Not technique. Remembering.
A practice here is not a drill the institution wrote for you. It is what your body does to remember itself. Micro-Dance is full-body neuro-percussion: snap, slap and stomp your way back to sanity. Timespinning is an ancestral laboratory for broken traditions, guided by harp and Romani philosophy.
The notation beside you is how the system writes a step. These practices are what survives the page.
Practices
Human MomentumA reading group and conversation series with Dr. Russell Patrick Brown, PhD and Alex Carberry at the intersection of technology, systems design, choice, and engineering modeling — through embodiment and decolonial perspectives.Begin
TimespinningGuided journeys with harp, Romani philosophy and a mobile app. Decolonize destiny through memory, tradition, intuition and imagination.Begin
Neuro-Percussive Micro-DanceShort, seated body-percussion practices rooted in Romani dance tradition and trauma research. Reset your nervous system one strike at a time.Begin
Gypsy Fires PodcastStorytelling, embodied history, research and theory deep dives from a Bashaldo Gypsy fortune teller. Decolonial dance history and Romani philosophy for surviving modern empire.Begin
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Raoul-Auger Feuillet, Chorégraphie, ou l'art de décrire la danse (Paris, 1700): a system for writing dance steps as floor paths.