Works by Exit Map Collective 2015/16 Around the subject of care, intersubjectivity and sociability, we are creating work that is constantly developing but essentially allowing itself to be looked at from many angles. We switch performance filters, creative somatic approaches, trial composition tools and dialogue. We that is Tania Soubry, Anne-Gaelle Thiriot, Laura Doehler and guest artists. Ridiculous Copernicus and Polyticks 2016 at Chisenhale Dance Space with guest sound artist Chaterine Elsen. 1: Polyticks Through vocal and movement improvisation, individual impulses meet one another and create a stream of constructing, deconstructing and merging hybrid realities. A collectively built sound score frames our explorations and negotiations of the borders between training, practice, dance, life, process and product – the polyticks of performance. 2: Ridiculous Copernicus “Among the authorities it is generally agreed that the Earth is at rest in the middle of the universe, and they regard it as inconceivable and even ridiculous to hold the opposite opinion. However, if we consider it more closely the question will be seen to be still unsettled, and so decidedly not to be despised. For every apparent change in respect of position is due to motion of the object observed, or of the observer, or indeed to an unequal change of both.” –Nicolaus Copernicus Twerkasonata at Conway Hall 2015 For the past year we worked on a production that establishes the individual as an entity of form and sound that is challenged in the negotiation of meeting other entities, challenging co-existence as we find ourselves negotiating differences. We are working with effects of merging, layering and juxtaposition of movement and sound and what happens when we attribute certain characteristics to a specific place. Creating islands in space that become territory, we trigger meetings that allow audiences to anticipate what it is to go into new spaces or to undo the link between person and space with the overarching question, how can we really embrace the idea of free movement? LAUNCH at Cockpit Theatre 2015 with guest artists My Johannsson We’re all pervading the indie dance scene through live arts, visual arts, video arts, etc. via different routes. We have a distinctive practice-driven and experimental approach. We talk together, agree, disagree, discuss. And that is what makes us do what we do. ‘Launch’ was a sound and sense exploration wherein different research practices find a common ground, living side by side, provoking questions what it is that is us – being and inviting being with, reaching and radiating inquiries, sharing and listening. Work in Progress Sharing LAUNCH, Cockpit Theatre and Longfield Hall 2015 In Launch we investigated how we care and how we can induce a sense of care to the audience. The show is an assembly of different takes on care incorporating contact work, tea, singing and text and more generally where do we draw the line between ourselves and others, how much we are influenced and taken by other people’s needs, how much are we available or insist on our own agenda. Guest artists My Johannson. Back to Archive

Alice Labant Since Autumn 2020 Alice has been with Exit Map writing and recording for the audio guides. Alice Labant (1991) graduated from Trinity Laban and is the recipient of the Marion North Award for Outstanding Achievement in Performance and the Excellent Dancer Prize. Alongside working with Mara Vivas and Angela Woodhouse and being part of Medeber Teatro – avisual theatre company- she has recently worked with Gary Stevens, Charles Linehan, Vania Gala, Sonia Boyce, Owen Parry, Tony Thatcher and Marina Collard. Drawing from several art fields, she creates choreography works trying to depict with playfulness the discontinuous functioning of the mind. She is collaborating on performances or films with visual artists, videographers and musicians. At present and since 2018 she researchs and creates works with dancer and musician Gordon D. RAEBURN ( Swallowsfeet collective). She has performed in iternational venues such as the ICA (London), NUS (Singapore), Norwegian National Opera (Oslo), TanzZeit at Podewil (Berlin), Alserkal Avenue (Dubai), La Villa Arson (Nice- France), Royal Society of Sculptors (London), Richmix (London), MAC (Birmingham) Tripspace (London), the National Museum of Belgrade (Serbia), The Old Market and Fabrica (Brighton – UK) The Place (London), the Nouveau Monde (Fribourg, Switzerland), La Coursive (La Rochelle, France), United – C (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and L’horizon (La Rochelle, France).

Live Social Networking Station At Fishtank Festival, Rag Factory Rather than succumbing to the typical "Stick to Your Own Syndrome" at parties, we went the extra mile to foster genuine connections among guests. We enticed them away from their screens, guiding them on a journey through the venue, encouraging conversations with us and fellow guests. The moment a connection sparked, we ushered them into our booth, where we adorned them and presented a one-of-a-kind photo experience that captured the essence of the moment. Each interaction became a memorable and distinctive encounter. Our conversations thrived on daring speculations about identities, origins, and journeys, constructing a towering edifice of imagination ready to be unleashed and immortalized in our photo sessions. It was a feat of social captivation. With expert finesse, we orchestrated introductions, bringing together individuals and small groups, while our photos stood as living testimonials, freezing these moments in time. The questions of 'Who are you,' 'How do I perceive you,' and 'What do you think of me' provided rich material to explore. Through the lens of the camera, we delicately examined the nuances of representation, offering a unique perspective for outsiders to appreciate. Collaborators: Bettina John, concept, performer and costume, Jaime Leme, concept, photography and performer, Maria Vargas, Make-up artist, performer, Laura Doehler, concept, performance Back to Archive

Tree Planting Where movement meets action... To meet the upcoming festive season instead of chopping trees we planted trees. We took part of the National tree planting challenge and built planters with young Hawthorn trees with our local community to inspire environmental consciousness. A reminder that there is joy in collective action and that we all can contribute to something positive for ourselves, others and our future generations. With hammers and saws, this produced a wonderful joint effort, where breath and shared creation stirred conversations about ecology and social issues. Alongside we intervened with the public outdoor space where the Green community centre spills into the street. Over the day, many were drawn in as they passed by and helped putting the boxes together, the soil into place or the trees at the end. The Mayor of Southwark joined and opened this new green phase with a ceremonial scissor snap of a red ribbon. Community members named the trees: Andrew, Toto, Offee and Amazon. These are now the new members of the Green and will be looked after just like the guests who enter every day. On the outside of the boxes we put the faces of all who helped. Back to Archive

Exit map community dance improvisation lewisham. Dance workshops social dance classes London. Community events Lewisham. Dance sound collaboration. Audio guides. Contact improvisation. Dance performance and research. Shared Practice at the Green Nunhead. Non profit, director Doehler Soubry Thiriot What's On Shared Practice click here for dates, info and how to join Moving On Outdoor events to connect body to land Archive Online https://movingon.neocities.org/ For you to explore how Shared Practice led to Openly Spaced Out and Moving ON Community Engagement A way to grow with our glocal community. Openly Spaced Out A meetup to move outdoors in your own quirky un edited ways Visibly Unstable A Contact Improvisation Intensive with Laura Doehler, Asaf Bachrach and others.

The Most Wuthering Day Ever Hilly Fields, London 2021 The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever is an event held at locations around the world where participants recreate the music video for musician Kate Bush's 1978 song "Wuthering Heights". The event's inspiration is Shambush's The Ultimate Kate Bush Experience, which took place in 2013 in Brighton, as part of Brighton Fringe created by performance collective Shambush. Since then the event has been proposed across Europe, Asia, the Americas and Australia! In 2021 just when the pandemic eased we facilitated it in Hilly Fields, London! The income generated for this event went to fundraise Exit Map to be able to continue Moving On and to the local charity Hilly Fields who look after the planting of trees by getting the local community engaged to look after their local park. In fact two of the trees in Hilly Fields are there thanks to this event.

Contact Improvisation Intensive How does the image we create, the identity we hold, meet the call for change? Being seen in the tensions and negotiations we are finding ourselves in, we practice Contact Improvisation where embodied experiences can make sense of the everyday. 02. - 08.June 2025 Salle le Breuilh in Saint Pierre de Frugie, France An intensive led by Laura Doehler with contributions by Anne-Gaelle Thiriot, Asaf Bachrach and Cleo Legrait on processes of disorientation, contours and presence. We will be in the beautiful Dordogne to take time being in and with nature as part of our practice and way of life. HOW TO GET THERE Visibly Unstable Visibly Unstable Visibly Unstable Visibly Unstable We will take care of food and space together. Everyone will join in one way or another for delicious organic regional vegan and vegetarian food to be prepared and enjoyed. Together we make this event affordable and rich. THIS IS HOW and HOW MUCH Up to 35 people can participate and stay in rooms, dorms or camp outside. CHOOSE YOUR PLACE AND BOOK And here we dance

Contact Improvisation, somatic Visibly Unstable Visibly Unstable Visibly Unstable Visibly Unstable C o n t a c t I m p r o v i s a t i o n I n t e n s i v e https://www.facebook.com/laura.doehler www.exitmap.org @info.exitmap Laura is founder of Exit Map and facilitates learning and processing around how our body and movement fosters belonging, meaning, expression and connection for individual people, communities, students and businesses. She employs, learns and practices CI since 2004, making improvisation and human connection the tool and resource to trace change and the way we relate. Her main resource in developing her work is the Shared Practice, a format she co-developed in 2012 with her co-directors Anne-Gaelle Thiriot and Tania Soubry. Her projects Moving On and Openly Spaced Out are running since 2021 producing a practice and ongoing research in embodied socialising and socio-environmental connections. Laura holds a Master in Performance Making from Goldsmiths University and has been taught by Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark-Smith, Kirstie Simson, Charlie Morrisey, Asaf Bachrach and Matthieu Gaudeau amongst others. She also performs improvisations and teaches performance making alongside movement and dance studies in HE and independently across Europe. Teachers https://www.facebook.com/asaf.bachrach larret.org labodanse.org Asaf has been practicing contact improvisation for about 30 years, studying in Tel Aviv, New York, Paris and Boston. His most influential teachers include Steve Paxton, Kirsty Simson, Lisa Nelson and Min Tanaka. Since 2000, he has taught in Europe, the United States, Israel and Buenos Aires. He has a regular practice of tango (which he has been teaching for the last 4 years). Asaf is a certified rolfer®, trained by Hubert Godard. Hubert Godard and Steve Paxton’s eco-somatic philosophies has shaped Asaf’s teaching, research and life more generally. Together with Matthieu Gaudeau, Emma Bigé, Joe Dumit and others, Asaf has been curious how to dance philosophy, articulating multiple scores and tools that diffract movement and language. Asaf is one of the founders of the Collectif Contact in Paris and the association explorations sphériques. He currently lives in Larret, a founding member of the Larret en Mouvements collective (larret-a-venir.fr ). Larret is a place dedicated to research in improvisation, somatics and ecology and their entanglements. Asaf is also a CNRS researcher in the cognitive neuroscience of language (he got his PhD at MIT in 2008), dance and improvisation (labodanse.org ). Currently Asaf is developing in Larret a research action program with the local community that looks to impact our collective ecological imagination through shared artistic corporeal experiences. @harrietroberts__ Harriet is a dedicated practitioner of Contact Improvisation, with over a decade of experience in both teaching and practice. She hosts thoughtfully curated courses, events and workshops in the UK, drawing on her extensive training in contemporary dance, somatic practice, and hands-on therapy to offer a holistic, embodied approach to movement. Harriet’s playful, practical and poetic teaching style invites dancers of all levels to explore connection and creativity through Contact Improvisation. Visibly Unstable Booking How and How Much How to get there

Exit map community dance improvisation lewisham. Dance workshops social dance classes London. Community events Lewisham. Dance sound collaboration. Audio guides. Contact improvisation. Dance performance and research. Shared Practice at the Green Nunhead. Non profit, director Doehler Soubry Thiriot For people to join us moving outdoors in natural environments, we created a group called Openly Spaced Out that is accessible via WhatsApp. It is a meetup that takes place every Sunday around Lewisham. Anyone on the group can say when they go to the park and others then can join. The score is: Come, move as you like and share what is going on for you if you want. In not being alone we give permission to do things in our own quirky and untested ways. Move as you like: is a format where actions or 'undoing' come from listening to what it is we need by giving our bodies free range of movement. That may turn into exercises, silly jumps, shakes or dances but it might also be lying in the grass, throwing back a ball to a child or perceiving tiny shifts of weight on an uneven grassy ground. Say what is n your mind: Being in the park, we tend to socialise. It is a space to speak your mind but also to listen. You choose how much you want to engage verbally or physically. We give space to do both and enjoy the transitions from one to the other and testing our social contracts. You might find that these open new ways of being together. We also offer audio guides that you can bring to the park via your phone or an audio device and headphones. These were created by dance artists who work somatically and can fine tune our connectivity to ourselves and to nature, through spoken word guidance. These are available via our archive of Moving On which is the umbrella under which these were created. There are even more audios via our Spotify link which has a subscription fee attached but you can subscribe for one month only if you like to enjoy a wider range of audios and artists for a period of time. Openly Spaced Out was created during Covid to give people the chance to still relate. Back then we spaced it out and asked for conversations to be suspended but by getting out and move to not feel isolated as you could see others doing the same. The origins of this format however were even further back in time. Our initiative Free to Move penetrated urban spaces like Granary square (above) to dance outside to impress the need for space and common ground to move freely.

Archive Dinner of Doing Things This project was jointly conceived by the Exit Map community who created the zine Architectures of Togetherness where processes consisted of sharing dinners and conversations about our connections to others and environment. It reflected on our day to day movements, existing initiatives, living spaces, needs, Covid, information speed and how the drawing of intentional and spatial boundaries impacts us. It inspired us to find ways to soften yet respect social and spatial boundaries that support the individual and simultaneously renew a sense of collectivity. The Dinner of Doing Things is a format where a group of people gets organized to visit each other at home. Whoever is being visited shall articulate a need of theirs that the others offer help with. The need could address the home space directly such as gardening but could also be expanded to support any kind of need and may express itself in conversations, body work or project/ work support. The deal was sealed with food that we shared. The aim was to somehow de-privatize our home space by co-authoring it. To make ourselves feel more welcome or even just able to visit people who live nearby and share the outlook of wanting to do things together. And of course, get things done. To open your home however and invert our social imprint of presenting a perfect home, cleaning before guests come and preparing food to instead open doors and share what we need help with and welcome our guests delicious gifts, was not easy. It showed that there is a long way to go to arrive with each other the way we are and feel. Without preparing or altering our image, it revealed the intimacy hidden in admitting our own fragility that in the end nurtures our togetherness and brings us closer. Would you like to try? It continues when there is people who want to do the same. If you would like to be involved, let us know. info.exitmap@gmail.com Many Thanks to all who joined: Dagmara Bilon, Alexandra Baybutt, Thomas Herzmark, Joanna Flannery and daughter, Will Lang, Karen McCarthy, Emi Silvas, Katie Dodthing, Mao Mao Ju, Ziquing

Laura Doehler Current Productions / Research Mapping Communities The groundwork for the 'Architecture of Togetherness' is to understand how communities these days pursue the integration of 'being together' next to their everyday and often pressing needs to create models and structures for new environmental, social and political profiles. Having become increasingly attuned to how our practices can offer a kind of glue that can hold people and spaces flexibly and potentially unconditionally, the hope is to link our work with existing communities by understanding their current approaches and integrations of somatic practices and open a conversation on the urgency to have platforms where we can all meet no matter what background or mindset ... because we communicate through the body. This is a vision and research - by all means, we are not close to solutions yet. Who is John Wick? John Wick is a man who kills and gets killed over and over again and still he stands. He exists as fiction alive in minds, readily obscuring reality. What is it to live in multiple realities, what are the hiding places and what is it we reveal of ourselves when we wear other people’s masks? A true self flickers intermittently between images and personalities we borrow. An overriding numbness as we are submerged in stimuli that the more intense the input, the less responsive we are. Trailer : Currently a work in progress it is was presented as part of Towards A Regenerative Society, Together We Are

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