Close Across

Close Across was an experiment in access, flexibility and care, enacting a disability-informed, covid-safe method of dancemaking and imagining a future where disabled knowledges guide the practice of creating dance. We engaged in a movement generation practice that used improvisational scores to reflect on the physical experience of receiving and giving care across various distances. The movement began as solos, was transformed into duets performed in close proximity with our partners and was finally split apart to be performed as a distant duet. The text acts as audio description for the movement of our partners, but also documents our own felt experience of moving with our partners across these different distances. Audiences are encouraged to move around the space, curating their own experience of the movement, text and sound, reflecting on how distance and closeness to the performers influence their own physical, sonic and emotional experience of the work.