Thursday, April 24, 2014

Dance as a practical philosophically.  

Actively asking: Who am I? What am I? Am I my body? Am I in my body? Where am I within my body? Where is this dance coming from? What am I following? 

Memory, Culture, Taste, Aesthetics, Ambition, Discrimination, Hope, Aspiration, Desire... Desire from what? Desire for what? Is this for you? Is this for me? Is this about us? Is this really happening together? Does any of it matter? What matters? 

I want to be with you. 

I want to give it all away for free. 

I want to see how far we can go.


I want you to join me at the marrow of the moment expression occurs. That is why I dance, with you, we hold each other's end of the tin-can-on-a-string, a tether for us, with the muse.


Friday, April 04, 2014



Preparations and Considerations for Performance: The Check-list

Intention Channel:
Reflections on why I am dancing
What I want out of it
Who it is for
Its reason to be

Body Channel:
Extended axis
Tipping axis
Keeping weight in play
Being formed by the music
Forming the music
Motion follow-through and re-direction
Staying in the moment in the real-time process of re-forming

Temporal Channel:
Isolating the event of change
Moment of moving into motion
Moment of moving into stillness
Keeping time in play and changing
Rhythmic re-organizing

Thought Channel:
Access to choreographic signifiers
Access to musical signifiers
Access to visual art signifiers
Access to current topics/interests/issues

Composing Channel:
Facing in play
Direction of focus/gaze to audience or not 
Radial space in play
Proximal space in play
Spherical space in play
Linear space in play
Being formed by the space

Actively conjuring the space
Repetition and Patterning