The stereotypes executed by animals in distress look weird, troubling and uncomfortable to the public. A strange sensation that something doesn’t match is present. 
The challenge for our research started to be serious at this point. We are not interested in walking. We are not looking just for a loop that can be executed for a very long time and that doesn’t hurt the body. We are looking to find the sensation of weirdness in the dance : in the quality of movement, in the posture, muscular tension, coordinations and dissociations between body parts, timing. Destabilising the concepts of human and animal: what are their believed characteristics which may be switched? Destabilising the belief concerning the gravitational laws, the expected behaviours of different body parts, granting them an independent existence, making them „floating limbs“, living their own life. Or vice versa, making them become objects, making the whole body become an object. 
We were exploring numerous associations of movements of non-matching nature mechanic, geometric, (non)functional - and forms which could evoke more human-like creatures or something else.  

What experience have had the dancers, what has the research done to their bodies? They will talk about it in the next blog.