Review of focus...

Skinner Releasing Technique...

WHITE MIST - softly encourages the bones to lengthen, grow and unravel.

SEA SPONGE - are they real? damp, squashy, breathe, holes, living organism.

MARRIONETTE STRINGS - suspend, same image as falling upwards. Moving with no tension just hanging.

Focus and development...

Practice of Sarah Watley's phrase class. I am more aware of how lazy this movement is, I am so bogged down with ideas of melting and moving without tension and muscle over envolvement but I am missing out the detail and not fully performing each movement because of this.

Revise of movement studies focus -

find the balance between softening/ignoring muscle memory and retaining definition.

Installation...

Installation piece -

Is this dance?
Feel I have to move something then I must do it. Cannot participate without this impulse.
3 Dimensional understanding (Neg. Study)

Catagorization of objects. How to deal with stubborn traits and compromise in silence without gesture.

BIG GREEN WEDNESDAY! the organisation of recycling. audience can join in, bring and take items, offer a new catagory.

Flexability & pilates...

Noticed my hypermobility in my hip joints during a pilates class, I have to be careful as during partner stretching my hip will fall open further than expected and my partner must be aware if they have my weight in order to catch it.

Lazy...

My focus for this term!!!
Focus on maintaining technique as well as releasing tension when dancing so my movement doesn’t look lazy and I fully perform each movement.

Window like eyes...

WINDOW EYES...
one specific focus - edges blur but the mind knows what it is, does it fake what it see's?

"don't need to name everything as you see it, what appears in my line of vision, what is left behind?" - DANNIELLE JEFFERIES

NEW SPACE - yes your body doesnt see what objects are but your mind knows so interprets the image likewise. If it doesn't know, all you see is shape and colour. WHAT? creates the blackness that creeps into your vision when you look past something?

Term Two Improvisation...

I get stuck, sink fast as run out of ideas. Repeat task again think cus I tend to get an idea from it and think thats what I've been asked to do.

SKULL RISE & FALL

I thought the body/spine follows as the skull should lead

SKULL - Limp/follows
BODY - Loose, outward breath

Must try this leading idea with the top of the spine. Initiate from the skull or the top of the spine? Does this give a different outcome or is it the same? Vice versa with pelvis.

What if all the million cells in your body give up the pattern, and its just a pattern, of facing the front direction...

Walking Research (Influx)...

Follow...

Follow it! - means no repeating and continuing the energy and comitment to the movement for as long as possible. This is NOT a directional instruction like I first thought, so you can go backwards.

Following through touch... can appreciate movement beter with eyes closed and following with hands or body. Movement comes alive, a more 3D experience for myself as a witness.

CAN YOU WITNESS DANCE THROUGH TOUCH??

Does dance have to be a visual art? I suggest for the dancer(s) involved it is a tactile art so why can't the audience have this experience too? Negotiated Study???