Monday 9/17 D/D notes – Damaris
Evening Format:
6:30 – 7:15 Sitting and Personal awareness practice
7:15 – 7:50 Solo Quads (1/2 hr improv)
8:00 – 10:00 Exercises
Enter an empty quad from the wall. Take a solo in an empty quadrant; improvisational dance solo. Alone/Together, Playing with, exploring what you are drawn to do.
One clap all together at tend to mark the end and to offer it up.
“Beginning again and again,
Continuous present,
Using Everything”
Gertrude Stein
Discussion on taking Influence:
Taking in the quad, improvisational
Q How does narrative in the quad solo affect the movement choices in the other quads-range of choices? Monologues and echoes in quads.
Q What is the line between relaxation and rigor?
O Very quickly it doesn’t feel like solo practice any more – “permeable, influence” – yet still feels more personal than group improv.
O 3 in quads seemed to make the quads more relational, 3 is powerful and took over the space.
Q Value – empathetic and receiving influence. What is the difference between a value and an aesthetic?
BD
remembers summer dance lab; Solo quads and then invited entrance and exits into quads. The person who was holding the solo was the lead and still in solo, the one entering did so with an allegiance to the soloist.
Are we holding something or letting it go?
A place of solo definition, a place to be completely individuated and “something else’, what is “that”?
I’m in my quad with kinesthetic delight advancing to relationship with space. Then in the proscenium form of the quads, as in spatial relationship – I am in relation to others because I’m in a quad relating to space.
Boycotting not denying influence in order to re-establish your individuated space, not done aggressively. Working our awareness, maintaining the integrity of our quads kind of like meditation. There is a desolate quality. Communicate to audience and allows for unplanned connections.
The organic evolution of things as well as aesthetic.
We could choose to have a strict, narrow definition of quad solos, or we could choose to have an extremely radical view of quad solos. Instead a certain sensitivity to how/when it morphs. There is our attention. What makes the organism stay alive/awake?
What makes it possible to be seen when shared with others? My job to be local in quad solos maybe others outside can SEE the swarm, that’s not my job.
The eyes with direct looking individuated. A tool to call upon, a language to call upon a flock, herd and swarm. Even in these forms there are subtleties.
We returned to the place that we were craving as an organism. Inner focus supports the ripple effect.
Someone who has experienced it from the inside want to be a coach? No.
What’s the laughter? A vibrational release. A yield that happens, choiceless almost, no longer independent – you can’t help yourself.
You yield to it because it’s what we do.
Yet, there are individuals within a group experience who don’t experience what “the majority” experienced. You can honor and hold your experience as different. How?
The ensemble is becoming it’s own leader – a quality of it happening tonight. Outside coaching.
Flock
Herd
Swarm
Crowd
What is the difference?
The choice of kinesthetic delight drawing my choice VS my neighbor. How it organically developed.
HOMEWORK: Look for an actual herd, flock, swarm and try to figure out what they are doing. Leadership? Go to the source.
Plying with improvisational structures to let aesthetic appear using different dimensions of brain and awareness BMC and hang out in your low brain.
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