Listen 7/11/11

Siren - Uncomfortable because of connotations?
Unknown noises/static - unnerving, worrying, ugly
Laughter - unnerving, very unfamiliar
Footsteps - soothing and familiar, beautiful, rhythmic

Score from recording

Listen 1/11/11

I find it difficult not to get distracted by other senses and overwhelmed with sounds. Is the distraction a useful/good thing?

Some noise made me jump
Breath filling a hollow space, swirling
Belly noise,
Sharp,
Memorable
Musical scales lifted body from the insisde and imitated falling inside
Sounds reverberated depending on pitch and volume

Don't usually notice the sounds when walking. - Something I do many times a day but never pay attention to.

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

In the quest for washboard abs, we must remember we carry a lot inside of us.

Heavy weighty head

Brain is light a jellyfish, reaches through the whole body

Witnessing myself work: Uncomfortable
Look tense and strained, not natural

Dance Transformations Symposium

We are our own archive!
Does anyone want to see the process in a commercial environment?
Do we look for sameness or difference in inclusive dance? (do we need to sub-group?)
     Unison
     Human nature impulse to work as a unit but also individually
What does it mean to be an artist?
     Always wanting more, Responsibility, uniqe way of seeing the world
Is art only art if recognised as art? (Context)
What is the role of criticism in inclusive dance? (again do we need to sub-group?)
     Who is allowed to critique?
     Are there different standards by which we are critical, depending on the artist?
     Depends which stage the dancers are at.
Where does inclusive work sit within the broader dance ecology?
     Why are there labels?
     'Gatekeepers' controlling access to dance
     Seperate selves?
At what point does an artist need to go it alone?
When is the playing field level?
     Does anyone ever go it alone?
     Not constrained
     Never a level playing field for anyone
     Building up resources to deal with barriers.
How do we own our choreography?
     Acknowledgement? Belong to? Share? Embody?
     Why do we need to own?