a piece from the piece

Solo material from freewriting after being on site.

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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...

Performance Day [Moda Dance Company]

It's just the morning...9 am company meeting, feeling quite calm and confident, is this maybe because it's an improvised piece? It's this because this is me today?
I am now feeling again the sensations that I had during performance projects period...performing, being on stage, being seen, been looked at...being resposible for what people see.
Energy within the piece, softness, true, honest movement, following what it is, being aware of scores, being aware actually of the whole self as well as the whole company on stage and off stage...
Costumes influence the movement and the body shapes and also the communication between 2 humans...

[taking my own notes]

And now let's SALSAAAAAA!!! For this session I am aiming to observ from outside and to think about how this practice can feed my essay!

Pilatesss

I am having a lot of pilates classes this term as I understand now that it is a very important practice for any performer as well as human. We focus more on the body parts that don't move, but stay still while performing any exercise. I also feel very connected to the breathing as the teacher also explains how the breathing should work in relation to every exercise ans how the breath travells through the body, simmilar principles to SRT classes, when we are encouraged to visualise how the breath travells across the body, around the bertebrae,etc. Another aim of the pilates practice is to control the body by using the deeper muscles and always taking time to focus on the natural position of the spine and on the 'quiet' ribs, so bringing the body to its natural paths and curvatures. I also enjoyed visualising the idea of paralel lines going across the body from the shoulders to hips and knees and toes.
Every class I can feel how my balance is improving and that I feeling much more grounded.

Body as energy system

This week my attention dropped over the body as energy system just by starting with Polly's SRT Class whan we had some new and exciting graphics. Tracing in a figure of 8 patterns of energy starting with the front of the feet and legs coming up to the skull, going over the face, torso and coming on the back of the legs. Also including the front and the back of the pelvis. While receiving all this delicate energy traces on the body partner A can evem sway from side to side and the when we work alone we can even imagine how fantom hands appreas and trace the pattenrs again and then disappear.
I think as a dancer it is vital to be aware of teh fact that the ENERGY keeps us alive together with all the organs and bones and blood and air. It is interesting to recognize what chemical rections happen into our body every instand we are alive and this is why I went back to Polly's handout about SRT and :
'the hunam body is seen not as a mind-body duality, but as a dynamic network of energies. The network is totally unified yet within it are complex, diverse autonomus patterns and forms of energy. Although there are reverberations within the network of energies, there is no linear pattern of cause and effect.'