Invisible Dance #3
Title- 15 Entrances and Backward Exits
Intention- To walk into a store, and walk backwards out of a store 15 times in a row.
Objects and tools needed- One person, car, one store.
Description- One person gets out of a car and walks up the stairs to the General Store. That person opens the door to the store and goes inside and says hello to anyone they might know, telling whoever they are talking to that this they are accomplishing a dance exercise for graduate school. Each time the person leaves by retracing there steps backwards. The person can play with speed of the walk, pauses, allowing the walking to be paused by conversation. After 15 times of getting out of the car walking to the store and then walking backwards to get back in the car, the script is done.
Assessment/Evaluation/Notes for redo or future performances- At first I was really nervous. I was happy only Jim, the store worker was in the store. After telling him what I was doing I felt better. I was assured that he wouldn’t think I was weird. Somehow saying this was an assignment for graduate school made me feel better. More friends came into the store and they were all very curious about what I was doing. After telling them the exercise they were still curious and watched me the whole time they were shopping. A couple of people I didn’t know entered the store, so I didn’t tell them my script and one person especially was tickled by it. He gave me a smile like telling me he knew I was up to something and it made him smile. It was interesting because if you didn’t see me at the moment I was walking backward you wouldn’t know I was performing. At first I was happy some people just didn’t look up to see me, but by the end I was wishing more people could see me. It is always so interesting to change people’s perspective. I didn’t feel weird, and if they looked at me oddly I felt happy to tell them what I was doing. “Yeah, this is what they teach me to do in grad school, “I said and people laughed as I managed the wet stairs carefully backwards 15 times. For me personally taking the walking trip so many times in a row I saw things I don’t usually do. My 15th entrance and exit I walked very slowly and wished I had walked that slowly more times. I’m always rushing up those stairs darting in and out of the store getting supplies for my home and racing back to my car. It was heavenly to take the time to chat to folks. I enjoyed walking up those stairs with a different intention, and to feel the curious on lookers, and playfully smile back at them.
Determine five aspects that assist in the viewer’s awareness that this is performance even though it continues to be pedestrian in style and energy and movement.
1) Heightened open energy of mover
2) Repetition of movement pattern
3) Sensitivity of mover in relationship to other people in space
4) Sensitivity of mover in relationship to gravity
5) Mover dealing with architecture differently, example, walking down stairs backwards. Standing underneath a fan for an extended period of time.
6) Mover’s relationship with time is different than that of a non-performer, for example walking very, very slowly.
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