handled and gone
April 25 (premiere) MARC Knislinge Folkets Hus
April 26 Stockholm Culture Night at ccap Stockholm
June 14 Maison de la Danse #6 Malmö
aware of her narrow future, every move carefully accounted, she swindles an arc and renders a reverb
standing at the point of divergence of a circle in a square, trapped in delayed escalation, dancing falls into the pit of a hand
where she lingers the unmentionable and speculates a fine-print orbit
April 25 (premiere) during the inauguration of MARC in Knislinge Folkets Hus
The inauguration starts 17.00
April 26 Stockholm Culture Night at ccap körsbärsvägen 9 in Stockholm
18.00 – 24.00 durational film-screening
19.00 – 21.00 Cristina is dancing
14 juni Maison de la Danse Festsalen, Ungdomens Hus, Norra Skolgatan 10 in Malmö
handled and gone is performed 7pm
by and with Cristina Caprioli
handled and gone abandons herself to the faintest timbre of dancing, in a clear stillness with no expectations. In lack of a predetermined prospect, relieved from the promise of improvement, dancing remains in place and moves with no restraint.
Quiet in the spot, moving at raging speed, she shifts tonality, measures and upbeat, lingers a driveway, becomes a modulation in low-intensive pulse. Dancing ceases to perform herself as primary matter, to instead act as connective tissue between substance and perception. A third condition emerges. We see. And in step with the frugal dancing, we sense* all the thread-thin shifts that make this solo so incredibly sparse and at the same time so saturated. We step over a sensory threshold**.
In contrast to the current hysterical oh-so-static pursuit of increased growth with rapidly consumed utility value, this solo proclaims a radical tress-pass. For the dance, through the dancing. In the singular common.
handled and gone has been around several years as a line of thought in several previous choreographies
and in a short order of words named gone
gone
when falling, you stretch out your hand and catch the falling onto the bottom of the fall
in the groundless abyss the helpless is falling into there is no flatness to counter the falling by
yet the startled perplexed finds immediate mitigation to the crash in the hand itself
in the pit the hand bends itself into as to comprehend that which otherwise would rush out of sight
the perplexed that is falling into the pit of her hand is a quiet image, not the least inappropriate, rather a resourceful one
one that is ready, ready to catch the sight of the groundlessness as it falls into the pitfall of her hand
this onehanded dance claims to be falling into the smallest nook of language where the speechless turns into many
bold and invincible, caught by and cared for in the narrow pit of your hand
cc 2020
*A sensation is the reaction of a sense organ to a stimulus. Sensation is the conversion of the nerve impulses formed at the end of signal transduction (a cascade of chemical reactions in a sense cell that begins with the activation of a receptor) into neural signals that can be interpreted by the brain. This interpretation is called perception, and in psychology sensation is therefore not the same thing as perception, even if the concepts are often used synonymously in common language. It is very difficult (if even possible) to experience a pure sensation, the brain is quick to interpret the direction and then the sensation becomes perception.
**The sensation diminishes with repeated or long-term exposure to the same stimulus (so-called habituation or adaptation). When attention to the sensation is low or absent, that is, when impressions are registered in the unconscious, the impression is called subliminal perception. The level at which stimuli are too weak to be perceived is called sensory thresholds.