(im)perfect choreographies

Important results from the project

(im)perfect choreographies has problematized, inspired and expanded the fields of choreography, pedagogy and academia, and their respective understandings of and approach to the body and its abilities. By suggesting that so-called intellectual, communicative and cognitive disabilities are sets of specific, but often unarticulated and unattended, abilities, other methods have been articulated, visualized and repeated.

Expected long term effects

(im) perfect choreographies lays the foundation for other ways to produce, visualize and disseminate experiences and choreography with knowledge producing content. The project raises complex questions of knowledge dissemination and its form, of bodies representing the norm, methods of learning and the creation of choreography, pedagogy and science. The project has the potential to lead the way for an inclusive approach, and encourage others within the choreographic and academic field to implement functional variations in their operations as the norm.

Approach and implementation

During the working process of artistic and theoretical collaboration between the daily activity center VIDA, dancers and choreographers from production company ccap, and theorists from the academic field, new methods and material has been investigated, articulated and visualized through rehearsal and reflection. The work have originated from the movements, interests and needs of all participants, and thus resulted in a new choreography, consisting of both a psychical performance, as well as digitally recorded material and knowledge producing texts.