Using eco-somatic practices, the toolbox of Tamalpa (Anna Halprin) and the principles of permaculture to develop movement scores, they will focus during the residence in Vitlycke on how to dialogue with those who are absent in ourlives.
In particular, we will explore the legacy of Ernesto Oeschger, who has been a friend and mentor of Gregory Stauffer:
`What is the origin of art? This question has inspired my friend, the sculptor and goldsmith Ernesto Oeschger, since his childhood. More precisely, since he saw reproductions of paintings from the Chauvet Cave in a bookshop window in Basel, which transported him on a journey through time to the origins of creative expression.

As a child, Ernesto did not have the money to buy the book and made his life. As an adult he visited archaeological sites around the world teaching himself archaeology. We met when he was about seventy years old in the village of Intragna. He showed me the rubbings of rock carvings he was making, some of which were over 2 metres by 1.5 metres in size. I became his assistant for the conservation and eventual transfer of these works to the Archaeological Museum of Aosta.

In the winter of 2021, I conducted an interview with Ernesto to record the stories I had heard during so many evenings spent together: his travels, his hypotheses about life and unconsciousness and his passion for the origins of art, the need to communicate and connect worlds. Shortly afterwards, Ernesto died at the age of ninety, and his ashes were scattered in the Meleza River.
The week-long residency at the Vitlycke Museum will be an opportunity to listen
to his audio recordings again, visit the rock carving site with the curators, and transpose the weaving of these memories into a somatic and performative medium.`

At the end of the residence, we propose to organize a public event, sharing our
practices in a performative way. If we do this on Sunday June 14, the participants
of the workshop could already be there and participate in this.

Bio
Guy Cools is a Belgian dance dramaturg. He worked amongst others with Sidi Larbi
Cherkaoui (BE), Danièle Desnoyers (CA), Christopher House (CAN), Akram Khan (UK),
Andrea Nann (CAN) (www.guycools.com). With the Canadian choreographer, Lin
Snelling,
he developed an improvised performance practice Rewriting Distance
(www.rewritingdistance.com). His most recent publications include In-between Dance
Cultures: on the migratory artistic identity of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Akram Khan
(2015);
Imaginative Bodies, dialogues in performance practices (2016); and Performing
Mourning.
Laments in Contemporary Art (2021). From December 2022, he is full time professor in
the
dance department of UQAM, Montréal.