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The 'unthought body' by CocoonDance company
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The “Unthought Body” by CocoonDance
Since 2016 CocoonDance went in search of the "unthought body”, which is not a result of a fixed concept or a narrative, but of pure physical movement research and working methods.
How can we get inspired in this search of the unthought body? Not from tradition, not from dance, but rather through an open exchange with other movement experts, like parkour athletes, breakers and krumpers, Thai boxers, rappers, folklore dancers, actors, voguers, baseball players etc. and as well as non-academically trained bodies.
These physical encounters with unfamiliar forms of movements and body images to the contemporary dance, its reflection and communication, have gained the group to an enhanced understanding of body and movement and the creation of new forms of embodiment that are able to change our idea of the body
In intensive research periods with experts in the respective fields, the company explores disciplines and movement techniques that are often alien to dance.
These forms are questioned by CocoonDance about its essence, deconstructed and transformed with regard to an independent new type of movement and physicality.
The objective thereby should not be to just imitate or mimic someone, but rather to embody and identify with the different movement material, its origins and intentions. This is followed by process-oriented phases of reflection, in which the learned techniques are applied in an open and unbiased way in improvisations and the qualities of the material are explored together. The artificial body that is generated in such a way allows to realize and to challenge traditional body images as well as the social construction of body and gender.
Our reference in a historical and philosophical point of view is the French author Laurence Louppe and her book “Poétique de la danse contemporaine” published in 2004. Therein she describes the dilemma of contemporary dance as a genre without any real, legitimizing heritage, but at the same time she is pointing out the huge freedom and potential of this issue, as a constantly rediscover contemporary dance and its idea of the body, to design again and again the body in a visionary way.
Since 2016 CocoonDance went in search of the "unthought body”, which is not a result of a fixed concept or a narrative, but of pure physical movement research and working methods.
How can we get inspired in this search of the unthought body? Not from tradition, not from dance, but rather through an open exchange with other movement experts, like parkour athletes, breakers and krumpers, Thai boxers, rappers, folklore dancers, actors, voguers, baseball players etc. and as well as non-academically trained bodies.
These physical encounters with unfamiliar forms of movements and body images to the contemporary dance, its reflection and communication, have gained the group to an enhanced understanding of body and movement and the creation of new forms of embodiment that are able to change our idea of the body
In intensive research periods with experts in the respective fields, the company explores disciplines and movement techniques that are often alien to dance.
These forms are questioned by CocoonDance about its essence, deconstructed and transformed with regard to an independent new type of movement and physicality.
The objective thereby should not be to just imitate or mimic someone, but rather to embody and identify with the different movement material, its origins and intentions. This is followed by process-oriented phases of reflection, in which the learned techniques are applied in an open and unbiased way in improvisations and the qualities of the material are explored together. The artificial body that is generated in such a way allows to realize and to challenge traditional body images as well as the social construction of body and gender.
Our reference in a historical and philosophical point of view is the French author Laurence Louppe and her book “Poétique de la danse contemporaine” published in 2004. Therein she describes the dilemma of contemporary dance as a genre without any real, legitimizing heritage, but at the same time she is pointing out the huge freedom and potential of this issue, as a constantly rediscover contemporary dance and its idea of the body, to design again and again the body in a visionary way.
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