"There is no universally accepted definition (for the word art), and for some cultures the very concept does not exist. The definition I suggest is based on the way in which humans distance themselves from and reconstruct the world around them" Clottes, J. Cave art (Phaidon. 2008) p.11 (italics are my addition)
A dancer lying sideways in the studio holding her shoulder. She pulls at her shoulder and it moves her. She holds her knee. She pulls at her knee and it moves her. Manipulating body parts to tie and untie herself.
Another dancer takes little steps forward rubbing her eye softly, tenderly.
Someone steps on her own foot, holds her arm and tries to balance.
Some cues I gave during the dancer's movement explorations in rehearsal that triggered these intimate moments:
- Feel the movement within stillness.
- The body imprints itself in the space.
- Becoming aware of the traces you are leaving (the traces you make with your 3-dimentional body in the 3-dimentional space).
- What do you reveal as you move.
- Recognising elements from the past threading into the present.
- Richness of the inner world. Choosing what you listen to.
- Becoming aware of what you are looking at, which part of yourself you are listening too and experiencing.
- Reducing everything to very little.
- Finding the blank canvas. The empty body.
- Noticing what remains. The flavour, the sensations of the experience you have been building.
- Finding your predicament as you move between past and present.
'It's not about choreography but it is choreographic." Rosemary Butcher (class notes April 2012)
I've been watching the BBC series Human Planet and every frame is so poetic. In the episode on desserts the barren backgrounds with figures marking the space reminds me of my own work. The minimalism of the frames allows the stories of the characters to be revealed by simply the position of their bodies in the space.
A dancer lying sideways in the studio holding her shoulder. She pulls at her shoulder and it moves her. She holds her knee. She pulls at her knee and it moves her. Manipulating body parts to tie and untie herself.
Another dancer takes little steps forward rubbing her eye softly, tenderly.
Someone steps on her own foot, holds her arm and tries to balance.
Some cues I gave during the dancer's movement explorations in rehearsal that triggered these intimate moments:
- Feel the movement within stillness.
- The body imprints itself in the space.
- Becoming aware of the traces you are leaving (the traces you make with your 3-dimentional body in the 3-dimentional space).
- What do you reveal as you move.
- Recognising elements from the past threading into the present.
- Richness of the inner world. Choosing what you listen to.
- Becoming aware of what you are looking at, which part of yourself you are listening too and experiencing.
- Reducing everything to very little.
- Finding the blank canvas. The empty body.
- Noticing what remains. The flavour, the sensations of the experience you have been building.
- Finding your predicament as you move between past and present.
'It's not about choreography but it is choreographic." Rosemary Butcher (class notes April 2012)
I've been watching the BBC series Human Planet and every frame is so poetic. In the episode on desserts the barren backgrounds with figures marking the space reminds me of my own work. The minimalism of the frames allows the stories of the characters to be revealed by simply the position of their bodies in the space.
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