Vera Tussing - Research 2025 - ‘Extensions’

Two movement scores that evolve around shapeshifting dialogues, one happening within the dancer, the other happening in a movement installation in space. What are these shapes ? Are they concepts, ideas that have shaped us, limitations, belief systems …

There’s the representation of the shape, but there’s also the shape. You’re not making a circle, you’re in the circle, moving on the circle, transforming the circle, holding the circle in a place of transformation. Always a dialogue of multiple shapes moving.

The whole idea of showing movement as emerging out of multiple dynamics has to do with undoing an ideological assumption: that movement emerges from a unified self. Instead, movement is the result of a chaotic process of encounter, between times, spaces, discourses, laws, passports, and borders.

TEAM / CREDITS

While most of the research is conducted by myself alone, I am joined on accusation by a team of collaborators.

Financial support: Research Grant Vlaamse Gemeenschap.

Thank you CENTQUATRE-PARIS residency, Nella Malet, Camille Paycha, Jacopo Buccino, Seb Kann, JS Rafaeli

Thank you Mahler-LeWitt Studio Residency to JS Rafaeli, Seb Kann (dramaturgy) and Monika Khot (sound) for joining me at distance for this residency in Spoleto. Thank you to Mahler & LeWitt Studios for hosting me in the town of Spoleto. Thank you to Guy Robbertson and Tommaso Faraci for their guidance and support in Spoleto.

Thank you to my fellow residents, Rebecca McGrew, Joshua Leonand Daniela Ruiz Moreno, Rebecca McGrew and the Shock Forest Group.

Production: Hiros / Michel Robberechts Sparkling Solutions

Vera Tussing's 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. In 2025 she will mainly focus on research. She graduated from London Contemporary Dance School, and has worked as a dancer, director and researcher throughout Belgium, the UK and across Europe.