The Liquid Culture series has been completed and we are so thankful to all of you for your participation and support. Liquid Culture is an experiment for gloATL and for the people that participate in our five-week Research & Development Intensive Educational Opportunity (R&D).

R&D typically includes up to fifty dancers engaged in learning exercises for two weeks. There are six guest instructors as well as four artists from mediums other than dance that also lead classes. The first half of the R&D day is spent doing movement exercises and discussing the methods and philosophies that inform the practices of the guest instructors and artists. One hour of each day involves exploring public spaces and developing gestural exercises. It’s during the second part of the day that materials for the public performances are developed. The challenge is to then create four physical installations during a fourteen day period!

The entire project, then, is an experiment. What makes dancing with gloATL so unique is the emphasis on exploring how a body can move. While it may sound redundant, the most critical question for gloATL is, how can this particular body move? Lauri asks the dancers to explore their bodies, to experiment with the forms that they can hold and to relate to themselves as a dance laboratory.

The photos above are gloATL’s performance at the Lindbergh Station taken by the folks that came with cameras. If you click the photos, you’ll be sent to their author’s sites. Thanks for sharing!