Tangible Scores – Connecting with what we can touch

Tangible Scores is an antidote to loneliness, to the suppression of the body, its carnality and senses, to the suspicion of the environment as an immanent and invisible danger. It talks about our current relationship with touch (what we touch and what touches us) and the sensitivity of the skin as a way of feeling, of re-connecting, of being in the world and with others.

Tangible Scores proposes to move with the sensitivity of our body and senses to rediscover confidence in them. We ask participating audience to close their eyes and move their attention to the sensation of their body, listening to the skin and breath and opening up their look to their so apparently well-known space of the house, in order to refresh their perception of what is around them.

Now more than ever, touching and feeling become a political act, a form of skill or dexterity about how to be in relationship with and from our body in this (post) pandemic world.

The audience connects from the private space of their home and is invited into a series of explorations starting from the sense of touch. 

- Score I, attending to the fingertips and a collective hands-dance.
- Score II, a blind-walk in the space around.
- Score III, building a tactile board, inspired by Marinetti.
- Score IV, going back to feeling the atmosphere of the house.
- Conversation with audience/participant, ssharing thoughts, feedback...

CREDITS:

Melissa Cisneros in collaboration with Marta Sponzilli
Interactive Online Performance
Duration: 40-60 minutes
Presented at the Online Performance Art Festival (OPAF), New York.
Theater+Dance Virtual Studio Lab of UC San Diego
2021