Monday, October 24, 2011

October 24th Melodies and Desires

"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 17, 2011

Dancer Rehearsal 1 & 2

"http://vimeo.com/3064710"
"http://vimeo.com/30639753"

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.

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...

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.

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

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