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