Today, when I performed properly for the first time, I was relieved when it was not that big of a deal. However, I was extremely surprised by the difficulty of communicating my ideas after the performance in words. Again, this confusion arose in which I used to have a clear understanding of communicating my ideas […]
Improvisation
In the movement class today, we ended the session by working on the “leader and follower” exercise, and I noticed that as a group we started to create a certain flow which just went in a singular direction when we changed the “leader”. In the way that we, as a collective, have resonated with what […]
Keeping It Going
Today was a pretty rough situation for me in terms of self confidence in performance based actions. While watching the other dancers performing, I had a battle to overcome my self conscience to be able to just enjoy and observe the wonderful performances going on. But in turn, that also helped me to motivate myself […]
Unfinished Business
I couldn’t go to class on this day because I wasn’t feeling well at all, but this still was a profoundly interesting day in context of the class. Although in some ways, not having that routine, which was becoming regular in my life, being removed from that situation, highlighted the impact it was having on […]
Curiosity
During this day I had an overarching thought across the different classes which is the ethics of research. Whether we are referring to research through the body, through conversation, through sifting through books. And how that is then documented. In “A Choreographer’s Handbook”, Jonathan Burrows says that “Research is whatever you need” (43). From this […]
Accept What Comes Easily
I was surprised with my own movement and behaviour when we did the exercise of crossing the room with Ondrej today. At first, I moved in a more elaborate manner, and the second time, after Ondrej reminded us that we should search for the ‘second option’, I think I relaxed and really began to think […]
Familiar movement
The movement experience today helped me to consolidate my comfort in the studio further. Experiencing the type of movements a second time felt familiar and understandable, less foreign. I could recognize this especially when the audio system stopped working: suddenly I felt comfortable to move, blindly or guiding someone else, even independently of the rhythm […]
The Landscape Is There Already
The idea of prior existence immediately came to mind as soon as I became acquainted with movement within this class. There was a landscape of bodies, of visual and auditory landscapes all around the room as we moved throughout. I was surprised when I was not nervous closing my eyes and trusting someone else to […]