Gestures of Offering
Gestures of offering is a creative movement research that explores the relationship between self and others; self and world. The word gestures suggests visible movements in space as well as invisible movements that become tangible through personal kinaesthetic experiences. The word offering evokes the question of what it might be possible to offer when we encounter others and the world.
The work is presented through a series of performance events, each lasting 20 minutes. The dance artist tunes into her embodied awareness with the audience and responds with movement gestures and dances, shining light on their relational nature.
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London. 2019.
Vienna. 2019. Photo: Chris Zvitkovits.
The dance artist’s notes and insights in the movement research of Gestures of Offering:
What is coming through me?
In the moment of offering, something opens up infinitely.
I am here and you are there within me.
My hand is rising, moved by the moving attention of your witnessing.
It turns to reveal to you, the boundary between you and me dissolving.
I offer to you but you are offering me what is here to offer.
We are moved by the invisible moving.
The space of awareness
Movements arise in the space of awareness,
in that awareness borns the gestures of offering.
They seem to emerge from nowhere and from everywhere.
Many in one
What we see depends on our ways of seeing.
In the moment of encounter,
I am experiencing you as you are experiencing me.
But we do not seem to see the same picture.
Multiple worlds are unfolded within a moment of seeing
In the encountering of many,
My world is next to yours.
A world is within another.
Performing or not
The space of per-forming arises from the space of non-doing.
If only we can rest in this open space that contains and holds all of our expressions.
If only this could be my ultimate offering.
What it points to
Through layers of shedding, letting go and undoing,
what is left is the simplicity of being and being with others.
That recognition of what is already there is an offering.
In that awareness,
we meet fully with others with openness,
perhaps,
that is the gesture of offering.