The research began by facilitating a week intensive open lab at Yorkshire Dance, open to experienced dancers. We looked at many different approaches and strategies to sustainable collaboration and interdependence. We got inspired by the images and writing of John Briggs on fractal patterns, anthropology of lines of Tim Ingold, images and writing of patter formation in nature by Philip Ball, Andy Goldsworthy temporal sculptures. We discussed: collaborative and ecological open-systems vs closed-systems; how collaboration can be a dynamic process that is manifested as ongoing change; we wandered the streets without destination following sounds of the city and each other. We explored different ways of flocking, 'vortexing' , 'netting' and knitting, brunching, architectural tensegrity, huddling, embodying different species of lines and pathways. It culminated with a sharing at Yorkshire Dance.
