touch score #1 is part of my current research on 'choreographing touch'. Feel free to check out more on www.veratussing.com.

There will be a touch score #2 - message me if interested and I will keep you updated. 

Thank you to Mike Picknett for the sound editing, Julia Rubies Subiros for joining the research on the score building and Filip Mattens for his text: The sense of Touch: From Tactility to Tactile Probing, as well as Charlotte V. & Dame T for the feedback.

Contact: veratussing@gmail.com

touch score #1

touch score #2  - the sum of your touches

This is a guided journey – beginning from a small object, around the size of your hand, then expanding to the space and presences that surround you in your home. 

To approach your home through touch, I will give you a brief introduction to two ways of focusing on touch. We’ll ask what possibilities different ways of sensing hold for us when relating to our surroundings, to each other, and in our own lived embodied experience.

This touch score is...

for one person, or more.

To go on this journey, you’ll need…

a sound-playing device (e.g. a phone or other device that allows you to move freely) + headphones 
an object that fits easily into the palm of your hand, or otherwise easily held.
a place to sit.
a space that surrounds you (your home) that you can move through.

Duration: 25 minutes


We will trace and retrace moments of grasping, clutching, manipulating with our hands, and eventually grow into moving, tracing and touching through our whole body. 

Maybe through touch we can experience a familiar place in a new way. Keep in mind, touch has never left you - it’s always been there, and your body holds a record of it.

Let’s call that record to presence. Let it unravel. 


                   d-_-b             ԅ(¯﹃¯ԅ)             d-_-b             ԅ(¯﹃¯ԅ)             d-_-b


Please, put on your headphones and press play:





Notes: 

This recording involves many direct and consciously picked references such as Tim Ingold's book ‘Lines’, a text by Filip Mattens: The sense of Touch: From Tactility to Tactile Probing from 2016, my Feldenkreis teacher Wendy Kann’s approach to teaching that is very present these days, but also many other voices, such as one of my long term collaborators, performers, teacher and occasional co-choreographer Ben McEwen, JS Rafaeli, Esse Vanderbruggen / (Both, Two), Anna Muchin, Anna Goette and many more.

Voice/research/writing: Vera Tussing 
Silences: carefully provided by my neighbours here in 1070 Anderlecht, Bruxelles (BE)
Foley: Dame Thiam & Vera Tussing & creation Sun, Sun, Sun (2013) for Passerelle, Kortrijk (BE) 
Sound: Sculpture Park by Michael Picknett for Both, Two (2017)
Sound editing support: Michael Picknett 
Images editing support: Hiros

Links:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant

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Bio: 
Vera Tussings creative processes, performances and installations are driven by her interests in dance, movement, perception, the senses, embodied experience, multisensorial spectatorship, collectivity and consent. Her most recent series of work, the Tactile Cycle, is formed of stage creations, sculptures and movement-sound installations focussed around the creation of unique, inter-personal encounters between audience and performer. She graduated from London Contemporary Dance School, and has worked as a dancer, director and creator throughout the UK, Belgium and across Europe.

www.veratussing.com

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