Thib exercice for getting ready (somewhere middle of 2010):
My task is to create a one hour warming-up and then a one hour movement research. Not based in what I know, but in what I want to get to know, what interests me, or what I need....
My task is to create a one hour warming-up and then a one hour movement research. Not based in what I know, but in what I want to get to know, what interests me, or what I need....
So, I started asking myself that question: que quiero?
....ah...important thing: it may be for no dancers, so I shouldn't be useing a "professional-dancers" language...
So....as I said, I started to ask myself: what do I want (in a movement research), and after a while, I've found that I want a lot of things, but one of them that can apply to most of what want... But...I can't tell what my objective is - that's another caracteristics of this task :)Hm.... Does it mean that my method has to be aplicable to anything? Or should I give the concrete exercices, and it means that if I use movement, someone who reads it and wants to do it, even if he/she is not a dancer will have to move....?
Ok..."te prends pas trop la tête" :)
So....as I said, I started to ask myself: what do I want (in a movement research), and after a while, I've found that I want a lot of things, but one of them that can apply to most of what want... But...I can't tell what my objective is - that's another caracteristics of this task :)Hm.... Does it mean that my method has to be aplicable to anything? Or should I give the concrete exercices, and it means that if I use movement, someone who reads it and wants to do it, even if he/she is not a dancer will have to move....?
Ok..."te prends pas trop la tête" :)
So: I'm starting with the warm-up (1h).
First step: you get into a space. Trying to be more specific, I'd say: at the beginning it would be good that this space would be open (in the sense of not being charged with objects, furniture, and that it wasn't crowded, so that you can wander around without being afraid of collisions with things or people). It can be a dance studio, or your garden if you have some space there, or the beach (not the one of Barceloneta though, because it gets reeeeally crowded)...
You start to move in any way you want, need, feel like. It can be walking, scratching, streaching, jumping, moving only parts of your body, fingers, nose, arms, right foot, head... Any and all of us has some patterns in the body that are easily reproduced when you let them. The important thing is that the movement comes more or less naturally (means that it doesn't really metter WHAT or HOW you're doing, you just occupy yourself with doing). If, meantime, you're thinking about the film you've seen yesterday....good. (I've seen Prince of Persia yesterday, out of the melancholy of the old times, and I have to say that the actors are absolutely gorgeous there, almost too goregeous :)
Anyways, so the first step is to move, small, big, minisculate, part, whole, repetitively (often this is the case), without thinking about how, without trying to controle it, without trying to make it precise, spectacular, exagereted, formal or having an objective.
Working on the solo and my definition of the choreography (middle 2010):
Look at me but don't touch, unless I love you... - fase kitsch del research
Este solo es sobre la búsqueda. De hecho es un conjunto de trozos que forman parte de una búsqueda. Es sobre ganas de bailar y confianza en ello. Es sobre ser piscis y todos los alti-bajos que conlleva esto. Es sobre antiguos y importantes amores, deseos, sueños...incompatibilidades de los sueños... Músicas cutres, que hacen soñar, o bailar, o recordar...y quizás no son tan cutres al final. Este solo es sobre conceptos muy "altos"; tan altos que hay que hacer mil viajes hacia fuera y hacia dentro para poder acercarse al grano. Es sobre ser un bicho, ser una mujer, ser una mezcla de las culturas, ser un artista, ser una masa. Este solo cuenta nada y en mismo tiempo mil maneras de tratar la edad, la soledad, las dudas, la fuerza, la feminidad, la responsabilidad, la danza. Contiene mil y pico preguntas diarias, sin interés especial y sin embargo necesarias para seguir adelante. Contiene mil y pico preguntas serias, importantes, existenciales... Curiosamente las, que no tienen a menudo respuestas inmediatas....y quizas nunca sabré responderlas....Bueno, siendo piscis, eso tampoco es tan raro....
Este solo no está acabado. Ilustra el momento de la fase de una búsqueda. De mi búsqueda. No la llamo "work in progress", porque me parece demasiado fácil. Y porque quizás este proceso y esta búsqueda no acabará nunca. En fin, aunque mi solo sea solo un esbozo, está lleno de sentimientos. decisiones, reflexión y tiempo. Asi que este solo es un mundo, aunque quizás lo sea solo para mi.
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