we copy
we cut
we paste
we let mind run free
we don’t compose
we allow it to unfold
we all have a go
instinct intuition inspiration
it took two hours
I question the term ‘body as instrument’ spoken by a dancer. It carves out and enforces the body mind binary way of thinking does’nt it? My body is not an instrument, I am not an instrument, I am a living intelligent organism, living moving thinking matter. I dance as I attend to this living fluidity.
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suspending the form
>stepping away from it
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Shifting things around.
suspending, opening loosening identification
allow for resonance.
Engage and detach at once.
taking something in
digesting it
discovering
thoughts works for some things to happen, streaming, creeping, crawling. crashed and dislodged more
Learning starts from digesting information and then making it part of you. Part of learning is to discover habits and patterns. Patterns are resisting learning and breaking through these patterns we allow room for new knowledge and understanding. Habits form structure. How do we structure chaos?
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universe of beings → individual?
What do you/I invite to my life?
Poetic imagination interfaced with rigorous through (thought?) structure. This seems to hold relevance to me as a choreographer and my trying to continuously define a clearer more ordered process with the hope that I will achieve greater clarity in my work and for those people involved or witnessing.
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are directions of mind
same as directions of body?
Someone said: Everything is creative under us above us next to us; moreover, inside us. Hm. Do the stones move? Do they rattle? I tell you: “They act verrry verrry slowly due to my invitation.”
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perhaps we have surplus energy.
That is diverted somewhere else-
Anxiety. Energy
not lost it transforms, or is shifted
I was thinking raw. He said that, not me. But I believe I was. Bunch of clever ideas were rawing around our heads and as I seemed to hear wings rustling, calm breeze was tickling my neck. Sometimes I was not fast enough to move away and they hit me. Did I enjoy it? I don’t really know, it did not hurt so much, that’s true.
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choreographic process could be a strategy for learning,
unearthing patterns,
habits we already have.
Organised.