Touch Tissue Texture

The dance performance Touch Tissue Texture deals with "meeting". The two authors open up the meeting as a space that co-creates and needs external space, but nevertheless also touches and changes internal spaces. It is a kind of movement, a state of deep mutual sensory-mental-motor concentration, responding to all the present elements and layers of materiality, such as texture, skin, air, ground, movement, sound, thoughts. Just as the membrane envelops and defines the most basic structure of the cell, it also teaches us about the multidirectionality of our attention. Visitors are invited into this ever-changing structure of "membranes" - spaces of response, boundaries and at the same time doors through which we turn towards the perceived world and the other.

Dance performance in the form of installation is a 45-minute framework where visitors can dedicate their time to the multifaceted, immersive space, that combines different spheres of "touch": visual/haptic, acoustic/written, intangible, perceived/felt, material/transitory, intimate/communal.

"Touch" (in the broadest sense) therefore exists as a bridge through which the coordination of two or more bodies takes place. It is not a purposeful univocal coordination with a tendency towards similarity, but a qualitative coordination of living, diverse bodies, spaces. Meetings and dialogues (stage moments) that create these spaces and are conditioned by touch (not only in the literal sense, but touch is also contact, tact, desire for contact), bring with them desires, comings and goings, associations, memories and reaching for the unknown.