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With the coordination of the Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff

directed by James Tyson,
in association with:
Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporaines (France)

Movement a sequence of gestures is the language in which the body expresses itself.
Unique gestures free from external conditioning, constantly hovering over the fluctuating borderline between the real physical gesture and the choreographic gesture; creating, inventing, denying and then reconstructing them, simply observing them Ð that is the aim of this research on the interactions between the dancing body and space, real and virtual, to identify a fil rouge between the instinctiveness and naturalness of the human gesture and the codes imposed by digital technologies.

Workshop activities will examine the influence that outside space Ð meaning both the urban dimension and the virtual world Ð has on gestural heritage common to the art form of dancing.
Through workshops, work in progress, performances and the production of new shows, the research sets out to analyse the coincidences and contrasts in body gestures by means of the most recent results of contemporary European dance.

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