Wolves at the Door: Daily Dance Journal

Thursday, August 18, 2016

Daily Dance Journal

Daily Dance Journal:
Well, not quite as daily as I would like. But collecting one minute (or more) improvisations regularly. As a practice. My goal is to have a collection of these as part of a dance journal of my sabbatical. Here is the first one. Music was added AFTER the video was made. I didn't dance to the music. The improvisations were a Block Text improv using this quote from John Berger,

"Poems, even when narrative, do not resemble stories. All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory and defeat. Everything moves towards the end, when the outcome will be known."

Thanks to Nick Slie for sharing the quote with me and introducing me to John Berger.
Shot on location: Richmond St, Atlanta and Core Dance Studios, Decatur
Music: "Bird in my house", Kate Mann

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.

Big If Dance Experiments

This is a format for inviting people to join me in exploring ideas through movement, text, music and whatever else is at hand. It is an opportunity for me to work creatively with others, but not to be responsible for "teaching". Each person is responsible for pursuing and crafting their own experience in relationship with the material and with each other. We have frequent members, and always new people as well. The name of the group comes from Charles Darwin in a letter to John Hooker:

"It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could ever have been present. But if (and oh what a big if) we could conceive in some warm little pond with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, - light, heat, electricity &c. present, that a protein compound was chemically formed, ready to undergo still more complex changes, at the present day such matter wd be instantly devoured, or absorbed, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed."