Documentation as a reflexive tool for movement and composition awareness

The aim of the class is to train perception and composition awareness through the dialogue between a sensorial exploration and its documentation. We will take a score from Lisa Nelson as daily movement practice. I have named it "The two sides of touch” . We will document this practice with drawing, filming, writing and talking scores. Participants will circulate between all modes and uses them as reflexive tools to unfold their movement and performance awareness. The multi-sensorial and polyphonic documentation built up along the week, will operate as a feedback system: Students will understand and communicate their point of view through the documents they will produce. In that way they will share their knowledge and teach each others.

You can find the whole description of the workshop here: http://www.idocde.net/idocs/426

26/07/2013, Day 5 with Jenny Beyer, Magda, Mariah Martens, Alexandra Maricich, Dicle Dogan and Dila Yumurtaci.

We showed each others all the video fragments made the days before, three duet  filmed by four watchers . see http://www.idocde.net/idocs/639. 

Then I proposed to  record a selection of  text that people wrote about a drawing of their choice. My proposal was to look at the drawing , analyse its composition and see if/ how it could talk  about the movement pattern and experience it originated from.  ( Listen to the audio below ) 

Note about the drawing practice: Since two years I am part of “ phréatiques”a Julien Bruneau’s project, “that explores intersections between dance, drawing and verbal thinking.” This project introduced me to drawing. In “Phréatiques”, we draw with black ballpen or " mine de plomb". The drawings can be individual or collective,they are based on perception: vision, touch, earing, kinaesthetic sense and imagination. Words are sometimes involves in the process of drawing and can become a trace as well, integrated in the whole picture. 

I forgot to stop the recording after the reading so you can hear the next proposal i made as a conclusion of the week. We did a last 40 minutes pactice of " The two sides of touch" in couple.One person was the environment, one person was the explorer. The explorer could use his hand to explore the environment or use the environment to explore herself. They stayed first in a limited area ( around one hand) then this area expanded to the whole body. They could call for  "open", "close", " pause", "change" and " report".

 "open" : eyes open

"close" :  eyes closed

"pause" : sustain a stilnness for as long you can or  as long it is alive

"change" :  from environment to explorer role

"report" : verbalise your experience as "doer" or "watcher"

I played the audio recording made from the beginning of the week, while people where dancing. 

 SOME TERMS USED DURING THE WEEK

STABLE / UNSTABLE

EXPLORER / ENVIRONMENT

BE CLEAR WITH WHO IS WHO

BREATHING

OPEN / CLOSED

PAUSE

EXPLORING THE ENVIRONEMENT

USING THE ENVIRONMENT TO EXPLORE YOURSELF

HOW DO YOU USE YOUR EYES ?

FOCUSED / PERIPHERAL VISION

LOOKING AT DETAILS

OPENING THE FRAME

REPORT

COMMUNICATING YOUR EXPERIENCE TO OTHERS

LIFE SPEND OF A STILLNESS / MOVEMENT / SENSATION

HOW DETAILS FEEDS THE WHOLE BODY

ZOOMING IN / ZOOMING OUT

GLOBAL COMPOSITION

SURVIVAL

About Lisa Nelson work see : http://www.idocde.net/idocs/427

I have made one idoc for each day of the ImpulsTanz workshop. You can find all the overwhole documentation in the folder: http://www.idocde.net/folders/51

Another folder that gathers document of a similar proposal in Ponderosa 2012: http://www.idocde.net/folders/15