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“How to Fall – explorationaI.”

A 180 seconds Solosocial Dance Practice Ritual with 9 stages inspired by Vivaldi’s  Baroque “Four Seasons” Autumn…Fall Season shifting towards a Universal MoveMentUm of Liberation, falling a.part, freezing, stillness, separation and beginning again…

photographies, music, texts © by André Boeing, ktopia.eu
background photo taken last week on a regenerative farm in the geographical center of Sweden before leaving for NASM.

I  spent the first night after the first NASM + d16  “how to fall” course afternoon improvising and weaving impressions & inspirations  from the nutrient dense lectures into a 3 minute music piece composed for a 180 seconds Solo-Social Dance Practice Ritual with 9 chapter stages. 

Developed as part of my self assigned Impro curriculum I began an iterative, practicing process of composing < dancing >  playing unplugged live Cajon for beat tuning, adjusting sound and story in interplay, recomposing with open-source, node based multi-model workflows for production, live documenting through webdesign and keep returning to the movement practice – to empty mindfullness into mindfulness and keeping the beginners mind fresh and emptied to be filled.

A video recording of the 180 seconds Social Solo Dance Ritual presentation along the music piece has been completed on Friday, October 16ths from 4 different cameras and is up for editing somewhen during the next 3 weeks.

I am honored and grateful to be a participant of the the New Art School Modality (NASM) + documenta 16 “how to fall” October 2026 course centered on forms and strategies that attend to the peril and also the potential that comes from states of falling, getting up, and stillness, as well as the interstices of these states. What emerges from an examination of these logics?

October 12th – 16th 02026 opening week, UK14, documenta city Kassel
Faculty on NASM website

Phases, Chapters, Stages

A solo social movement ritual practice in 180+5 longnow seconds and 9 stages.

as a self assigned 5 day course impro-development sprint inspired by the daily lectures with a resulting presentation of the outcome performance
  • 0:00
    Baroque Entry

    Imitation of the past, Controlled, Pompous, Pleasing Entré 

  • 0:13
    First Beat of Change

    One hearbeat and the movement of cultural history takes a slight turn of hands..

  • 0:27
    Beats of Liberation

    Breaking out of Baroque, Imitation and choreographed Limitation

  • 0:54
    Falling back, Sky & Earth

    Sweet nostalgic return of the Baroque, honoring the above and below, the Sky and..

  • 1:10
    Rising back down into the feet

    Earth Calls again

  • 1:21
    Freezing into Silenced Stillness

    Distorted, Disarranged, Dispossessed

  • 1:39
    Breaking apart and the rebeated revitalization of one whole half
  • 2:00
    Invitation to join the Move..ment…um..
  • 3:00
    Hold Stillness 5 longnow seconds longer if you can!
The Dance has been presented on the last course day and has been recorded from 4 camera positions. Until final cut and go from faculty cam 1 video is available with a password request at andre@ktopia.eu

Daily, nutrient dense lectures

Like in any good buddhist retreat one receives a dense dose of Dharma Talks – Daily Lectures for the weekly re.treat – the rest of the long days is “chop wood, carry water, practice”. I am grateful for and inspired by the lectures and reading lists of such diverse and passionate explorers in their fields. Short take aways…

Thomas F. DeFrantz

Professor at Northwestern University, directs SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology, a humanities and creative research lab.

Thomas inspired me to Dance again – back to my roots as a Performance Artist in the 1990s. He took us back to the Baroque and way beyond into the Future to encourage embodied reflection.  

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Vijay Iyer

A composer and pianist active and revered across multiple musical communities

Vijay deepened my musical composing inspiration and practice from Monday in his lecture on Wednesday. Composing & Dancing as an iterative Dialogue became a root theme for further exploration. 

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Dr. Harvey Young

Vice President for the Arts ad interim, Dean Emeritus of the College of Fine Arts, and Professor of English & Theatre at Boston University.

Harvey’s passionate observations of details in iconic and historic photographs, Performativity of Performance Art Documentation, stillness and steps not taken inspired me to observe our practice from another position. 

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Dr. Hortense Spillers

Professor of English, Emerita, at Vanderbilt University, is a preeminent scholar of African American literary and cultural theory.

Hortense taught me how to deeper look into a characters life and workings of non-compliant academical contemplations.  

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Dr. Daniel Sutherland

Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois Chicago.

Daniel taught me about the Physics and Philosophies of Falling. 

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Lauren, Josh and Carl

performer, educator, artist, researcher, weaver and associate professor

deepened my re-kindled passion for the incarnated Body Arts which have been dormant in my work life for too long…

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I prefer open quest(ion)s and was happy about “How to fall?” being one of them. Yet: one  very simple answer or simply wise advise crystalized as essence of the course week: How to fall ?! : Practice!

process sharing

This is unfolding beyond the opening week of the course. 

But why would anyone want to Practice Falling? Isn’t that something we usually practice to avoid? Thats a question I currently explore in an after-course essay..

Neuro Nodes Audio Workflows taking live Cajon as a Beat base, poetic precise prompt dialogues adjusting to the dancers needs, and some unrelated onions for the culinary art at the cutting board 😉

Stable Audio model on comfy.org

Note: Collaboration with “AI models” means collaborating with our own collective intelligence reflected back to us and remixed in algorithms which workings are still unknown to us.  

fun inspiration for just the entry of the group) based ob classic baroque then building up to break out into the beats of liberating dance forms in our music piece above 

to be continued…..