matthew

Melissa

what next?

i am enjoying coming into the place of soloing and dueting-soloing into dueting-continuing a thread. It was really helpful to have the wonderful witnesses and support of Matthew and Asimina. I think this is a great place to work for the performance coming up-i think it might lead to other questions. And, it is agreat place to also integrate the developmental score we have been working on. I am going to bring my camera tomorrow-which I am excited to find out that it has 30 minutes of video time-YES!
i think it will help us look at and reflect on what is happening within these processes-how are we using the developmental score? what is happening in the dance? how are we supporting and listening to each to other? how does the dance 'develop"?

so-i look forward to more-and
yes, margaret is missed :(
;)

Post Workshop De-Brief

Feedback we heard from students:

Pushing, as CI vocabulary, makes sense in the context of the Developmental Score.
Pushing is awkward.

Questions I have:
Where do we go from here?

General sentiments:
I'm going to miss Margaret.

Developing Developments

hmmm. I had a lot of fun at the lab today. But, I sometimes have the desire to spend some time exploring other things....i think pushing in particular. I was thinking yesterday about the act of pushing and how much it is part of the contact improv vocabulary. You have to push to find a point of contact with a partner and to remain upright-and find that meeting of energy. I remember doing some exercises for finding pushing and resisting pushing (pushing back) with Andrew Harwood and Nita Little-well they came to mind last nite. And I thought, how "juicy" this would be if we combined even more of this vacuuming with more pushing. I know vacuuming is kinda like this push-pull dynamic-but what about push-push- and then finding the vaccum to lead you somewhere new.

I think of the developmental score as "developments". There was one week that we has talked about which elements we as dancers found as habits and which elements (of the developmental score) we found we were doing with certain partners. I thought this was really helpful information.

So, in retrospect, I think my desires for breaking down the developmental score stems from finding methods to explore these actions-some of them being more helpful, more difficult or left out more depending on comfort, habits, and the duet with your partner.

I have also become interested in finding new ways to sense and feel these actions-soft and hard-light, and energetic-so there is more of a range of dynamics within these developments.

anyhoo-just wanted to write alittle- I had to process some of the things I was feeling last nite.

Thanks allllll!!!!!

Recruiting for Open Training

Great work last night. Thanks Mina for encouraging us to think about recruitment for the Open Training. I reached out the Jake Wise from the Archer Ballroom.