The movement cloud and movement projects

We work with movement projects in our classes - you can see some recent ones here.

But… what do we even mean by a “project”?

Our practice is centered around developing movement. But can this even be done? Movement is inherently nebulous. So there is the need to work with ever-evolving material. But if we just work on things in a disorganized fashion, we cannot produce enough friction to generate the catalyzing heat of transformation.

This is where the usage of projects comes in. From this amorphous cloud that is “movement”, we impose a temporary order in the form of a project. We briefly condense the cloud into a fixed form, so that we can work with it. And in that process of working with it, we work on ourselves, and our own movement becomes transformed.

Once the project is concluded, WE have changed, and we can move on to the next project. Because that temporary project, that form, that condensation of the cloud is NOT the cloud - it is only an instantiated substantiation of it.

The cloud is neither the abstraction that it exists as in the formless state, nor the totality of its materializations across time. It is simultaneously both the platonic ideal AND the goethian multiplicity.