The Agency of Touch

Duration 20′
Language no text

Calendar

Thursday 12/11/2015 from 11:00 to 11:20
Thursday 12/11/2015 from 11:40 to 12:00
Thursday 12/11/2015 from 12:20 to 12:40
Thursday 12/11/2015 from 13:00 to 13:20
Friday 13/11/2015 from 11:00 to 11:20
Friday 13/11/2015 from 11:40 to 12:00
Friday 13/11/2015 from 12:20 to 12:40
Friday 13/11/2015 from 14:00 to 14:20
Friday 13/11/2015 from 14:40 to 15:00
Friday 13/11/2015 from 15:20 to 15:40
Friday 13/11/2015 from 16:00 to 16:20
Friday 13/11/2015 from 16:40 to 17:00
Friday 13/11/2015 from 17:20 to 17:40
Friday 13/11/2015 from 18:00 to 18:20
Saturday 14/11/2015 from 11:00 to 11:20
Saturday 14/11/2015 from 11:40 to 12:00
Saturday 14/11/2015 from 12:20 to 12:40
Saturday 14/11/2015 from 14:00 to 14:20
Saturday 14/11/2015 from 14:40 to 15:00
Saturday 14/11/2015 from 15:20 to 15:40
Saturday 14/11/2015 from 16:00 to 16:20
Saturday 14/11/2015 from 16:40 to 17:00
Saturday 14/11/2015 from 17:20 to 17:40
Saturday 14/11/2015 from 18:00 to 18:20

The Agency of Touch is a social intervention utilising touch, bodily/sensorial awareness and connectivity as a social-recreational vehicle for corporeal communication and research within different social, cultural, economic contexts. The practice consists of one-on-one touch-based sessions. This experience produces drawing and verbal feedback and interpretation from the participants. The Agency of Touch identifies itself as a Body and a physical-contact Space, a somatic and hands-on Space, where I will be facilitating pleasurable, soothing touch experiences as a way of putting people in a close dialogue with the body and the sensorial, emotional, energetic, transcendental, care giving and receiving potential. In an alienated and sensorially deprived context caused by a virtual-technology era, by social inequalities and other factors, this practice privileges touch, haptic, physical experiences over the visual experience dominating the contemporary technologised society.

by: Mădălina Dan
producer: Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin, project supported by HZT Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin”

cargocollective.com/theAgencyofTouch

About the artists

Mădălina Dan is a nominee for the National Dance Centre Bucharest Awards in 2015. She initiated and produced numerous performances, debates and dance workshops. She is a constant presence on the Romanian dance scene and one of the most important artists of a new generation of dancers and choreographers. The artist was awarded for her contribution in dance and performance brought through workshops, creation labs and mentoring projects.