it is feeding me in terms of i have been able to be with people teaching and practicing, developing ideas for this live-online situation. i also feel a surge of energy when i see people online, however it is draining to maintain this kind of eye involvement. i get wiped out online.
when i am with people i am able to move more, the energy of being with other bodies inspires me in ways that doesn't happen when i'm alone in my room.
Focusing on the screen whether witnessing movement or talking for long periods of time is draining ... I feel as if my eyes are not allowed to roam. It's as if the screen demands my attention and, I feel trapped, even when I am able to break my gaze and move away from the screen... It has power/or we give it power to command our attention, similar to over-focusing on our digital devices (in case we miss something)...
I enjoy the energy of moving with other bodies as well, lo. I just can't help feeling somehow deprived of bodily 'freedom' (in an energetic sense) that is challenged by this online paradigm we have to negotiate. Maybe I'm just being resistant to inevitable change!
@jpm50go i don't think you have any reason to not be resistant, and i don't think it's inevitable. given climate change, i imagine we will be using less devices in future as the e-waste piles up.
but it's interesting you connect less freedom to be online... i feel less energy and less inspiration... but not less freedom. Maybe it's a sense of needing to be responsible to be seen?
As part of a choreographic process this August with one of my favourite dance artists it is so clear that the online process devours energy from me as a creator.
Filling in the blanks - the way energy is perciptible in the studio, the way the ligth shifts on the body and face, the way sound and breath echo in space - this and so much more has to be filed in. The camera is always missing something, with either the image of the dancing human being too big (with no head) or to small and unrecognizable. An anonymous outline.
In studio I am devoured by what is in front of me, and what can be on stage, and in possiblity.
On line, I'm imagining what is actually there, what is happening in real life.
It's this moment of trying to imagine what is actually there, that eats up energy.
Many I have talked with give the screen living qualities- saying that it Demands that they look at it, and if they turn away they can feel it watching them, so more often than not they give in to the screen's demands, so they become more involved with looking at the screen or through the screen or resting from the screen, and less involved with the movement work itself...
Not knowing if the content will carry weight after the pandemic... or to grapple with losing part of the concept to making an online version... sets up a lot of effort to determine which project to invest in at this time… (from Conversations 2021)
it is feeding me in terms of i have been able to be with people teaching and practicing, developing ideas for this live-online situation. i also feel a surge of energy when i see people online, however it is draining to maintain this kind of eye involvement. i get wiped out online.
when i am with people i am able to move more, the energy of being with other bodies inspires me in ways that doesn't happen when i'm alone in my room.
As part of a choreographic process this August with one of my favourite dance artists it is so clear that the online process devours energy from me as a creator.
Filling in the blanks - the way energy is perciptible in the studio, the way the ligth shifts on the body and face, the way sound and breath echo in space - this and so much more has to be filed in. The camera is always missing something, with either the image of the dancing human being too big (with no head) or to small and unrecognizable. An anonymous outline.
In studio I am devoured by what is in front of me, and what can be on stage, and in possiblity.
On line, I'm imagining what is actually there, what is happening in real life.
It's this moment of trying to imagine what is actually there, that eats up energy.
The people on the other end feed me.
Dance redux.
Unboxed.
No camera. No distance.
Imagination swells
The moment ecstasy merges with mind.
Scent of working sweat
Muscles on alert
Walls come down
Electricity spikes
All souls take flight;
Called back to life
Many I have talked with give the screen living qualities- saying that it Demands that they look at it, and if they turn away they can feel it watching them, so more often than not they give in to the screen's demands, so they become more involved with looking at the screen or through the screen or resting from the screen, and less involved with the movement work itself...
Not knowing if the content will carry weight after the pandemic... or to grapple with losing part of the concept to making an online version... sets up a lot of effort to determine which project to invest in at this time… (from Conversations 2021)