inhabit

The aim of this project is divided into two parts. The first project aims to investigate how the dancethat is already within us, our inhabited dance, can be used as an artistic practice for people withneurodiversities. The second project investigates how the feeling of dancing with others, can beexperienced in an independent practice.

The first project is a collaboration with Mosaikteatern, a daily activity centre for people withneurodiversities. With “neurodiversity as an ideal” as a common denominator, the methods consist ofpractical teaching, introspection and multimodal communication in the form of visual aid and signlanguage. The second project consists of independent studio work, using the methods scores anditerations. Throughout both projects, theories of teaching and choreography have been used ascatalysts for one another, bouncing off and feeding off of each other.

As a result of the project, methods and assignments for highlighting and elaborating one’s inhabiteddance have been created and used in practical teaching. These methods together with the theory ofcriptime have created a sustainable workingspace for people with neurodiversities. Furthermore, theproject has created scores and iterations of scores, through investigating how attention can be used inindependent studio practice.