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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China Clay, Dartmoor

paint, coca-cola cans, plastic pipes, tennis balls, trainers, rubber bungs, plastic coving over car engines, car hub caps, sanitary ware, paper, plastic moulding, porcelain, rubber mats, car bumpers, white road lines, sparking plugs

ash soda skin
kaolin smoothed
waste deposit slowly bedding down
gravity sifts through porous layers
a silt secret kept below

this is cloth worn over broken surfaces
caked through impact and attrition
blended, pressed, noodled, dried

her tongue finds fissures
through ancestral scree paths

eyes scan the chalk periphery
where ponies flick damselflies
around gravestones
stone laid over crevassed hand and sedminent lung

The formation of china clay

http://www.dartmoorsociety.com/files/debates/chinaclay.html

Granite is one of the commonest igneous rocks, but varies considerably in its composition from place to place. While the quartz is never anything but quartz, the feldspar can be a silicate of alumina with potash, soda or lime and the mica can be the potash-rich muscovite or the iron-rich biotite.
In some parts of the South West, the feldspar in the granite is higher in its soda content than its potash content and these places are where china clay is found today. It came into being through a complex sequence of events. While the molten rock was still cooling, it was attacked successively by steam, boron, fluorine and tin vapour, these acting on the alkali content of the feldspar and converting it into china clay.


The South Western granite has been converted into china clay only in those areas where the feldspar contained a sufficiently high soda content.
China clay, or kaolin, is believed to have been formed through two processes:-
Hydrothermal activity (hot gases combined with high pressures) caused the granite (feldspars) to decompose.


Surface precipitation combined with humic acids from the bogs that were present, or by deep tropical weathering.

 Sustainable Development
Policies for sustainable development have been laid down by government. Sustainable development is concerned with ensuring a better quality of life for everyone, now and for generations to come. The Government's Strategy for Sustainable Development published in 1999 set out four key objectives, which the clay companies aim to achieve:-

a) social progress which recognises the needs of everyone.
b) maintenance of high and stable levels of economic growth and employment.
c) effective protection of the environment.
d) prudent use of natural resources.


Summary
The industry has been an important part of Dartmoor life for over 170 years and intends to continue for many more. Although it has a long history, it has a modern outlook, fully understanding its environmental and social responsibilities to the communities affected and influenced by the winning of this nationally important mineral and aggregates.

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