Going Public

"The boundaries between art and life, between performer and audience, shifted and expanded and the uses and applications of dance followed suit" Anna Halprin

This week we invited an audience - small in size but significant in presence to participate. It was suggested that the audience would become part of the improvisation. And this proved to be true .....

girl talk - turning to dust

talking led to greater intimacy in the movement then a return to talking about the movement and more movement again. the beginnings and endings are more organic but still the frame that defines an improvisation as a composition. the hopefulness of existing in the space between knowing and unknowing and also the terror of it.

perfume: content and the great divide

Last night i felt like i really stayed in the stuck places long enough to move out of them. Funny how staying, stillness or having are all really powerful tools to actually move forward. Speaking in the beginning and middle brought a new kind of framework to the score. When you talk about your day, your moment in the supermarket, the sex you had the night before, the idea of story changes and becomes linear but it keeps switching back and forth because your body moves out of order and you are simultaneously jumping, swinging, turning, striking through. The movement changes the story. Then there is a new one. Then you stop talking and it is great.

layers of consciousness

an unfolding dialogue

where does the impulse to move originate ? We balance internal and external impulses and manage the link between knowing and unknowing and learning and unlearning creating vignettes of movement that begin and end in their own time.

threads

2nd week finds us falling more easily into the movement and to the connections that lie beneath the surface.


"there is a sense of work - that can be really palpable,
task oriented movement that is really entertained takes us out of sense of dance/dancing and a sense of reality" ~jfm
"what story are we telling? so much more focus to form" ~kb

Three at last

Last night began a journey of process. We reached into the past and found ourselves firmly in the present. We began exploring improvisation as a means of connecting to each other and discovering something about ourselves. This blog will be a record of this journey.

Several ideas emerged from last night's dancing.
~ internal vs external
~ resisting compositional forms
~ cliche or common tools ie copying, cutting through space
~ contact

How do things begin ? beginning from stillness

How do we know when it is the end ?