Our sense of touch is interwoven with desire, fear, disgust, comfort, pleasure, danger. Tactility is by definition a complex phenomenon, defining our relations with each other and the world \u2013 but so often going unexamined. Because it\u2019s so loaded with meaning, touch requires careful negotiation. And because everyone comes with their own history of touch \u2013 which can include training, practice, memory, and trauma \u2013 the \u2018before\u2019 of touch needs to be always lived afresh, carefully considered and reconsidered with each new encounter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a show consisting of four different parts, three dancers (Helen D\u2019Haenens, Raphael Philipe Damasceno Ferreira de Moura, Christine Sollie) & Vera Tussing invite the audience to explore who we are in movement, in dance, in this moment before touch? What memories of past touches do we carry within us? What possible touches precede any immediate touch? Does touch only happen when we notice it \u2013 when we actively reach for the other\u2019s hand? What touches do we never even notice at all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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