Monday 9/10 D/D notes – Damaris
Mythology
The wave sound (Miriam)
Proud Mary (Katharine)
The questions beneath the questions (Barbara)
The laughing goose on it’s back (all)
Spacious/not too much space.
The culture of seeing each other, finding out who we are, the culture develops from that. All balck also set the tone, showing up and doing the discipline.
Solo Quadrant form
Beginning, middle, end, 4 quads. Not pre-planned. Clap at the end to offer up the work/the practice.
Working from: Image, kinesthetic delight, pu influence, text, revisiting (callback) elements that resurface, repeats in the solos, rythms. Direct addresses grab the eye. Mirroring, flocking.
“Text is vibrational and although perfromed in a solo we hear it all together.
We’re beginning to talk to each other. Subversive, inderect talking to each other and directly talking to each other – 2 distinct separate disciplines.”
HERDING, SWARMING, FLOCKING form
We’re in training vs giving a menu.
Anxiety can be a flag to notice something.
Form 1
The swarming herd, allow the concept of flocking to expand beyond the person in front to include those nearest you.
Notice the
desire for unison, getting into performance head when leading.
Q - Confusion over which thing is the driving motion that was causing the swarm – the direction of locamotion? The gesture? The breath?
Form 2
In two groups you can move your place forwards and backwards, sense perception moving to the edges of the body, explore moving far apart.
Surrendering to creating one mind on the spot. It doesn’t have to make soemthing, it just is. A unity not a unison. Perhaps there is a spectum to exact unison.
Q – is facing the group pushing the boundries of the group or individuation?
Q - It seems more difficult to find group mind with the smaller group.
Q - Retrieval of movement, gesture, etc seems to bea language we can rest in.
The role of coach
Tyler coachewd two rounds of swarming/flocking.
Coaching as a way to support solos?
NEXT WEEK:
Continue next week to let this ripen, coaching the swarm herd, folks can bring in sound environments.
