Back to bone
2015
As part of the Stary Browar New Dance series at Malta 2015, the Art Stations Foundation invites you to a performance of Rosalind Crisp’s *Back to Bone*, featuring Polish dancers and performers. In *Back to Bone*, Rosalind Crisp—a master of choreographic improvisation—breaks dance down into its basic elements. The focus of the performance is not so much the gestures and steps themselves, but rather mindfulness—a key element in Rosalind’s choreographic and dance practice—the ability to remain always in the present moment, to track the impulses that initiate individual movements, and to creatively utilize even the slightest changes occurring in the body. The constant decision-making that takes place even while the dance is being performed allows the dancer to stimulate multiple senses at once and initiate often extraordinary movements of any dynamic, from any part of the body, effortlessly and without a predetermined direction. The body frees itself from previously imposed restrictive movement patterns and releases the tensions that hindered the free flow of energy. In this fascinating and seemingly unstable choreographic and dance space, the creative potential of attention reveals itself to us in all its glory.
CREDITS
Choreography: Rosalind Crisp in collaboration with the dancers
Dancers: Martyna Lorenc, Anna Nowicka, Janusz Orlik, Tomek Pomersbach, Julia Plawgo, Katarzyna Wolińska, and Marysia Zimpel.
Production: Art Stations Foundation by Grażyna Kulczyk
Premiere: 03.10.2014 Stary Browar Nowy Taniec, Poznań; 11.06.2015 Malta Festival, Poznań; 2017, Małopolski Ogród Sztuki, Kraków
