TRACING GESTURE PROJECT
>>> TAKE THE GESTURES OF LOVE AUDIENCE SURVEY
|
ONGOING 2023-2024
COMMUNITY PROJECT & RESEARCH: Open Invitation to participate in TRACING GESTURE "Tracing Gesture" is an ongoing project with an open-door policy. If you are curious about the creative process of choreography or are interested in the topics around gesture and gesturing, please come join my "Tracing gesture - Open Door" events between July 2023 and September 2024. Engage, watch, listen, give feedback, ask questions, create something. It's up to you. The next opportunity will be on September 9th at Cameron Art Museum. Further opportunities are made public soon and are available upon request. The format is ongoing and new participants/audiences can join pretty much any time. The project tackles new aspects with each rendition, so it is ok to jump in any time. You won't feel lost. Location and times will be announced on the event calendar. Fee: donations accepted |
PREMIERE OF "GESTURES OF LOVE"
SEPTEMBER 9th, 2023 Cameron Art Museum Wilmington, NC Performance, presentation, discussion 2-3:30pm Creative Community Workshop 3:30-4:30pm "Tracing Gesture: Gestures of Love" with Karola Luttringhaus Love Exhibition "Tracing Gesture" is a choreographic and academic project that investigates meaning in art, movement, and choreography. At 2pm, Karola performs a new dance piece entitled "Gestures of Love", a thought and movement experiment where gesture serves as the basis for dance, and dance is a form of language. Afterwards, gather in the Love exhibition to meet the artist and discuss her choreographic practice, how she creates movement, and her work with language, meaning, and storytelling. Karola states, " I examine how the body's movements speak to me and through me, and I am inviting an open discussion around how we assign and discover meaning in art in general, including the works of the current "Love" exhibit at CAM." Following the performance and discussion the artist will offer an opportunity to deepen the conversation around gesture, meaning, and dance by inviting guests to explore their own unique gestures of love by creating a collection of movement sentences that assemble into a "multi-facetted story of love". No experience or dance background necessary. All ages. All abilities. More information: I describe my choreographic work as psychological, philosophical, and socio-critical storytelling. I am motivated to create dance performances in order to incite conversation with and feedback from audiences around the topics explored in my pieces. I approach choreography and performance as kinaesthetic forms of communication and expression, manifested through movements that I see as a kind of 'amplified full-body gesturing' that is intrinsic to us and part of our physiology's complex intelligence. For Cameron Art Museum I am creating and performing a new dance piece entitled "Gestures of Love", with which I play through a thought and movement experiment where gesture serves as the basis for dance, and dance is a form of language. Within a 'meet-the-artist' format, I will be offering a view into my choreographic practice, how I create movement, how I work with language, meaning, and storytelling. I examine how the body's movements speak to me and through me, and I am inviting an open discussion around how we assign and discover meaning in art in general, including the works of the current "Love" exhibit at CAM. This presentation traverses the fields of art and film theory, philosophies of embodiment, and practice research considerations around notions of move-thinking within academic contexts. 90min. Following the performance and discussion I offer a more hands-on opportunity to deepen the conversation around gesture, meaning, and dance by inviting you to engage physically in order to discover each of our own unique gestures of love and take a stab at creating a collection of movement sentences that assemble into a multi-facetted story of love. No experience or dance background necessary. All ages. All abilities. 60-90min. |
TRACING GESTURE 2022
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Photocredits top left to bottom right. All choreography by Karola Luettringhaus;
- row 1 left: "The Weight of a Grain of Sand" dance Karola Luettringhaus, Shawn Worthington, Photo by Jeff Cravotta
- row 1 middle: "Adam-mah" dance Rachael Crawford, Bonny Dixon, Photo by Deborah Tripplett
- row 1 right: "Solstice Cycles" dance Karola Luettringhaus, Breanne Horne, Lena Rose Magee, musician Carl Kruger, Photo by Gray Pascal
- row 2 left: "Adam-mah" dance Rachael Crawford, Bonny , Photo by Deborah Tripplett
|
'TRACING GESTURE'
Concept/performance/scene design/Costume Design/movement creation by Karola Lüttringhaus More info coming soon. Part of this project is your feedback. Thank you for participating. |
