Catch-All Global Underscore 2021

“Catch-All” Zoom Zoom GUS site — for individuals and group GUS sites to join Hosted by Colleen Bartley & Nancy Hughes (Zoom donated by London Contact Improvisation) To Register for Catch-All: https://forms.gle/kCdsggZVQpbEbqGdA This is an online GUS site for people who want to connect visually from all over the world. We want to reach out to individuals who do not have someone organizing a GUS practice in your region as well as to those who are still isolating themselves from others due to COVID-19. Group GUS sites/Facilitators are encouraged to join. Please register for the Catch-All Zoom after registering your GUS site. The GLOBAL UNDERSCORE (GUS) is an annual event in which the Underscore is practiced simultaneously for a 4-hour period by people all over world near the summer solstice (northern hemisphere). The Underscore is a long-form dance improvisation structure developed by Nancy Stark Smith. It has been evolving since 1990 and is practiced on multiple continents. The Underscore is a vehicle for incorporating Contact Improvisation into a broader arena of improvisational dance practice; for developing greater ease dancing in spherical space—alone and with others; and for integrating kinesthetic and compositional concerns while improvising. It allows for a full spectrum of energetic and physical expressions, embodying a range of forms and changing states. Its practice is familiar yet unpredictable. The practice progresses through a broad range of dynamic states, including long periods of very small, private, and quiet internal activity and other times of higher energy and interactive dancing. There are 20+ phases, 12+ connections, and 7 aspects of the score—each with a name and a graphic symbol (glyph)—which create a general map for the dancers. Within that frame, dancers are free to create their own movements, dynamics, and relationships—with themselves, each other, the group, the music if any, and the environment. Visit www.globalunderscore.com to learn more. For the sites that do the entire 4 hours and are dancing in the 4-hour time frame prescribed, they will face a site to their East near the beginning and at the end - doing a STAND, a small dance. Other sites are doing nonsynchronous practice. A Meta-Sharing following GUS on Saturday, 26 June: https://fb.me/e/2dG1c776g Contributions from Sites and individuals are what financially sustains the Global Underscore: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/globalunderscore