Editorial 2da en Papel // summer_22

Editorial 2da en papel will present its new book Improvisation in dance: translations and distortions.

This book full of voices and approaches, surrounds the question of the development of the technical in the field of improvisation in dance. The book brings together, among current productions, a series of historical texts such as Drafting interior techniques by Paxton, where he comments on a key search for the development of contact improvisation as a specific exploration of movement between two or more bodies, times that are accompanied by a visit , a workshop and a conference in Argentina in 1999. In direct dialogue with the discoveries that occur during the practices, Nancy Stark Smith comments how her students noticed that there were phases of her classes that she had not yet systematized and that later formed the material for writing the Underscore. Findings appear between those who coordinate practices and those who participate, looks that highlight images and ways of naming, this book reminds us that we are always working together.

As the cover announces, all this has been put together from an inverted position, or rather, from the bottom of the world... A school without teachers, teachers without a school, illegal trafficking of materials and wild translations that distort practices in the most creative sense of both gestures: translate and distort. Each of the voices brings, reserves and circulates a fragment of the ways in which we investigate improvisation in dance and, also, our multiple relationships as colleagues.

In short, this book is a good tool to approach the problem of technique and improvisation, as long as it reminds us that it is not about doing anything without thinking and/or surrendering to a free flow of a being in its full being… Maybe that's not what life is about.

Between images, sensations, evocations, somatic studies and proprioceptive listening, improvisation techniques are woven or, rather, ways of thinking about the technical aspects of improvisation in dance.

Texts by: Caterina daniela mora jara - Laura Barceló - Andrea Fernandez - Nancy Stark Smith - Steve Paxton- Gabriela Morales - Mariela Singer - Marcela Cejas-Calfuqueo - Cristina Turdo - Keith Hennessy - Lisa Nelson - Paula Zacharías Carmen Pereiro Numer - Hubert Godard - Suely Rolnik - Eugenia Estevez - Fabiana Capriotti - Julyen Hamilton - Fatima Sastre

Compilers: Marie Bardet, Marina Tampini and Josefina Zuain.