HereS/Permeable Practices
HereS is a communal research methodology that uses improvisational movement as a means of examining how public spaces are already “choreographed” by many intersecting systems. In HereS practices, participants investigate overlaps, frictions, gaps, and interdependencies between public and private space choreographies from a variety of frames, and practice “thinking physically” about how we are shaped by and shaping the spaces we inhabit. The specific activities of HereS practices fluctuate according to the demands of the site being considered and the interests of the participants, but generally unfolds in four phases: tuning, noticing, moving, and reflecting. For more information about HereS practices, see HereS ZINE 1 or HereS ZINE 2.
*HereS is a collaboration with Katie Schetlick, Brandin Steffensen, and many co-participants.
Sample Scores
Tuning + Noticing: Consider the messages you are receiving from this site. How is it calling/commanding/inviting you? Asking you to be in physical/emotional/psychic relation to other bodies (present and absent)? How are these messages transmitted? Are the messages universally applicable or do they land differently on different bodies in the space? Try to imagine which messages you may not be hearing.
Moving: Stage a subtle intervention/micro-transgression of these choreographic imperatives. Take a solo. Play at the edge of disobedience (but take care!) What are the risks and benefits to obeying these messages? How do the risks and benefits change from person to person?
Reflecting: Move through what you have observed/experienced in order to share those insights with others. Mobilize aspects of a fictional alternative to what you have experienced.
Past Practices
2013 Brooklyn, NY (CLASSCLASSCLASS)
2013 Buffalo (NOW Practices)
2013 Lublin, Poland (International Dance Theatres Festival)
2014 Montréal, Canada (Hemispheric Institute Encuentro)
2015 New York, NY (New Museum)
2015 New York, NY (VergeNYC, The New School)
2015 New York, NY (Moving to Design, Parsons)
2016 Charlottesville, VA (University of Virginia)
2017 Columbus, OH (Dance Studies Association)
2019 Mexico City (Hemispheric Institute Encuentro)
2019 Evanston, IL (Dance Studies Association)
HereS (formerly “Relationscapes”) was made possible by a residency through CLASSCLASSCLASS in 2013.