A poetic essay about the beginning of a process to generate material and to notice how structures around us, and within us, can change. Through my early dance educations we spent little time analysing which senses we were using or moving with. When I started to make my own work I realized that depending on where I choose to begin, influences and shapes the whole piece.

How can working with one sense change the outcome of the material, choreography, dance or play? Is it possible to use an emotion to (re)do and (re)write past and present in the process of making performing art? Can this tilt the structures surrounding us?

I have tested different combinations and sequences that have emerged through Senses in choreography labs, one seminar and the exposition of re-hers. I have also created new material resting on the experience of the previous and in direct relation to one or more senses.

Do I begin from movement, emotion or a specific sense, in relation to the function of the body and its movement possibilities in different motives? Within different process-based methods my practice, theory and writing is intertwined in its structure and work. I have acquired an increased awareness around how my senses can work. They are more visible in my dancing and I hope it will deepen and challenge my process. I also hope that it will open up for new possibilities around how dance can be received, and how it can move. Its shapes and forms.