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Inclusive artistic work. Dance projects for every body, claiming cities as our stage. Visual & conceptual work by @bodyexpressiveleuven & @k_e_morton

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The first choreo of the 2027 Show ☄️ "Medea" , a greek mythological Femme Fatale character that although has been somewhat tragic, in a deeper look symbolized omnipotent radicalism: in power, in intelligence, and if necessary - violence. Although our 2027 show won't portray her direct story, but will withdraw from the radicalism and force she represents.

Dirty Daiana to MJ of course is like the number one choreography of mine that is the essence of it. I will remix Pure, Alien Superstar and Thick from Beyoncé Renaissance as another example of what it will be like. Medea is a radical character that is going to go on, as she wants it and whether or whether not this will be approved, validated, wanted. A female that isn't organizing herself around these at the first place.

We are days away from the Unholy & Alpha Shows but I could not hold it but get MEDEA out of my head. I feel like it is an answer to all the emotional experience of Dimensions, Unholy: a sequel. This year I also had so many epiphanies (that were more intense recently). I felt that after creative investigations that for me always go along what I learn in layers about the world, universe society and myself. ... I got to the bottom of it. And Medea will be that energy.

Also, a small personal insert. I met once a Belgian poet who would be having coffee in same place as me. He told me once about Medea (he thought I had something of it), I didn't do much of it then. But he would be telling me about her, so finally I looked it up and it stick to me. As many years later, observing the world and watching how the power dynamics I just internally arrived to the conclusion that she wasn't a tragic character. But the world was tragic. So it is important to embrace "her side to us" especially in us women. (Thank you Aldo).

Next year, I would also want to prioritize visuals over the performance (we will still perform) but I would want us to make a conceptual video (book with chapters) . Also for students to train a bit more one piece per direct outcome.

I promised myself to never force shows. To only do it if and until something "internally calling" comes with it. Here we are. More soon 🙂

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A "Dance for Her" @bodyexpressivevisuals

Still working on this - I feel it's such a big song with such an important, emotive message that I need to dance it outside somewhere....

I need to feel FREE dancing it. Even my garage feels too restrictive... but maybe that's the whole point... 🤷 I was definitely feeling the oppression described in the song and the subsequent desire to be free from it. As is the nature of " Expressive Chair Dance," you don't just dance to the music. You feel it, express it, live it, with every fibre of your being.

Anyway, until I find an outdoor spot where I have the space to stride off at the end, here's the indoor version.

Choreography by @k_e_morton
Part of @bodyexpressiveleuven @bodyexpressivevisuals Alpha Act

🎵 Labour - Paris Paloma

@chair_dance_express I wish I could be with you all performing it next month at Antwerp 💪🌟🙌 I'll be with you in spirit 💫✊️

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This year we will present UNHOLY ACT, ALPHA ACT and LABOUR "Dance for her" both as a part of Alpha and a separate creation. The team of nearly 60 people of all ages, professions, with and without dance experience will come together to live the stories that brought our Acts to existence while connecting to audience, architecture and themselves. Come to watch us, or join us 🎨

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DANCE FOR HER | Rehersal of 10.10 with new participants and some people of the old crew. 🔥
Thank you everyone for attention and your energy.

Next rehearsal 21.10 Wednesday 18.30 You can join us anytime. The choreography to LABOUR of Paloma Paris (by @k_e_morton) will be expressed (not sure if 'performed' is a right word):

◽️8th November at the Antwerp Central Station event.
◽️7th March Leuven (location tbc)
◽️Summer 27 and Autumn 27

DM us if you're interested

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Yesterday's rehearsal for DANCE FOR HER project (Part of the Alpha Act). New participants joined us this time and we hope to meet more of you in the future. ☄️

DANCE FOR HER is a visual project that is both performance, statement, expression and lived experience of a collective release of rage.

We plan to do a several visuals this and next year and all women are welcome to join us. The attendance is flexible and inclusive (lots of training days to chose from, Zoom recordings and Tutorials are available.)

We are also happy to announce that our sisters house in Madrid @recreo__express is joining the project simultaneously ☄️

Song: @parispaloma
Choreography & concept: @k_e_morton

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@bodyexpressivevisuals
@chair_dance_express

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A little media piece on what we did so far with @bodyexpressiveleuven on the area of visual dance in the Polish National TV this time with English subtitles 😁 (especially for my students, I tried to make subtitles easier to read but its hard haha ). Thank you to Telexpress (Teleplotki) for a very lovely feature, crafted with a clear understanding of our vision.

🌸THE IDEA 🌸

The idea of collective expression that aims to re-narrate a communication with public sphere, re-define the bounderies, societal & personal limits by just becoming a living, breathing evidence of a possibility. All that as we are having fun, learning and creating (all ages, genders, with or without experience in dance). A rare moment when public space can feel safe for being this exposed, a rare moment when we can co-exist in this reality as a collective with our emotions on the sleeve. But everything starts from rare moments until they become a norm.

🌸 WARSAW 🌸 @body_expressive_warsaw
On occasions when I am in Warsaw I decided to organise classes there too. It will come soon with my next visit. And this small TV piece is also an announcement of that. Pawel, the journalist brought me to a wonderful location to conduct the interview and definitely he knew what he was doing 😀

🌸 CONTEXT 🌸

The footages are from our @bodyexpressivevisials acts that we did so far (new chapters is coming ✨️) and you can find exact shows and creators credits in the VISUAL DANCE link in bio.

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Such a haunting song and beautiful Choreography by my instructor @k_e_morton @chair_dance_express.

A piece from their "Blue frequency" - part of their Alpha @bodyexpressivevisuals show. I didn't take part in this section of the show, but I wanted to learn it as it's so beautiful ✨️

I intentionally used a slightly blurry filter as I think it adds to the dreamy feel of the piece. 🤔 What do you think?

🎶 Widow's Peak - Odetta Hartman
Choreo by @k_e_morton

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A little part of a soft, final song after the sequence of powerful, impactful tracks that reflect on our journey between judgement and identity in our upcoming Unholy Show. "So. what can I say?" 'You can't give me what is mine anyway."
We will perform the Unholy Show at the DANSVLOER Festival in the Leuven theater by the end of October and at the Antwerp Central Station on the November 8th. @bodyexpressivevisuals

Song: Half the world away, Aurora
Choreography: @k_e_morton
Filming @lucas.dnce

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DANCE VISUAL | I asked girls to dedicate this choreography to someone (can be just internally). 《Dance for her.》 As if you wanted to warn her, but had to do it with a dance instead of words. For your grandma, for your mother, for your daughter, for your sister or a friend or to yourself that didn't know better at the time. Who ever is around you that was caught in that pattern or could have been. The song "Labour" of @parispaloma is a liberating cry of generations of women thaught to sacrifice themselves for others. Sacrifice not in a just, healthy way but complete, total way, where they stopped existing.

Would you like to join us?

Choreography & concept @k_e_morton

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝑳𝑷𝑯𝑨 𝑨𝑪𝑻 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑬𝒙𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔
@bodyexpressivevisuals

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"Sensual feeling. Oops she brought down the celling." ...The solar eclipse evening was perfect for our witch craft. This little choreography enters our ALPHA ACT (𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴s - @bodyexpressivevisuals ). Its easy and simple and is meant to translate the witchery of womenhood. An intuitive hearing of the whispers of the Universe, connection with the worlds chemistry, navigation of energy. Sensual feeling. Oops she brought down the celling.

Alpha Dancers Kaye, @lien_chde, @agataciborowska
Choreography & concept @k_e_morton
Song: Buzzin Dua Saleh

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A "Take me to Church" choreography danced with Dance Visual best students ever. ❤️ We are almost ready for the upcoming Unholy Act at the Antwerp Central Station on November 8th. Unholy reflects on how we all look for identity and belonging in the emotionaly predatory world, restoring our innocence that is shadowed by forces of society and our own nature.
" In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene
Only then I am human
Only then I am clean"

Song "Take Me to Church" @hozier
Choreography @k_e_morton

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My favourite song of all time. Finally finding its ending in our Dance Visual act: 𝗨𝗡𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗬 ( 8𝒕𝒉 𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓, 𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝑪𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 ). Or maybe it's the other way around. Maybe the UNHOLY show was born because of the feeling this song brings.

One may ask what "a favourite song" really means. It's not necessarily something you want to listen to over and over. It's a place you return to when you need a break from humanity. A place to cry over it.

UNHOLY is probably somewhat a continuation of our previous acts: ALPHA, META, and FREQUENCY. Whether it is their conclusion, I don't know.

If you live long enough, you begin to notice that in the world we inhabit, when it comes to judgment, we are all both victims and predators.

When we say "society" does something, or "the public" does something, how easy, or convenient, it is to forget that we are subject to it... and we are it.

Do we seek liberation, or do we seek control and power?

What is pure to us is evil to someone else. What is free to us is an oppression in hands of others.

Human nature.

The instincts that override the mind.

What we desire, even though we wish we didn't.

What we think, even though we would like to do better.

As we battle, confronting the pressure of the outside world while facing the weaknesses within ourselves. And to that, of course, the system that is uneven to how this dynamic feels to different groups.

𝗨𝗡𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗬. 𝗔 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳

The choreography has finally reached a shape that feels complete. We had already started training it with our students, but it still needed a few more touches.

@hozier. TAKE ME TO CHURCH
@bodyexpressivevisuals 🌸

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