Photography Exhibition

Last Tuesday we visited the Warwick Art Center and we saw a very modern photography exhibition, called "Twenty-Nine Pictures", by the artist Hannah Starkey.
Here you can admire some of her pictures!

I noticed the shadows and reflections, lights and different sources o light(the moon, the lamp, the river, the sun);

-mixture of reality and fiction;

-human relationships;

-mirrors, windows, water... glasses, floor, closet, TV, desk( anything can make a reflection!)

Seeing this reflections made me ask myself how do I see myself as woman in society, at uni, at work, at home, or in clubs! But how do the others see you as woman, part of this world?

Some pictures made me think about the relationship: mother-daughter!

After a discussion with the artist, we found out that in this work she used her own language,she had different interest field into the time when she was in college. Her work is as well a "collection of documents that have a visual language. During this discussion I understood that the "creator" (photographer, choreographer, actor, writer) is not responsible for what the people take from their work, or the message that people understand.

One important theme of this exhibition is the WOMAN:

-individual;

-groups;

-different ages;

-ambiguity;

-possibility of narrative;

-how women are used by media;

-as woman, formulate your own language and apply it to the world;

-life cycle;

-what means being a woman;

-internal and external of an image;

This exhibition gave me ideas for my body story, I can even take some pictures ti myself in different situations, while working to this project, and talk about the dance reflections into myself!!!

IPP Presentation

We had to think about some ideas of a possible performance, and we had as well a discussion about it with our tutor, Katye.
The most representative work that we have done until now during IPP sessions is the portraits work. This helped me to look deep into myself and find different sides of me that I didn't know that exist!
After reading the hand-outs from IPP I start asking myself some questions. First I start researching who I was before this huge change came into my life....what this change bring in my life?
-place(country, home, room);
-language- expressing;
-food, water, juice, fluids;
-values, memories;
-lifestyle, friends, music;
- culture, books, DVDs; etc.....
What kind of influences happened before I start building up my personality, education and who I am?
Working with Fiona made me discover a new friendship; we even created our "hearts" inside our intimate universe and during the whole process we passed trough...
The movie "Avatar" is as well related to this work because I feel that now I'm living in parallel in this new world and sometimes I go back to where I come from. It's interesting to notice how changed is my point of view now and how I look at people that are an important part of my past...
This work made me reflect a lot about myself and even I start writing to myself...It is related to my Body Story also!
The discussion with Katye gave me some ideas: -memory of places where I come from (the beautiful landscapes of the village where my grandparents used to live and the house of my childhood, the animals around us, the forest, the fresh mountain-air, flowers, colors, interesting stories, sounds, alive nature, river, smells...)
Another idea is sending a series of letter to myself, to start looking to different artist that work with this idea and I'm planing to visit that amazing village in April.
The word "intervention"....-who made interventions in my life? and why? Sometimes some people, but sometimes it's just the "destiny"...things just happen!
I found a strong motivation and interest about cultural phenomena!
The idea- experience-expression...what is the source of my performance?
I need to find my boundary...how flexible can be my membrane? I'm afraid not to be broken at some point...maybe it's already broken...

Body Story Reflections

I'm just reading some hand-outs from Katye. It is about physical fitness and emotional side of every dancer! "Dancers are in fact, among the supreme round athletes in our society".

• Body Composition;
• Flexibility- a joint's ability to move freely;
• Balance- yoga, pilates;
• Endurance- the ability to use muscles for a long time of period without being tired;
• Speed- running, jogging;
• Power and strenght- cardiovascular fitness refers to the ability of heart, lungs and organs to consume, transport and utilize oxygen (jogging, cycling, swimming, aerobics).

The use of emotional well-being to move your life forward in positive directions!

The emotional balance helps us to discover and be aware of our heart's desires, taking positive actions and making changes in our life. Stress can be a source of damaging our boy and spirit and can generate illness. We can prevent this by sleeping and resting more, yoga practices, having a good and healthy diet, not smoking and not drinking alcohol. 

One of issues of emotional well-being can be the lack of self confidence. In this situation we need to talk to someone about this, because a shared problem is a half-solved one. We need to be open to all new good experience in life and all we need is trying to keep positive everyday.

This ideas are related to my body story, because sometimes I just can't let my home problems out of studio, and SRT classes helped me let them go and just living the momentum. 

An other important thing for my body story is the discussion with Joana abut my lack of self confidence when I have to do things that I never did, like theater games and improvisation. I think one of the sources of this lack is the fact that it takes a while to get use to this new language , people and environment! I think after that discussion I opened up myself and I can feel the difference now! 

What do you think about it?

So, thank you, Joana!

Other factors that are related to this topics:

1. Self-control
2. Social issues(friends, family, relationships, etc...)
3. Life events
4. Coping strategies

For example during reading week I was home and I needed to relax somehow and to move as well. So I decided to take a walk in Botanic Park of my home city with my big brother, Vlad and my little dog, Dolly.

I could feel the fresh air in all by body-heart, skin, lungs, nose- and I felt like all thought are living my head. I think that happened because it was such a pleasure to be there with my brother and dog, so we start expressing ourselves: jumping, running, laughing...so natural and so fun!!!

Sometimes animals can help you let go your problems and reduce stress levels.

I can say, from all of my heart that this little walk made an even stronger connection between my brother and I , and made me realize how important is he in my life! Even if in past we had "brother- fights", now I understand how much I appreciate him and I'm being aware of love that I feel for him!!!