratussing-instructions