The body of dance is the body of
Points of body travel through trajectories
The travel mode of movement
Trans – portation
The function of transportation is to achieve the goal of moving from one location to another. The notion that the object of this action is only of a singular body is part of the potential of...
The journey of the hand is the body of a traveler
The body of the head is the body of a traveler
The memory of the knee is the body of a traveler
Each point of the body (down to the smallest measurable component) has a potential for trajectory and transportation. The idea of these individual points of the body, as being individual intelligences, that gather, experience and notate experience, is for me the most interesting and curious aspect of my dance experience these days.
How could you manage to illustrate these individual trajectories, so that the unison of their multiple directive points are seen as a weave of one fabric. Where are they going and what are they serving. Are they aware of what their work is?
Head moves around while elbow dips in counter circles and hips duck and rise. These are obvious and familiar body associations, but how about if it was more deeply drawn from, such as the specific nerve ending at the rim of the fourth vertebrae, and the inner marrow cavity of the upper left femur and the specific tonsil of the right bottom edge of the throat. A single strand of hair or a point under at toenail or line along the right heart ventricle. It can go on and on, every single molecular point of matter has its own sense of transportation, within the confine of a larger body. Not unlike the body of our planet and the minuscule movements of tiny organisms (Us for example) in combination with other organisms and flora/fauna/geology.
