This part of my website offers insights into my current research about the role of touch and closer proximities during performances and beyond. 

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The Corona Virus pandemic has heavily impacted my research, as I could no longer meet my performers and even less touch each other during rehearsals or the performance. In retrospective, these challenging circumstances add a valuable perspective to the work, practically, however,  I had to adapt and change my existing research quite suddenly. 

 

Therefore, I will distinguish between two phases of the project: Phase 1 describes my practical research and performance prior to the pandemic and determines the effects of touch and closer proximities in a performance on audience members and performers.

 

Phase 2 focusses on my practical research during and after the lockdown and explores other choreographic tools through which touch-like sensations can be remembered and re-visited in the absence of the possibility of close physical contact.

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How do participants experience touch during a performance?

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How has our relationship to touch changed during the pandemic?

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Can we have touch-like sensations in the absence of the possibility of close physical contact?

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How does a memory of touch effect us? 

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Can we remember and re-value touch?

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