Gemma's Research questions

Writing provides a handle for me to grip onto the complexities of practice and making.  Page spaces provide me with a place for reflection, gleaning and meaning making.  A space in which my dancing body can digest and find language in the imagery, narrative and thought processes which come with a dancing experience. Looking back over my first encounters with pages, drawing and writing intersect in order to word the happenings of a studio endeavour.  I notice description, notation dropping away, and the first flushes of imagination and expression seeping through my reflective accounts.  Now my writing provides a toolbox for research, practice and making.  It shifts, carries, supports and makes sense of the physical, emotional and cognitive reactions of a body as it acknowledges its presence and interaction with the world.

My reply:

Writing does play an interesting role in my life actually if I really think about it a bit deeper.
I hope you are ok with this little story of myself ... A few years ago, when I quit my latin and ballroom practice ( which was my love and passion at that point) I started writing poems !? I still have the book... I think writing those things down on some old comunist and yellow paper pages helped me overcome this massive crush..of not expressing myself anymore by using movemement, stepts, techniques etc... so at that piont it used to be another way of expressing myself and even of releasing my black and red thoughts that were inside me...now my writing actually tries to capture relevant moments of my movement, tries to reflect my emotional, sensorial and physical experience that I am having in a certain moment andwithin  certain space. It also keeps my memories alive and my writing also acts now as a resource for creating movement. I think it has a lot of roles in my life actually...it also communicates , it's like a network! I still think it needs to happen for longer!

Forced Entertainment

This is one of companies that intrigue me and inspire me in the same time....it's the only thing I have seen and it doesn't make sense....questions come up from watching them.

forced entertainment website

a piece from the piece

Solo material from freewriting after being on site.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150896690711623&oid=430501290303863

Studio based material that shifts incredibly while performed on site!

just a thought about today

My dear Hayley, I believe we all come in contact with our boundaries...we are all challenged in different ways and I think boundaries define us as the humans we are! One of the things I enjoy the most in Writing Along Side experience is the unexpected, the surprise and the challenges...how can we put on a page what we feel and receive every single moment? If 'dancing' - or being, receiving, sensing- is known as an 'unique' and 'alive' moment ( somewhere in time and space) then is not there to be captured on a page...but does my page reflect my dance? or that particular moment? This is a strong experience for me that I am dealing with from the begining of this project and now it starts to make sense!

On the other hand... I am know challenged by:

eins zwei drei fir funf zecks ziben acht noin tzein
voerds ruckwerds seitwerds ran in die hoke horh das bein. (Joana sorry for this horrible writing, but it sort of makes sense for me)

different challenges

I enjoy using my body strenght

I enjoy sweating

I enjoy crawling on the grass ( even if my skin is so allergic to that!)

I enjoy playing my childhood game

I enjoy laughing while playing it.

I am looking forward to the sharing tomorrow!

Summer Dancing Festival 2012

I feel so lucky that I got the working scolarship within Summer Dancing Festival, here in Coventry so I will have the chance to observe close enough a variety of artists and even work with them! The festival has oficially started and I am taking part of Gemma's piece again, as our first collaboration happened last summer. She is a Phd candidate researching about how writing supports or influences the moving and the other way round as well. It is a challenging task for me...wrtiting along side...