RESEARCH

Empowering Collective Performing Arts: A Facilitator’s Collection of Voice and Dance Scores to Overcome Social Barriers

(2026)

RED NOSES INTERNATIONAL

Empowering Collective Performing Arts: A Facilitator’s Collection of Voice and Dance Scores to Overcome Social Barriers' is a practice-led research project that explores the ways to encourage group connection through performing arts activities within diverse communities.

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Photos by Milos Vucicevic, Nikolett Kőrösi and Magdalena Klamminger from Red Noses International

'An Hour With Alice Presencer'

(2024)

HAUT SCENE

With a background in voice and dance practices and a great fascination with the staging of expressions, Alice shared a mix of impressions, influences and tools that she has collected so far.

Alice reflected on the social and bodily contexts that shape her process, as they pertain to artistic decisions, context and composition within her work 'Laboured Luxury' on Residency at Kineo 37 and HAUT SCENE.

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THE EXPRESSIONS OF A FAMILIAR VESSEL (2023)

STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY OF ARTS - ARTS PRACTICE RESEARCH

How can I encourage the understanding of interpersonal bodily communication through using the conceptual framework of “Affect” as a compositional tool within my performance practice?

‘A Familiar Vessel’ is the name of my performance piece created as part of my artistic project. The research uses my retrospective experiences in collaboration with the conceptual framework of “affect” to gather compositional tools that encourage the understanding of interpersonal bodily communication.

Through the collaboration of interdisciplinary potentialities of expression and the innate human response systems, this research can promote a non-verbal social landscape of empathetic bodily communication.

My research serves as a response to the linguistic-oriented world of counter-intuitive rationale. My endeavour is to facilitate and promote the engagement of primal human expression, encouraging us to “read'' one another without text. I am intrigued by the staging of affects and our efforts to actualise affects in performance. Will the old approaches need a necessary reinvention? How are the expressions aided or hindered by the social, referential context we exist in?

Written by Alice Presencer

'YES, OK, NO'

RURAL MOVEMENTS (2022)

Choreographic architectures was a meeting between eight professional choreographers, dancers, architects and landscape architects who took place in Östra Ämtervik in May 2022. Based on their different perspectives, they investigated movements in the landscape, an encounter that challenged both choreographic and architectural practices.

Karin Andersson, Daniel Backlund, Jonathan Bringert, Linn Eriksson, Erika Henriksson , Maria Naidu, Natalie Novik and Alice Presencer

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Following the success of the residency, the group have written a publication, where they share their experiences and what they have learned.

Alice Presencer’s contributions include instructional movement scores, movement mapping, and reflective texts.