New & Noteworthy December Events   

 

Modes of Capture offered again in Durham, NC

Human Origami co-creators Glenna Batson & Susan Sentler offered Somatic Encounters on Both Sides of the Lens at the Modes of Capture Symposium at the University of Limerick, Ireland (Trailer below).

 

Glenna will teach this workshop again on December 4th at the American Dance Festival Community Studios in Durham.  Register

 

 

 

Human Origami Collaborations in Singapore

 

Maybe you’ve come across the word toile, meaning ‘canvas.’ A word particularly common among fashion designers, the toile is a kind of test garment – a bleached fabric that is cut out as a prototype, a sample garment –  or ‘sketch’ – that previews the final garment.

 

In Human Origami, our improvisational movements are sketches, a palimpsest, appearing, disappearing, and reappearing, as the exploring mover lays down a repeatable template. This sk-etch is a way of exploring movement in its purest form – unembellished, unedited, and free of the effort of achieving perfect performance.  Similarly, a toile in fashion serves as a way for the viewer to see the general mock-up or outline of a garment, free of color, print, trims, or other features that might otherwise distract from apprehending the overall Gestalt of the design in its most raw form – a stunning example of aesthetic minimalism – matter and/as essence.

 

When fashion toiles mix with creative movement, a range of new dynamics emerge, giving rise to a new, minimalist expression. Human Origami co-creator Susan Sentler recently collaborated with fashion faculty at LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore on this topic of minimalism through the folding of fabric toiles, paper, and dancing bodies.Here are the toiles in preparation and in action, a mutually inspired collaboration where both cutter and mover join in a reductionist dance.

 

Human Origami is

 

An evolving STEAM network

STEAM stands for scientists, technology experts, engineers, artists and mathematicians – a trans-disciplinary network whose collaborations give rise to new art forms and scientific insights. Human Origami invites collaborations around the science and art of folding, offering new ways of envisioning and understanding the underlying aesthetic of life’s processes. Performing artists partner with bioengineers to fashion designers. The result? A new perspective on the aesthetics and logistics of human organization.

 

An embodied process of body-mind transformation.  

Human Origami movement workshops explore how the body folds and unfolds in response to an enriched sensory environment of movement, music, language and multi-media that engage body, mind and ear – a liminal experience that transforms consciousness and catalyzes creativity in movement expression.

 

A window into human development –

Folding is the basic movement repertoire and an archive etched into the history of human development.  Bio-Origami is how we got here, a continuum throughout the lifespan. Folding is how the embryo builds a body without a brain – a brilliance that speaks to the fundamentals of movement dynamics in the ecosystem of life.

GALLERY  – A glimpse of our past events!


 


Pleated Matter

Pleated Matter



Partnering Paper

Partnering Paper



Bio-Origami

Bio-Origami



Folded Sound

Folded Sound



Nested Habitats