Critical questions of site - dance

From skype conversation
[13/06/2009 5:30:53 PM]

Surface Tensions intensive will focus on

MICRO-KINETIC SENSITIVITY WORK - blood bone lymphatics vessels. eg Thoracic area. Opening up arms from spine. Creating space. Accessing property transference capacities.

AVAILABLE BODY- to its own systems of movement and other bodies. Now move into a space working on eg. bag of bones - eagle wings - an extension of this work. rather than elemental states eg. wind - anatomical images.

HOLDING AGENCY of pure complete awareness of supporting upper body through upper body, with holding wings. holding shape. rather than specific form, but still form based.

Another body in there. Internal working - operating with its own frame of reference and rules of engagement. How does that body stay open and able to be effected by its environment.

DEVELOP IMPROVISATION PROTOCOL

(Inluenced by Joao Fiasdeiro's method - Real Time Composition)

critical creative thought - not reactive but responsive.

Inhibit desire to perform. This creates clarity and trust for audince.

Practice the preconditions to work - no reflex and no expectations.

SURRENDER PHYSIOLOGICAL STATE TO THE SPACE/TIME MOMENT

Employ

- decision making tasks - points of consideration - Point A to B to C etc.

- external locus of control mechanism

- task: pressure on arm and then it will float by itself when you let go.

moving without tension. from butoh. It's being done to you - external control, working with resistance.

- ways of not disturbing the place

PRACTICE SUSPENDING TIME

(Developing in parallel through Rachel's performance work with Ellen and Marnie's workshopping with Fiadeiro)

Identify the central throughline of the moment, and stay with that moment until just before it is about to change. Do this by:

Reading the Land (Paddy Roe reference) or Joao says read the scenario.

Wait for the throughline to emerge.

Name / Describe the throughline (added bonus)

GO - do the act required as you are needed. If you are not needed, don't go.

FIND THE MOMENTS WHEN READY TO SPEAK/ACT

THIS IS FINDING OUR OWN AGENCY WITHIN THE SPACE/TIME MOMENT

THROUGH AUTONOMY AND IMPLICITNESS

The scenes of decisions become apparent. rather than being reactive, you are creating a set of possibilities to become self-evidenced in the space.

Stay in relation to own process.

RADICAL GIFT ECONOMY - SUSTAINABLE EXCHANGE PHILOSOPHY

IDENTIFY MODE OF SELF OPERATION

Questions around changing that sense of what the environment needs, working with community decision - more than this. what is it that activates community?

This time is for ourselves

HONOUR THIS TIME

Image taken during Camera|Body|Place workshop intensive 2009. Body: Rachel Sweeney. Camera: Marnie Orr.

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Place Mapping while walking

Marnie to Rachel
Dear Rach
I just finished speaking with you in the phone. I thought I would just jot something down ready for our conversation. I am on the choreography as cartography line.
I am also thinking now to look at setting up a tripod and leave the camera running. But I will definitely continue to embrace a triangulation of body-camera-country through a solo investigation, working as subject-photographer simultaneously | working the camera on the body.
BRAINWAVE - I need to find a geographer or similar! I am on it!.

I keep envisaging different costumes. So I was thinking I might work daily towards an OBA through the use of a costume | or not. This is starting to sound like being production-value-heavy. But it will be one person – so it won’t be much.
I have this similar image in my head from what I described to you in an email last year – at pixieville – floating down the river. Remember?

There is not nearly half as much water as at Dartmoor. Not even a tenth! But there is water presently! It rained!

I am good actually. Just a little hiccup with having (felt) overexposed to my yoga teacher. But I did ask for it. All good but. However, I have since been out of my ‘soulskin’. I am working on getting it back!

The place where I am looking at at the moment is Piesse Brooke in Kalamunda National Park. Attached are some photos. I have been doing loads of mapping and re-mapping. The surveys are shit over here. You have to search for bits and pieces to get a good geographical map.

I will be getting more poetic soon! I just want to set down a couple of ground parameters with you. Because I think we should formalise our process here (now). This will strengthen our practice, and I can then use this to form part of my MA independent project (which is another conversation really!)

In the image titles –
LF = Lesmurdie Falls National Park – another site quite interesting but riddled with tourists and their footprints and smell.
PB = Peisse Brooke, Kalamunda National Park – as described above.
The S1 / S2 etc stands for the site number (site 1, etc), and their reference name.
Tell me what your thoughts are.

Love Marnie

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