Scene
~ Consequences of Research
Sometimes, during the research, there is a wish to give in to what occurs. By framing it, it takes on the form of a ritual, a happening, a performance. At times, these eventualities have an audience, at other times they don’t. They are repeated or they happen only once.
CONVERSATIONS WITH THE BODY
Opening up intellectual and artistic research to public sharing is one of the ways of thinking about the scene that minìsae cherishes the most. What is presented, is not a finished form but rather an opening to a research that continues and becomes richer through the praxis of encounter. Conversations with the Body is a series of performative encounters and debates with researchers who place the phenomena of body and movement at the center of their work.
(1) Gilad Ben Ari, March 8, 2023
How do we answer the questions asked by our bodies? What role do we entrust to the sensitive and embodied experience? How can the body become the main vehicle of an artistic and a human journey? In Ben Ari's practice, the experience of the living body, usually neglected by most or even forgotten, is the very essence of the research: the "animal" dimension of the human, the primal adherence to the senses and perceptions, to the movement that emerges spontaneously, are all that he asks us to pay attention to, all that really exists. How much effort, how much time, how much listening can we offer to our bodies that are none other than us?
Gilad Ben Ari is a performer and dancer. For more than twenty years he has been dancing professionally, first in Tel Aviv in the Batsheva Ensemble, then in Brussels where he studied dance and choreography at P.A.R.T.S. and finally in Amsterdam, where he received a Master's degree at Das Choreography. In 2015 he embarked on a 4000 km journey on foot, from Turkey to the Netherlands, which was followed by the decision to move away from institutional contexts to favor his personal research on the mechanics of attention. For the last ten years he has developed his own body practice, which does not follow but is influenced by regularly attending 10 days vipassana courses as taught by S.N. Guenka.