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GUS Global Underscore

lør. 22. juni

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The Underscore is a long-form dance improvisation structure created by Nancy Stark Smith. It incorporates Contact Improvisation into the broader arena of improvisational dance practice. Global Underscore centers around a yearly event in which the Underscore is practiced by people all over the world.

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GUS Global Underscore
GUS Global Underscore

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22. juni 2024, 16:00 – 20:00

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About the event

The Underscore, a long-form dance improvisation structure created by Nancy Stark Smith, incorporates Contact Improvisation (CI) into the broader arena of improvisational dance practice. Global Underscore (GUS) centers around a yearly event in which the Underscore is practiced simultaneously for a 4-hour period by people all over the world near the summer solstice (northern hemisphere).

70+ sites participate in GUS.

The Underscore, which has been evolving since 1990, is a vehicle for incorporating Contact Improvisation (CI) into the broader arena of improvisational dance practice; developing greater ease dancing in spherical space—alone and with others; and for integrating kinesthetic and compositional concerns while improvising. It allows for a full spectrum of energetic and physical expressions, embodying a range of forms and changing states. Its practice is familiar yet unpredictable.

The practice progresses through a broad range of dynamic states, including long periods of very small, private, and quiet internal activity and other times…

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