Today in the studio I felt a particular familiarity with the space I was moving in, whether it was during the warm up, during the breaks, group dance exercise or research. I wonder if it takes this amount of time for someone to be fully comfortable in a space. And I don’t say I wasn’t […]
#7 Ideas
Today I felt the difference between a classroom and a studio, due to the fact that in the first 20 minutes we were free to rehearse our piece, do research, or watch Kazuo Ohno’s work. It was like the ‘jumping’ mentioned at the beginning of the course, that in the end proves to be more […]
#6 Technique
I think we’ve reached a point in this class where we can start reflecting back on the beginning and on the experiences we’ve been going through since last week. Having this in mind, I can only say that dance slowly becomes a source of knowledge that is shaped by certain parameters I was not familiar […]
#5 Audience
Today I felt the concept of audience the most, because in both classes, Ondrej’s and Trajal’s, we were asked at some point to split in ones and twos and perform with our smaller group; and that gave me not necessarily an anxiety, but something close to that, putting pressure on my movements unconsciously. The fear […]
#4 Relation
Today this word – ‘relation’ – came up in my mind at the end of the class and I was lucky enough to find it in A Choreographer’s Handbook. Now I think it is an essential part of dance, experiencing the final exercises in Ondrej’s class. The moving of only one specific area in my body […]
#3 Self-consciousnesses
Always a Second Option With each day I feel like I get more and more out of Ondrej’s class. I start to feel new sensations in my muscles, especially when we did the ball under the back exercise for warming up. It’s like you try to make the ball become a natural part of your […]
#2 Facing the Front
In A Choreographer’s Handbook, the first sentences defining ‘facing the front’ state: “our thinking about direction is in constant negotiation with compass points and square rooms. Is there another way we could orientate ourselves in relation to the room we are in and the people who are watching?’ – and this is what I began to feel Ondrej’s […]
#1 Distracting the Self
January 7, 2019 Today I asked myself why I hadn’t discovered dance sooner, because I was struck by how both expressive and intimate this experience can be. It was like a hidden treasure hidden in plain sight all this time. For me, the highlight of today’s class was the partner dance exercise in Ondrej’s class. […]