CAVES ARE ALIVE
Since time immemorial, caves, both natural and built, have provided potent spaces for dwelling, meditation, refuge, and creativity.
Cave Forms is a transdisciplinary dance inquiry that emerged in 2014 from Margit's earlier exploration into "caving" as a way to replenish life forces. Cave Forms refers to a constellation of aesthetic/artistic investigations, and “caving” to the receptive and incubatory practices that focus specifically on nourishing the person in their environment, -- and the two streams have developed and intermingled throughout the arc of the work. This project has developed through multiple collaborations with manyfold people, and would not have been possible without the collaboration of cave hags Frances Rosario and Mara Poliak, as well as the Point Reyes sessions with Asia Wong.
An ongoing project, Cave Forms has expanded into multiple community-based, personal, collective, and cultural art inquiries – events and practices that discover the vividness and togetherness that unfolds from the fecundity of caves. Some of these projects include the collective liberatory and aesthetic research of the Cave Coast Continuum; the development of learning method, based on the streams of cave art research, aka “Caveagogy”; experimental lectures on “How to Incite a Vivid Archive,” and Cave Forms workshops shared in places such as Austin TX, SomaFest LA, Sonoma County, Point Reyes, and numerous workshops at its original homebase, Temescal Arts Center, and now continues in studios both in the Bay Area and internationally.
