LipSync* is artistic research focusing on the practice of lip-synchronization: a technical term for matching a person's lip movements with sung or spoken vocals. LipSync* has been influenced by a transfeminine experience, therefore LipSync* provides space-time to satisfy the need to break free from social norms, shame and fear that cause suffering to non-normative bodies. Synchronizing with a loved song permits oneself to feel alive in one's body. Instead of approaching lip-synchronization as impersonation, LipSync* takes compassion as its foundation to practice "humanization" of oneself and others. "Humanization" is a remedy for the dehumanization from which non-normative bodies suffer. LipSync* insists on kindness and empathy, thus it explores different ways of listening, noticing and supporting bodies in shared space-time. By engaging in ways of being together, LipSync* becomes a choreographic tool. It is wit(h)nessing.
LipSync* manifests in workshop LipSync* Party
As an ongoing research LipSync* can serve as a foundation for exploring performativity, choreography and dancing. It can inform a workshop for several days - LipSync* LAB
If you would like to approach dancing the same way as LipSync* approaches a song, you need to reconsider perception of yourself. Foremost, be kind to yourself. Make sure you feel comfortable – check your outfit. Perceive the space, the time, and the body as a sanctuary – a place where you belong and you are safe without any doubts. Let heart become the beacon of light. Follow it, as your heart gives and receives constantly. Move as you would sense Sun kiss your skin.