Articulating Conflict– Contemplations & Detours
Karola Lüttringhaus
This performance/talk investigates concepts of movement, language, and logic to challenge our thinking about thinking, and to broaden and refine our definition of 'the body'.

What I present is a personal response, a personal reflection based on my position at this point in time. ​

As a teacher of movement with an approach that begins with listening, with the view of the human body's anatomy and physiology, as a thinker and conceiver of choreography and performances, I wonder about the process of thinking, about moving, about creativity. 
All three have one word in common: articulating.
I am layering video projection, movement and speaking to offer different modes of communication and to investigate if different aspects are communicated through different ways of thinking/embodying.

(Special Thanks to Lynette Hunter for guidance and encouragement)
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German performer, choreographer, educator, organizer and designer Karola Lüttringhaus creates interdisciplinary expressions in dance, scenic design, visual art, sound, and film. Her educational background includes a BFA in Choreography/Modern Dance (University of North Carolina School of the Arts) and an  MA in Scenic Design/Scenography (Technische Universität Berlin). Karolaluettringhaus.com  
Abstract: The complex inquiry into what thinking actually is lies at the center of this performance/presentation. What do we constitute as thinking and what as doing? To what degree are these concepts still separable, treated as separate and enforced as such, and what does that mean for the body/mind balance in dance, in our exchange with audiences, in life? Language seems insufficient, still drawing from terminology created centuries ago where body and mind were fighting one other. We are struggling to catch up with new concepts about the mind/body continuum. Within a multi-layered presentation that incorporates movement and video projection against a simple background, Lüttringhaus retraces the development of our thinking and concludes with an inquiry into 4-dimensional 'thinking/bodying' and the various layers of complexity within our understanding of the body and its modes of communication.
A video from the performance will be posted here.