FOCUS

OUR MOVEMENT is a transitional programme of movement and laboratory-based exploration for recent graduates and vocational art students. It offers a safe and dynamic space for participants to move beyond conventional studio practices and step outside their comfort zones. Through collective, task-based research, the programme introduces frameworks for creative inquiry grounded in both theory and physical experimentation.

OUTCOME

OUR MOVEMENT unfolded over two intensive sessions—January and June—combining theoretical exploration with embodied research.

Across both phases, OUR MOVEMENT offered a space where theory met sensation, and practice became a method of inquiry. Participants learned to frame their work not only as artistic expression but as research grounded in process, presence, and critical reflection.

What emerged was not a finished piece, but an evolving understanding of how bodies can hold questions and can become sites of meaning.

Iskra is a choreographer-educator by education and a multidisciplinary artist by vocation with 15 years of experience in contemporary (performing) art. Her recent research revolves around the notion of (inner) UTOPIA as a form of resistance and resilience, through the prism of transformative possibility rooted in the present, exploring pathways for collective healing and justice.

Her practice focuses on the liminal to understand what happens in the space of ‘in-betweenness’, through the practice of slowing down, being present, inviting and allowing different ways of being and listening.

Read more about her work: https://isanova.myportfolio.com/

JANUARY 

Grounding: Solo Practice & Theoretical Tools

The first phase focused on building a shared theoretical and compositional foundation. Participants explored:

• the principles of solo creation

• compositional awareness in improvisation

• the role of intuition, repetition, and form

• movement as a personal language and political act

• the body as archive and site of resistance

Work was structured around both individual research and group exchange, allowing participants to engage with the mechanics of solo-making while reflecting on broader conceptual frameworks.

Through readings, discussion, and guided tasks, the group engaged with questions of authorship, presence, and the potential of the moving body to hold multiple meanings.

JUNE 

Expansion: Collective Exploration Through Voice, Sigh, and Gesture

The second phase shifted from the individual to the collective—deepening physical practice through experimental approaches to voice, breath, and non-verbal expression. Participants explored sighing and screaming as gestures of protest, pleasure, ambiguity, and speculative presence.

Key areas of exploration included:

• voice and breath as choreographic materials

• task-based improvisation as research

• movement as a tool for disruption and speculation

• the transformation of vocal expression from eruption to silence

Together, the group investigated how movement and voice intersect—not just in performance, but as ways of thinking, resisting, and relating.