Site Work - Lia

We began the class with listening to the Ellen Terry Building History and trying to imagine how it looked like before: an old cinema. We started our movement exploration from the sensations that we had from listening to Lia telling us about how she came to the cinema with her family when she was a child and all the senstions she had from this experience.

• cinema/ noise
• popcorn
• movies/ stories
• people/ all ages
• relations
• laughter/ smile

All this words came to my mind and they represent somehow the trigger for my movement. Once the exploration has started, I had to choose 2 movements and to take them out, on the site. Finding 5 plces and integrate my 2 movements within those spaces/objects. Be aware of how the movement shifts or changes or stays the same once arrived into the site. I think it is interesting how the indoor practice is different from the site practice and how much it changes.
Scores:

• ALLOW BODY AND MIND TO BECOME TEXTURE
• CHANGE LEVELS
• ENTER AND EXIT SPACES
• FIND RELATIONS WITH OBJECTS
• EXPLORE FURTHER THE CYCLE OF 5 PLACES/OBJECTS
• EMBODY THE NATURE
• EXPLORE DIFFERENT ENERGIES

Site Responsive Dance - Process

Resource

• green+yellow
• car noises
• gentle but cold wind
• connection to the ground
• extension
• bird songs
• big/small
• tall/short
• near/far
• levels

First version of our group score

• Place yourself in space in relation to your tree
• Allow yourself to arrive in site
• Using your senses, acknoledge the surroundings
• Through patterning explore near-mid-far in relation to your tree
• Be spatially aware of other members of the group
• Use stillness to close the score

After practicing this score we found it quite closed and it was not so succesfull in large groups. I should be more aware of the other members of the group, I didn't notice our relation, but I was drawn to idea near-far as I found myself witnessing the clouds moving( how far they can be!!), but also the grass, flowers and bugs next to my body.

Our Final Score

                  Start at the edges of the space
                  Breath...
                  Acknoledge the near and far.
                  Allow the sounds to initiate movement,
                  changes of directions, levels and stillness.
                  Move in response to the sights and sounds.
                  Maintain the group awareness.

We all admit we are proud of our score, as it was succesful when we witnessed it.
Thank you TEAM!! x

Finding the heart...

I think this picture tells everything...I really found the heart of our site...

Site Responsive Dance Module

Here I have two images showing my responses to the nature, observations and reactions.

• silent walk to a specific site (microsite)
• resource page-collect
• acknoledge and cultivate my own microsite by playing with near-far, midd-far awareness, meander, settle and dwell, invite attention to the environment and other
• use level work
• come back and remap on a new page(valuaction)
• rewrite the score.

After this session, things started to make sense, I can BE THERE, I fell myself alive and aware in nature.

(writing from my journal- 16th May 2011)

Site Responsive Dance - Free Writing

This idea of 3D self...I really felt my ribs hugung me! I found many spaces between my bones and I felt my spine flexible and long after a long time of not bringing it to my awarness. This is what I celebrate today!

Taking a journey from vertical to horizontal in 20 counts (10 mins) . It's hard to control all levels of the body and then finding moments of softening the knees and of skull floating and then release all tensions.

Site Responsive Dance

Last term of the first year of study, we have been introduced to a new module: Site Responsive Dance, that I truly enjoyed and that offered me a really strong connection with the nature.