10.00-11.00   Paul Gazolla: "shaking hands = handshake"     The hand and be it the action of shaking hands - the handshake is a primary physical point of contact on introduction to another. A symbolic representation of verbal communication. A body articulation that is both at once a concept and signifier of collectivity. As a spectator of handshake we witness an agreement of interaction. A ritual of communication. We re-live our own physical and historical understanding of its participation in its observation. But how much does this individual experience explain the knowledge of handshake? 'One can assume that all human societies share with each other a common fund of experiences and thus of knowledge. But they differ widely with regard to the content and scope of their knowledge' (Norbert Elias, The Symbol Theory) Handshake is always becoming or transforming into a new configuration through the point of relationship within its environment. Since each person experiences the handshake from a predetermined perspective within a flux of touching and being touched. Through its movement we transition from singular to plural. Individual to collective. We are introduced to other ideas. We remain individual within and become an-other in its action. I shake your hand. You shake my hand. I shake your hand. You shake your hand. You shake your hand. I shake my hand. I shake our hands. You shake our hands. We shake our hands. Hence there is no possibility of complete awareness of the handshake, or the net of its meaning. shaking hands = handshake The performance of shaking hands. An agreement of interaction. Saal C Devoted to handshake meetings. An area of seating is provided to observe the action Instructions/agreement People meet to shake hands. You can go to handshake as many times as you like stay as long as you want in the handshake use left, right or both hands sit, stand, walk, talk etc while you shake hands return where you came from or go to another room leave together or separately talk, eat, play cards etc. Duration 1 - 2hrs nb. There are of course different possibilities of executing a movement or action but in shaking hands = handshake the interest is on what the action or the movement proposes when the performer tries to realise/execute it in its most simplistic characteristic. We do not have to look for the unusual, never seen before, special, different, spectacular or surprising ways of moving. Paul Gazzola, Tänzer, Performer, Feldenkrais-Lehrer. Gazolla thematisiert in seiner Arbeit Performance/Theater, in dem die Humanität der Handlung der zentrale Focus des Ereignisses ist. Zunächst absolvierte er eine Lehre als Tischler, bevor er 1987 mit seinen Tanzstudien begann. Die Feldenkrais Arbeit versteht er als Methode, die seinen Zugang und seine Haltung zum Prozeß der Kreativität beeinflußt.