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| Time of residency | August 2024 |
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| Contact info | info@myka.dk |
| Definition of artistic practice? | Choreographer and artistic director of the dance company MYKA, based in Denmark. |
| Title of the investigation at the residency | Artistic practices resonating with the RØSK manifest |
| Description of investigations and findings | Practicing the value of being in nature, stillness, rest, care (self care) and listening, with the aim to give space for reflection, new inspiration and creativity for upcoming works and ideas. I have spent time in studio and garden, moving, meditating, practicing yoga, danced, rested, listened and observed the sky, sun, clouds, grass, trees, slugs, insects, birds and rabbits. A shower of nature’s beauty and release to clear my head from the city noice, and the hectic tempo of my everyday life as an artist with three children in a big city. I have been all alone here for one week (missing my family and three lovely kids and husband) but also really enjoyed beeing here alone. It made it possible for me to deepen in to a state of being (rather than doing) and allowed peaceful time for a slow practice, zoomed in on the senses, the listening body and sharpened decisions from the intuition and the body. |
| What are you most curious about or invested in in your own practice? | Nature, art and family. |
| What questions did you bring to investigate and what questions are you leaving with? | Im interested to see how this residency will Ecco in further practice and work, and what difference care, listening and being - more than doing - can impact the journey from here. |
| Transformative, creative moments at the residency | Stillness and beauty in the peaceful surrounds around Birca, zooming in on details, senses and experience the magic of softness and slowness. And what power and potential that has. Something we tend to forget in the hectic everyday life, but we all and the planet need. Time to regenerate. |
| Keywords for the work done at the residency | Climate crisis, Ecologies, Family/kids, More than human, Nesting, Somatics |
| Research locations | BIRCA grounds, White Space (BIRCA), Wood at BIRCA |
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