Finding a forgotten place

Panda eyes- cute comfortable
Lion Yawn, chatter, our legs folded the same, comfort, coughing, illness, MAN, my right leg is cold underneath, her pen taps in a pleasing way, usually annoyed. Feel comfortable in our box, our shared space, legs walking, soldiers, blue flecks in a coll space, artificial light reflecting clicking of a pen, hair parted in a straight line, sniffing, scratching our shard symmetry, A FRIEND. HELLO!! someone so far away that I;ve never met but I can hear his voice, moving waves on the floor like our shared breath earlier. Two doors to the same place but very different, one with lines going one way and one the other... special marks, the grain. When people are quiet because its not normal to see someone being quiet. SHANNON IS HUNGRY!!

Beginnings (Reflections on my moving body )

My body feels so different from where I left it with last year's movement studies.
I feel a lot more open to new ideas and movement.
My aim over the next few months, is to become more confident within my own body and my own movement.

Get to know myself and what my body needs.

Presence

Referring to my thoughts at the beginning of the year
             "I am interested in the use of imagery and how it can enable and aid natural and organic movement. I am also interested in learning more about my body and understanding how it moves and applying this to technique and phrase based movement"

Through my movement studies I have also realised that I have started using this research of my body to create new movements.

MY MOVEMENT IS MORE THAN VALID
Be clear with movement working through the body every body part as clear as the last

Using every body part to expand to try and expand my movement vocabulary
Moving for myself but with presence, being sure of movement

Fire

Saju Hari
Punctuating my movement being strong and owning it
Never average movement because you think it could be wrong
Averaging will only make wrong movement look worse

Using what's available

Using what you already know, whats available to me

Knowing an image with my body , not acting from the outside

An introduction to a place

Places in the room
Things you wouldn't normally see, go to, do

Tell the room about yourself, tell others about yourself

An introduction

'I like dance because I don't have to speak' ?
Or because there is the opportunity to speak ?

Finding out about other people, many similarities

Awakening the spine

Helping me to think about my own movement

Roots -- movement memory from performance projects

Listening to my body

Shapes of the body 

Charlie Morrissey

Lifting, challenging myself
Allowing weight over hips, relaxed and open
Suspension and rebound

Transferring weight

Negotiated study

The use of imagery as a tool to translate and enable movement.
Particularly Skinner Releasing Technique and its use of imagery

Interests

At this moment I am interested in the use of imagery and how it can enable and aid natural and organic movement.
I am also interested in learning more about my body and understanding how it moves and applying this to technique and phrase based movement.

Knowing is not experiencing

"Once while doing a plie I suddently had the feeling that I was standing on the whole sphere of the planet. This was the first time that I actually experienced the earth to be something other than flat" (Dance Imagery for Technique and performance)

Connected to the earth

Lava flow

The richness of the earth

Part of the earth

Walking on water

There is another sky,
Ever serene and fair,
And there is another sunshine,
Though it be darkness there;
Never mind faded forests, Austin,
Never mind silent fields.
Here is a little forest,
Whose leaf is evergreen;
Here is a brighter garden,
Where not a frost has been;
In its unfading flowers
I hear the bright bee hum:
Prithee, my brother,
Into my garden come!


Welcoming
Calling
Opening

Expressing self through words is very different from expressing through dance and words

Voice is part of the moving body - how it changes when moving

Need to find comfort and confidnece working at all levels

Plants and Ghosts (2002)

I used the online archive siobhandaviesreplay.com, to watch Plants and Ghosts (2002)
There were various sections to the piece which were very clear but there were recurring themes throughout.
The use of lighting and staging was very interesting as it wasn't the typical procenium arch staging and both this and the lighting created varying atmospheres and effects. For example, the lighting at the beginning and also part way through, which, both times highlighted a solo showed a dull blue light connontating cold or supernatural?
There were many instances of repetition in each individual section but also throughout the whole piece.
The most interesting part for myself was the solo performed by a woman using sign language and pre-recorded sound. The story was repeated multiple times whilst the woman moved to different points in the space translating the story into sign language. The story gradually became more and more complex, introducing new details to the story and was quite comical in parts.

Translated into movement creation?

Siobhan Davies Replay

http://www.siobhandaviesreplay.com/lightbox.php
Most of the pieces I have scrapbooked on the online archive are a collaboration between various artists, not just Siobhan Davies herself. I also included Bridge the Distance (1985) into my scrapbook as I chose to use this piece as a stimlus for the A Level graded piece.

Ideas

Touch
sound
smell
sight


contact
improvisation

multi-media
multi-sensory

participation
manipulation

Shadows

Light and shadow
How light is disturbed or influenced by an object to cause/create shadow.