Monday 9/24 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
BD (on influence in the quads) One of the underlying themes is that space is full of stories, that it has presence.
Set intention to do that; look into space, trust what you see is true.
4 solos quads are four separate worlds, distinct, but they’re a part of the whole. Yielding to simultaneous expression when it happens. Heaven, Earth and Man principle. Not a lot of previous set up. Synchronicity happens.
Be clear about beginnings and ends. Sometimes “middle” is helpful, but sometimes not needed, I can hold my large attention. Declaring Beginning, Middle and End is generous to others. Allows others to see intentions clearly.
(Discussion in response to the spontaneous entering of another person’s solo and partnering)
Breaking rules/adaptation/a new homeostasis.
An urge, an impetus (it can be demarcated when it’s expressed), a new piece of language that wants to spread through the culture. An essential way to harmonize with something new. Curiosity. Vibrational urge.
The soloist is being seen and is communicating. In this case with a composing and active audience. There is a curiosity and desire to commune with what is new, “Ooo, that ice cream looks good!”, a richness.
Inner focus in kinesthetic response.
O As soon as space is demarcated I want to respond to the container.
O A tension between defining something quickly, intelligence of organically finding it, but enough to contain the journey. The ripple, the woof as the “new” action permeates the old rules.
BD I am attached to, and ask that we enter along the edges to participate in the quads. Allows for the world to develop without trespassing. At times in the past the quads have been done in a circle, it allows for a more village art. Proscenium arouses something different in us.
The intention is to raise the level of attention in the whole room, the audience as well.
Kinesthetically, aurally, one could be receiving and sensing the environment and/or one could choose to respond to it.
Exercise
BD Instruction:
Go back to solo work. See yourself in the quad as a compositional element. You can take in objects.
The space map is in solo quadrants.
Each quad is a world
The first person who enters the quad is the dominant force if another joins, 2nd enters, 1st hold solo space and 2nd works off 1st in influence, all that 2nd does is “because of first”.
Look into space, where do you see yourself arising?
(Tyler “words monologue – text” with Christa)
Post exercise discussion:
O Well, for me it felt like too much chaos in the space. I wanted to hold space so I did not enter.
O Well for me I bet if we just let it “play out” it would correct itself?
BD Aesthetic/system/intelligence. I invite this notion of the group/individuals taking the directorial eye and this notion of duration. A vision of something perhaps layerable. Back to the question of sustainability. Being attentive to what’s arising and not have a bias towards or against it (ah, patience). What will that bring us? Sustained ambiguity.
One of our missions:
We are coming together to share something with others. The digestive process takes time, but then you make something (you shit it out?) Attune ourselves to when conceptualization starts accelerating.
Coaching solos exercise
As a bridge to directing. Letting the other’s coaching wash over you.
BD with Bobby enacted a “quick little model” of solo coaching. Soloist began solo, after they got established coach called beginning. Coaching included directs such as “gaze other places than straight ahead, find repetition, stillness. Could you add in some text, or tell me a story?” Coach also called middle and end. Then coach and soloist talked about what happened. Then ensemble got up and partnered together, simultaneously switching as coach and soloist. Discussion in-between – this was important.
BD Let’s not unpack this yet, this coaching solos. Wait one week. What is the “fallout” from the activity?
Housekeeping
Faculty concert has been postponed ‘till the spring.
Our last session together for the semester is 12/3 not 12/10. We will invite MFA to watch on 12/3. Perhaps we might have a one-day intensive the weekend before the semester starts?
Sat 10/26 Desolate Delight dinner at Erika’s 6pm
Sun 11/18 DD brunch at Cara’s
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