MOVEMENT-MACHINE GROUP PRACTICE

Fernando Belfiore

Location: in a large garage, studio or open field to produce a motion machine.

The participants of the group alternate to propose a ‘movement’ that must be performed by the group until the end of the trajectory. The propositions of movement can vary: gestures, actions, sounds, singular repetitive movements, movement phrases, body tasks, fiction, text, body languages, social dances, interactions, embodying animals, being camp, games, emotions, dance practices and so on.

The rest of the group embodies the movement, trying to be accurate in as much detail as possible to read the movement proposal while perform it in your own way, allowing plurality to emerge.

While moving, the group must go from one end of the space to another. The trajectories can vary depending on the movement proposed in space. Once you reach the end of the space and the trajectory is completed the group runs through the sides of the space to the opposite side of the room, wich is the same point where the first proposal took place. When arriving, without pause, a new motion proposal takes place immediately by someone else.

The group should stick together. However, the people that follow do not have to be necessarily behind the current-proposer. They can choose the proximity and vary places in the cluster but do follow the proposed speed, which can vary.

Take care of the group and of your own body. If you are getting tired you can always propose a breathing movement. It might take some rounds till the group is truly warm. If a proposal is too risky, or pushing limits check and be honest with your boundaries and and mind group safety and consent.

The practice is a machine of sensations, materialities and visions – it’s a journey. Trance. Collective. Playfulness. Liberation. Movement-Machine is an exchange between bodies of languages, gestures, scores. It is a training, performance practice and an expansion of awareness, embodiments. The practice has many references such as the Body Weather work of Katerina Bakatsaki and the concept of Desiring- Machines by Deleuze. Movement-Machine is not just a matter of mere copying or line of production, but of modes of exchange, performing trans/formation, encountering and practicing moving as a group.

SUGGESTION: Dj collectively, or plan a playlist ahead, make use of a concrete, intense and diverse list of music, allow tripping to unfold and disrupt patterns or hegemonic conventions and automatism.

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