After having met at the 2019 BodyIQ, Veronika Sifter and Thomas Körtvélyessy began a project via Zoom, as teacher and student of Kinetic Awareness®, an influential, but at times little-known somatic movement practice developed by choreographer and intermedia artist Elaine Summers, during and after co-founding the (in)famous Judson Dance Theater in New York, having studied with two Jewish students of Berlin-based pioneer Elsa Gindler, Charlotte Selver (Silber) and Carola Speads (Spitz).

They quickly realized that this was a journey where apparent sidelines of the way were as defining, sometimes even more important than the main road, inviting them to wander along appearing causes. The radical student-centeredness of Kinetic Awareness®, its uncompromising emphasis on individual condition, choice, and sensorial response-ability, in-formation, created and creates an ideal connection to deal with marginalization, othering, (inter)generational trauma, and historical and very current political social developments, including their related countries.

Together they invite you to an experimental conversational sharing of their process, where often it turns out that what we need, we may sometimes already have, once we get to understand it as such. Lineages, languages, images, stories of present and embodied experience, will be shared & brought together, along with rubber balls, …