Distances is a series of experiments developed in 2018 as a body analysis sequence as part of the choreographic space development for the bachelor thesis hülle (um) hüllen. The experiments explore the feelings between nakedness, intimacy, distance and how space influences these states and feelings. The skin as our first layer and the textiles we permanently use as our second layer become the centre of this series of experiments.

How do these layers influence the way we feel and how are they socially embodied in space?

The feeling of nakedness arises from the absence of an element with which the human body is in contact. This stages the constant haptic impression and expression of both. The presence and absence of nakedness depends on the presence and absence of a second shell. Nudity is put on while the second layer is taken off.

The body in-forms the shell and through it the body informs the space. The second shell becomes a medium that allows the body to communicate with space.

Does it only communicate with space? And if the skin is a shell, how does the body communicate through it?