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hands that don’t want anything

Back in 2009 I gave a presentation called Hands that don’t want anything at TaPRA at the University of Plymouth. It was about dancing with Kirstie Simson, the nature of presence and attempting to articulate things that are not able to be articulated. I’m not sure it holds up very well but I finally managed to put a version online (that includes video by Katrina McPherson of Kirstie and I dancing together — perhaps from 2008 or maybe it was 2009). Here it is:

https://www.skellis.net/hands-that-dont-want-anything

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