@maxine it would be a good resource for people to respond to during CM if they ever need some inspiration, complication, discursive prompts or a place to notate a new discovery.
because we can't have actual sensory interaction, we work a lot with sensory activation so prompts that would put people into a certain state of where they’re exploring a sensation, or a memory of another place or time or imagined experience that takes them into a deeper perceptual realm. (from Conversations 2020
@choreomarathon i have been in practice rooms (e.g. Power Shift's Daily Improvisation Practices with Sherwood Chen) wherein people have their cameras and mics off and the choreographer is offering proposals and we are all working unseen. I sense the intensity of a held space and time for that proposal and yet i am uninhibited in my imaginative capacity to invent outside of expectations, i can be in what i am in and i know no one is judging what is visible. the emphasis is on my experience. i feel this is great for practices that take a long time to refine, as an artist i am able to be in my own time scale of absorbing the material. i don't need to make anything visible until i feel i have something to show.
I am consciously trying to be open to different ideas that are not reliant on design, space and form, to find out if the screen offers that I wouldn't, or haven't noticed when in the studio? (from Conversations 2020)
Our dance language is a language that’s been around for a long time. Our job is to have our language be vibrant and now we have the time to invest in that...where does it come from, how do we make it better, how does it become more expressive, we’re trying to extend the range of our expression through our bodies so that we can become better interpreters (from Conversations 2021)
What if we choreographed something right now that was only about intention…or what other choreography can come out, what story or progression of events. Another way choreography works is by doing something we’ve never done before, so what if we choreographed only from Change. If I get focused only on space and form, I’m not going to be able to do that on screen the same way I can in the studio. (from Conversations 2021)
i feel like this forum is developing my perception of the archive. i feel it is a process archive that has many lungs.
because we can't have actual sensory interaction, we work a lot with sensory activation so prompts that would put people into a certain state of where they’re exploring a sensation, or a memory of another place or time or imagined experience that takes them into a deeper perceptual realm. (from Conversations 2020
I am consciously trying to be open to different ideas that are not reliant on design, space and form, to find out if the screen offers that I wouldn't, or haven't noticed when in the studio? (from Conversations 2020)
Our dance language is a language that’s been around for a long time. Our job is to have our language be vibrant and now we have the time to invest in that...where does it come from, how do we make it better, how does it become more expressive, we’re trying to extend the range of our expression through our bodies so that we can become better interpreters (from Conversations 2021)
What if we choreographed something right now that was only about intention…or what other choreography can come out, what story or progression of events. Another way choreography works is by doing something we’ve never done before, so what if we choreographed only from Change. If I get focused only on space and form, I’m not going to be able to do that on screen the same way I can in the studio. (from Conversations 2021)