Gregory Stauffer, Sitting, performance, exposition Dance First Think Later, 2020, Le Commun, Genève. Photo Emmanuelle Bayart. Avec l’autorisation de l’artiste et d’Arta Sperto.

Gregory Stauffer

Sitting

2020, solo, premiere

Sitting explores the act of sitting on the ground, of cataloguing it through performance. The base, the weight, the position, the anchoring, and even the concentric circles that radiate from a sitting body. I reflect on the relationship with the earth and its resources. Raw choreography, the architecture of seating and its play of possibilities. How does our weight move, become dynamic, grow or shrink? What relation to the world, what myths and figures, are invoked and brought to us? Who is sitting on the ground?”