Based on the book "Der Künsterlische Tanz Unserer Zeit" by H. & M. Aubel, 1928, looking at expressionist dance of the 1920's, and the methods and ideas of Laban, Wigman, Jooss, and Bodenwieser. This a significant period for experimental dance. Dancers became more concerned with personal and communal freedom of expression through the use of their body movement.
I have been working with the concept of movement for a longer period, exploring my own movement possibilities, finding ways to express and fulfill a personal need to use the body, and in this case re-creating and re-configuring moves from past documented images.
I copy and combine poses, and translate them to develop my own versions and narratives. I construct different sequences, and in this specific instance, with the aim of creating a channel of bodily expression and exploration for non-dancers.
A part of the project is about the exposure of trying and failing, the determination to figure out what the body  is capable and incapable of acting out, to re-discover possibilities of composition. This is a study by repetition, looking at the difference, and physical communication, which finally results in a channel for expression through the body. 
The process is of the essence, the video acting as a carrier/document of a journey. 
Movers: Sascha Bausch and Laila Evensen

http://www.youtube.com/embed/6X7mDYrgGBE

Small Still Moves II, 2011

1897 figures mounted on compressed laminated board, 180x120x2cm

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