"Love and the Body"
The Backbone Project
Script: create an eight movement phrase with gesture and physical challenge that you enjoy
Directions: choose your word from the 3rd through the 5th poem below to enter into your phrase
2nd Directive: Stand and gesture to the audience from the word that you chose above to bring the audience into the emotion of the theme once accomplished fall out of that state onto the ground, slowly recover
3rd Directive: Join another dancers dance and accumulate falling directive
During I'll be the rhythm and you'll be the beat
End
Melodies and Desires
Follow these instructions
Do exactly as I do
Lean your shoulders forward
Let your hands slide over to my side
Move your body closer
Let your heart meet mine
Love is the harmony
Desire is the key
Love is the melody
Now sing it with me
Come a little closer
Take a look at me
This light is so obvious
I want you to see
Come a little closer
Look me in the eye
Then repeat with me one more time
Love is the harmony
Desire is the key
Love is a symphony
Now play it with me
Love is the harmony
Desire is the key
Love is a symphony
Now play it with me
You'll be the rythm and I'll be the beat
You'll be the rythm and I'll be the beat
Then I'll be the rythm and you'll be the beat
And love, the shoreline, where you and I meet
Love is the harmony
Desire is the key
Love is a symphony
Come sing some with me
Monday, October 24, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
October 17th
Festival Artist Roster
October 17th
Thomas Quirk- Directs the action and curates the artists. Intersects include the interface of audience and performer.
Adam Gruba- Gritty and organic, nudity, fire, smoke, metalics, crushed underfoot in an impromptu sculpture and lined between trees blowing in the wind, his signature is immersive environmental intersection, conception, and revelry.
Agnes Nedregard- She assembles found objects with a sense of dilapidated off-kilter absurdity. We are placed in an unknown world part playground part social commentary.
Alyssa Lee Wilmot, Group A- If Andy Warhol and Molissa Fennly got together a performance art group this would be an approximation but with a mellow Cali. Vibe. Very curious about the “Remote Performance” Hold on to your pants this group can dance, not your typical performance slock.
Andi & Sun- Duo performers leave language and gesture subverted, deconstructed, opaque and encoded.
BBB Johannes Deimling- The living word a nightmare and a decoded message are the afterimages burnt on the retina of BBB.
Beatriz Albuquerque- Abramovic’s protégé or her little Latin worker, you decide. I say a female powerhouse on the rise, unshrouded, lady dipped in red.
Clare Dyson- We are in art school again, supper saturated in obscure imagery and street life captured in an instant. Raw, real, and steady with a beat undercurrent. Clare goes to Paris the city of lights and love and seems not to surrender.
Francis O’ Shaughnessy- Mad hatters, out of a puritan regime. An artist turns to performance to contemplate the games we human’s play.
Frans van Lent- His work is collectable and conservationist to some degree, recording the passing of time and alterations in the location of the body and the senses.
October 17th
Thomas Quirk- Directs the action and curates the artists. Intersects include the interface of audience and performer.
Adam Gruba- Gritty and organic, nudity, fire, smoke, metalics, crushed underfoot in an impromptu sculpture and lined between trees blowing in the wind, his signature is immersive environmental intersection, conception, and revelry.
Agnes Nedregard- She assembles found objects with a sense of dilapidated off-kilter absurdity. We are placed in an unknown world part playground part social commentary.
Alyssa Lee Wilmot, Group A- If Andy Warhol and Molissa Fennly got together a performance art group this would be an approximation but with a mellow Cali. Vibe. Very curious about the “Remote Performance” Hold on to your pants this group can dance, not your typical performance slock.
Andi & Sun- Duo performers leave language and gesture subverted, deconstructed, opaque and encoded.
BBB Johannes Deimling- The living word a nightmare and a decoded message are the afterimages burnt on the retina of BBB.
Beatriz Albuquerque- Abramovic’s protégé or her little Latin worker, you decide. I say a female powerhouse on the rise, unshrouded, lady dipped in red.
Clare Dyson- We are in art school again, supper saturated in obscure imagery and street life captured in an instant. Raw, real, and steady with a beat undercurrent. Clare goes to Paris the city of lights and love and seems not to surrender.
Francis O’ Shaughnessy- Mad hatters, out of a puritan regime. An artist turns to performance to contemplate the games we human’s play.
Frans van Lent- His work is collectable and conservationist to some degree, recording the passing of time and alterations in the location of the body and the senses.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Smith Gallery
Monday October 3rd
12:40-12:50
Dance in a Box
at GWU Smith Gallery of Art
watch for it...
12:40-12:50
Dance in a Box
at GWU Smith Gallery of Art
watch for it...
Sleep Deprived
Script:
Title: “Sleep Depraved”
Intention:
To explore states of consciousness and awareness, enacting the act of sleep within performance. Our dance is an improvised mystery based on a revealed score and a recored performance.
Performance score:
Performers must perform without viewing each other’s movement
Must keep eyes closed throughout
Audience must all stand around us looking down upon us
Dance phrase:
Lay down roll left and then roll right
sleep/calm
Then knock a bug off that continually crawls on us during sleep
Sleep/calm
Something shocks up jump up
Sleep/calm first
We hear a joke in our sleep we laugh
Sleep/calm
Dance in our sleep
Sleep/calm
Reflection:
Performers will view each other performance video to see how closely they interpreted the choreography.
Title: “Sleep Depraved”
Intention:
To explore states of consciousness and awareness, enacting the act of sleep within performance. Our dance is an improvised mystery based on a revealed score and a recored performance.
Performance score:
Performers must perform without viewing each other’s movement
Must keep eyes closed throughout
Audience must all stand around us looking down upon us
Dance phrase:
Lay down roll left and then roll right
sleep/calm
Then knock a bug off that continually crawls on us during sleep
Sleep/calm
Something shocks up jump up
Sleep/calm first
We hear a joke in our sleep we laugh
Sleep/calm
Dance in our sleep
Sleep/calm
Reflection:
Performers will view each other performance video to see how closely they interpreted the choreography.
Potential Research Areas
5 areas of research:
The question is…
Are these divergent categories?
Should they reference a singular theme?
I understand only I can answer these questions.
Passions and inspiration
Creating the world I want to join…
1 Green homes/architecture/ hauntingly beautiful spaces
Events and art locations connected to space
Souce space for art/dance evemts
Assistance from The former ambassador to Paraguay- Meridian Hill
Contat Steve at Parks and People
Contact Salon Home
2 Body-Mind medicines
Dance integrating yoga theory and practice, consciousness practiced
Intergrate my yoga certification with my dance paractice
3 Visual arts, new media, art/dance film/ art galleries
collaborations with filmmaker and photographer on visual media and dance
2 up and coming DC artists and me
4 Leading women of ancient culture and today
Grants for Wemon
Gender Equality and Genius
5 Aesthetics
fashion and integrated visual media
Bill
Documentary
“
The question is…
Are these divergent categories?
Should they reference a singular theme?
I understand only I can answer these questions.
Passions and inspiration
Creating the world I want to join…
1 Green homes/architecture/ hauntingly beautiful spaces
Events and art locations connected to space
Souce space for art/dance evemts
Assistance from The former ambassador to Paraguay- Meridian Hill
Contat Steve at Parks and People
Contact Salon Home
2 Body-Mind medicines
Dance integrating yoga theory and practice, consciousness practiced
Intergrate my yoga certification with my dance paractice
3 Visual arts, new media, art/dance film/ art galleries
collaborations with filmmaker and photographer on visual media and dance
2 up and coming DC artists and me
4 Leading women of ancient culture and today
Grants for Wemon
Gender Equality and Genius
5 Aesthetics
fashion and integrated visual media
Bill
Documentary
“
Just Say No
Just Say No Project!
No to limiting the gifts
No to unequal time to articulate information
Lucinda Childs Taught High School Dance
No to disempowering timetables
Martha Graham had her first full evening of dance presentation at age 38
No to women without purpose
Isadora Duncan Created a social revolution
No to marginalization
Margaret H’Doubbler created an educational revolution
No to women empowering men and their contributions above and over other women
Grants for Women is new for me
No to women discriminating against each other
As this is discrimination against oneself
I have been embraced at least fleetingly by the Opera Ballet, The Kennedy Center, a graduate MFA, the NEA am I legitimate yet? Perhaps the question is, are you able to handle the fact that I am gifted.
No to being the choreographer with no time to be a part of the art and dance
I am making friends with a filmmaker so I will exist for all time
No to any process that takes me out of creative growth and flowering
Just like my name I am a very hardy mountain flower
Shrouded by mist when necessary
No to limiting the gifts
No to unequal time to articulate information
Lucinda Childs Taught High School Dance
No to disempowering timetables
Martha Graham had her first full evening of dance presentation at age 38
No to women without purpose
Isadora Duncan Created a social revolution
No to marginalization
Margaret H’Doubbler created an educational revolution
No to women empowering men and their contributions above and over other women
Grants for Women is new for me
No to women discriminating against each other
As this is discrimination against oneself
I have been embraced at least fleetingly by the Opera Ballet, The Kennedy Center, a graduate MFA, the NEA am I legitimate yet? Perhaps the question is, are you able to handle the fact that I am gifted.
No to being the choreographer with no time to be a part of the art and dance
I am making friends with a filmmaker so I will exist for all time
No to any process that takes me out of creative growth and flowering
Just like my name I am a very hardy mountain flower
Shrouded by mist when necessary
Dance View/On-Line and News
Selected Dance Viewing:
On-Line
1 “Lazy Susan Part 1”
Tatiana Baganova
This choreography contains anything but lazy aesthetics, but the technique is released and clean while circular and repetitive. Movement accumulates and is reformulated. I like the sculptural quality of the dance and the space between the joints, the space between movements as they flow into one another. The woman in the green gown has an amazing spatial sense of multi-layered spiralic dancing. There are edges of the bizarre in the duet with bouncing seated performers in the back.
2 “Oyster”
Inbal Pinto
Again I am drawn to the absurd and bizarre within this circus of moving bodies and shifting imagery. Scenes of lightly harnessed dancers cavort like toddlers on leashes while tuxedoed men keep them tethered. The floating twosome are lightly controlled again by guiding men on the ground through contact with the ladies feet as they dangle. Are these pieces about subtle control amid the seemingly playful nature of relationships?
3 “Dance”
Lucinda Childs
This collaboration between Lucinda, Phillip Glass, and video artist
is interesting because of the consistency of the aesthetic all three have committed to which has not deviated since the inception of their seminal works. Repetition and accumulation are the primary ingredients that have made the careers of all three. I am wondering about the elegance of following an impulse through its evolution over the course of decades. The simplicity and stringency is accomplished with seemingly effortless ease. This intrigues me.
4 “Rosas Rosas”
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
The repetition of movement along with the intense delivery of passionately
expressive dance are primary elements that deliver this dance. The compelling
rhythm of the score by De May mesmerize me. Is this a dance about more primal
physical need than we ever see by a post-modern choreographer? This is
the beginning of a new genre, expressionism overtakes the shell that is left of post-
modern dance, finally.
Dance News:
In search of… the sublime
ADI updates the artist roster!
Jane Comfort is on this weekend at ADI and she is the Washington Post editors pick.
What an interesting way to enter October. Pinkline is throwing a party bus
champagne and cheese event, that I will miss but the show not a chance.
All my favorites, absurdity, beauty norms examined, and altered states of
conciousness. Definitly not one to miss.
Is there a new curator of the roster at ADI, things are looking up!?!
Dana Tai Soon Burgess
Dance Place
On-Line
1 “Lazy Susan Part 1”
Tatiana Baganova
This choreography contains anything but lazy aesthetics, but the technique is released and clean while circular and repetitive. Movement accumulates and is reformulated. I like the sculptural quality of the dance and the space between the joints, the space between movements as they flow into one another. The woman in the green gown has an amazing spatial sense of multi-layered spiralic dancing. There are edges of the bizarre in the duet with bouncing seated performers in the back.
2 “Oyster”
Inbal Pinto
Again I am drawn to the absurd and bizarre within this circus of moving bodies and shifting imagery. Scenes of lightly harnessed dancers cavort like toddlers on leashes while tuxedoed men keep them tethered. The floating twosome are lightly controlled again by guiding men on the ground through contact with the ladies feet as they dangle. Are these pieces about subtle control amid the seemingly playful nature of relationships?
3 “Dance”
Lucinda Childs
This collaboration between Lucinda, Phillip Glass, and video artist
is interesting because of the consistency of the aesthetic all three have committed to which has not deviated since the inception of their seminal works. Repetition and accumulation are the primary ingredients that have made the careers of all three. I am wondering about the elegance of following an impulse through its evolution over the course of decades. The simplicity and stringency is accomplished with seemingly effortless ease. This intrigues me.
4 “Rosas Rosas”
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
The repetition of movement along with the intense delivery of passionately
expressive dance are primary elements that deliver this dance. The compelling
rhythm of the score by De May mesmerize me. Is this a dance about more primal
physical need than we ever see by a post-modern choreographer? This is
the beginning of a new genre, expressionism overtakes the shell that is left of post-
modern dance, finally.
Dance News:
In search of… the sublime
ADI updates the artist roster!
Jane Comfort is on this weekend at ADI and she is the Washington Post editors pick.
What an interesting way to enter October. Pinkline is throwing a party bus
champagne and cheese event, that I will miss but the show not a chance.
All my favorites, absurdity, beauty norms examined, and altered states of
conciousness. Definitly not one to miss.
Is there a new curator of the roster at ADI, things are looking up!?!
Dana Tai Soon Burgess
Dance Place
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