Andrew Dawson

Does the sensitive mind need the articulate hand?

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About Andrew Dawson

Andrew Dawson is a theatre director, performer, Feldenkrais practitioner, and hand model. He studied dance with Merce Cunningham in New York and theatre in Paris with Phillipe Gaulier, Monika Pagneux, and Jacques Lecoq.

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The performance artist discusses portraying one man's loss of proprioception, our sense of where our bodies are in space. How does losing it change the human experience?

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