The Retreat: gallery drift

The Retreat: gallery drift is the second chapter of “The Retreat,” a studio–based choreographic research process to develop a prototype of methods and activities specifically for a dancer in order to create a special dance score as a form of retreat practiced in daily life.  Directed by  Thanapol Virulhakul, the score encourages a dancer to confront the horror of being disturbed both physically and mentally by the Other, with the aim of arriving at new understandings and relationships through the body with strangers and otherness, and in particular to encounter personal prejudices that the dancer is perhaps unaware of.  The methods and practices in the dance score range from practical comprehensible routines to fictional unthinkable events.