S1 Ep17 Dance Workshop (Instruction, Authority, and Following)

This workshop focuses on instruction and authority as core choreographic materials. Rather than treating authority as something held by a single person or role, the episode explores how authority emerges, shifts, leaks, and is negotiated through instruction, sensation, memory, time, and context.

Through a performative score titled Stand, listeners are invited to experience how even the simplest instruction is never neutral, how it organises bodies, perceptions, histories, and values. Standing becomes a site for questioning obedience, resistance, consent, politics, care, and inheritance, asking who taught us how to stand, for whom, and why.

The workshop then moves through a series of practices: following instructions while internally disagreeing, leading through vague or contradictory instructions, delaying obedience to observe how memory and desire reshape what is followed, and finally working with multiple authorities at once, instruction, sensation, and memory.

Throughout, the session asks what causes our dancing, how we negotiate internal and external authority, and what it might mean to choreograph with multiple authorities rather than choosing one. Instruction is approached not as control, but as a space of ambiguity, creativity, and care.

Dance workshop
Explore, imagine, move.

A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.

To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/

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