Week10- Dance Article/Bill T. Jones website/ Joe Good video/Zap McConnel @hand productions

http://www.billtjones.org/new/bills_blog/2010/12/oh_what_a_night.php
 "I am left with these questions: What next? What do I/we (NYLA) want to influence, how and why?"

Mission Statement
The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company nurtures the art of dance, educates the public, and promotes collaboration among members of the allied arts of music, theater, new media, visual arts, etc. and the communities in which they work.

http://www.joegoode.org/ video home page
Shadow, light, color, costume, miniumal, simple music repetitive...Soft, Simple, and Clear

 

http://player.vimeo.com/video/12972433

The magic of the plastic bags, the feminity of the dancers, the boldness of the music choices.  Mystery, layered with hope and clarity.

 

Wolf Talk rehearsal 9



http://vimeo.com/31373269

Asher told me to do some editing, take out everything except for what I am willing to fight for.  This was just what I needed to hear.

Maida mentioned- adding another animal, ballet section?

Helanius- go back to why you wanted to do this piece in the first place.

Added River and Sky walking across during the sounding section holding a banner saying "We are all one family."  I'll bring it on Wed and we will see how it works.



Notes from watching the video, after the rehearsal.

Try walking in like wolves again, during wolf sounds, then drinking water, then sit back then howl. then wolves sound fade, then music begins as we begin CI
1) beginning seciton needs to move along quicker, less CI go into finding hands, get rid of pauses
2) less suspensions for jen on fast section
3) brian don't look up when you jump over me-
4) talking section, brian shows impulse to chase and that is when i run, brian, go a little faster,
on diagonal let brian do two things to me, not just one, he grabs me and that is what brings me into that lift around his head.
4)  Brian doesn't sound just rolls, just jen sounds. longer diagonal for that to develop
5) Brian pets first
6) lifting seciton nice, brian has to initate all the lifts
7) jen only pets at end, not brian,
8) no howling at end, maybe brian howls in silence
Jen

Week 9/Maida's piece Pillow Talk/Women in Love..Dance Article/ Beyoncev/s Keersmaker/The Playground

MAIDA WITHERS
DANCE:FILMS – AN EXTRAORDINARY EVENING

DANCE FILM SHORTS / NEW MEDIA / PERFORMANCE

Pillow Talk- I loved the intimate, sensual, universal meaning of the pillows.  I loved the dancing in white, with legs and neck.  I loved the act of just being, no story line, just moveming simply with pillows, the piece existed in Giselle's face.

Women in Love Leap Into Elevator Shafts

By GIA KOURLAS
Published: October 23, 2011

"What’s missing is a world created from the inside out."-when concept is greater than body involvement. 

"moving with the quiet focus of a small animal used to hiding from predators." would be interesting to put that quality on my body.

Beyonce v/s Keersmaker video-

I just saw the clips side by side.  Wow, does Beyonce have no integrity?  Surely she knew better than to do that?!

http://vimeo.com/20126770
Daniel Burkdholder's the Playground Ad Libitum
I loved the non concept, the non linear, the open dancing, the beautiful simplicity, the video art, the music, I feel like I'm trying to make a story, I hate making stories, its uninteresting to me.

New Exploration- lighting, music, close up

http://vimeo.com/31731741

Title- Me and the Moon

Intention- to video tape a dancer moving sensually close up, playing with the light source, inspired movement from the music.
Resources- video camera, small corner in a house, dancer, music source, light source

Description- Dancer's movement is inspired by the music and the hanging light source. 

Evaluation- At first I was interested in a different kind of movement/ and attitude, but once I found this music by Cassandra Wilson, Harvest Moon, the piece unfolded.  I'm not sure I've ever made a dance piece based on a piece of music first.  Usually I add the music in later.  But this felt great and I loved this piece of music.  I kept the close up video idea, in the corner and the light idea.  I would like to play more with this light exploration. I've never paid much attention to lights, mainly content and physicallity have been my focus, so to switch to these other elements felt like such a relief.  I didn't have to create everything. I could collaborate with these other compositinoal ideas.

I'm interested in this piece, I might add it into my thesis.  Somehting nice about just moving in the light of the moon, to beautiful music.

Dancer and Choreographer Obvious

http://vimeo.com/31376800

Title Dancer and Choreographer Obvious

Resources  Poster with words Dancer and Choreographer written, 20 sheets of blank white paper, 4 magic markers to write with, and assistant to help with the writing. Video camera and tri pod. 

Description The performer holds the piece of paper up to the audience and asks if anyone can read the words and tell what they mean.  Then the performer begins to dance, improvising, and making up movement and talks to the audience about what it means to be a dancer.  Then the performer begins to repeat a movement saying "I like this movement, can you name it for me?" and asks the audience to label the movement and the assistant then writes what the audience says on a piece of paper.  The performer does this again, dancing, choosing a particular movement to repeat and have the audience name the movement with the assistant writing it down.  This happens four times total.  The assistant uses a black pen to write with.

Now the performer takes a pile of blank sheets of papers and asked the audience to choose words that describe movement qualities, for instance, fast, slow, jagged, flowy and the performer writes down these words on separate sheets of paper using a blue marker.

 Then the performer takes another pile of blank sheets of paper and asked the audience to choose different emotional qualities: sad, happy, peaceful etc and the   performer writes down these words on separate sheets of paper using a red of marker.

Then the audience gets to pick one movement written in black- one movement quality written in blue, one emotional quality written in red and the performer performs that choosen movement.  This is repeated several times, having the audience put those "choices" together for the performer to perform.  Then the choices are strewn together into a phrase.

The performer will ask audience members to come up and perform these movemetn choices.

 Conclusions/Evaluation We made up dance phrases from choosen movements that we previsously named, and named physical and emotional qualites.  The ending piece of choreography that we all came up with was 1) running in a squiggly circle, crazily, 2) laying down an egg peacefully to the rhythm of the construction workers hammering next store 3) flying like a wave.  Simple choreography that these dancers performed beautifully, we did it in solos, duets, trios and quartets.  This was a great event.  The children jumped up to dance with me within minutes.  They were intesterd in making movement choices as choreographers as well as performing those choices as dancers.

Wolf talk rehearsal 8

http://vimeo.com/30921993

Rehearsal was fine.  Looking at the poorly shot video I had these thougths.

Why is it called Wolf Talk, doesn't look very wolfy too me.

I appreciated the slowing down of the griping of hands, but need to keep the fast section fast.

Need a little variation on the fast section, maybe not unison.

Still figuring out the ending.  Think maybe simply three lifts then let down.  Wrote more notes for Brian, will work them on Wed.

Will be performed in the round in the Bumper Car Pavillion.

Need to-

1) write blurb for Glen Echo website

2) Make flyers to be passed out at Puppet Show

Week 8- 2 videos/ Pina Film/ Endangered Species dance videos /1 Dance Article-Pina Bausch from Maida

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqC9cCkqEX4&feature=player_embedded
Repetition, and stark imagery can be so powerful.  Simple costumes, black, white, red, breasts. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtZBJsi56L4
I grew up a jazz dancer, have danced for clubs in cages, on pedastools.  I've never made a modern dance piece expressing my self in that way.  What is that about?  Why does modern dance not allow that kind of expression, atleast the release technique I grew up doing.  Modern dance's history, trying to be something other?I remember when I saw Bill T. Jone's do a solo and he moved his hips seductiviely, I was so surprised, and so was the audience.


"Her art was reading people and their essence, and if you want, their soul, and reading that through the way their bodies express it."  I think Pina observed people, I don't really do that.  When one sits back you get to see and see deeply.  I feel, and I'm present, but I don't often sit back and observe...

Wolf Talk rehearsal 7

http://vimeo.com/30456489

We performed it twice. I learned from last time hurting my back that I wasn't up for more than that.  This videoed version is the second version.  After the first one with critiques from the musicians and my husband Jason we tweaked it and made some more changes.

Next rehearsal is this coming Wed in the acutal space. We will look at costumes, and for the first time run the piece in it's actual performance space where we will be performing it Nov 13.

Week 7- 2 Videos Martha Clarke/and 1 Dance Article Review LIz Lerman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPyLZA53YmE
Martha Clarke-Garden of Earthly Delights.
Wow, I want to put my musicians into the dance, in costumes, as part of the set, not set off watching us dance, but part of the scene.  Hmmm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc2q9tChUxU&feature=related
Martha Clarke-Etudes of Italy
Nuts with the masks, again, how costumes/mask's create a disturbed mood, the dancers dancing backwards.  Must be odd to perform it.  Interesting, very moody.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/23/AR2011012303877.html
Wow, after all these years I can't believe change is in the air.  (I wonder why she never liked me.)  I know the feeling of wanting more creative freedom, I think its very cool she's handing it over to someone else, passing the torch, but allowing them to burn their own flame. 

Week 6- 2 Videos John Jasperse/Jerome Bell and 1 Dance Article Review/ Gang Gang Dance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDyiFkB58Po&feature=relmfu
John Jasperse
I loved the smoke coming out of his shirt, how to create mood, use of props, use of propy costumes, makes me want to create a costume first and then a dance from that.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC2gYasnD4k
Jerome Bell
"It is not art unless it is provacative."


http://www.sfbg.com/noise/2011/10/12/live-shots-prince-rama-gang-gang-dance-independent
Gang Gang Dance, a music band that I must check out.  I need to find good music to rehearse to. It enlivens me soo much!

Aesthetics week 7- Australian org/artists comments

Assignment 10_17_11
Please read through the entire 2011 catalog for this amazing organization in Australia.  Go into each document and familiarize yourself with this each contemporary performance artist's work.  Please list each artist and make one sentence comment on the intention as you see it or as you read about it.  This is an intense (exist ence you might say) Festival.

http://existenceperformanceart.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/exist-ence-2011-catalogue-now-available-to-download/
>> View/Complete Assignment: 10_17_11
As a dancer you might extend these ideas that are performative.

http://adamgruba.blogspot.com/Adam Gruba- Poland
Displaying the unsaid
What can't be said with words.


www.axisweb.org/artist/agnesnedregard- http://www.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviewers/single/86452
Norway
,"The work is thoughtful, with narrative without being linear, chaotic but oddly comprehensible, not unlike a quite enjoyable dream."
Props, I want to use props.

www.groupAdance.com-
Alyssa Lee Wilmot
USA
"an experimental dance and performance company committed to placing dance and ACTION art in close contact with other forms. "
"a/=a is a self portrait experiment: what happens when we document personal real emotional experiences? "

Andi & Sun
Australia

How does language inhibit real meaning.  I would love to see these folks perform!  To me this idea is of essence to my existence.  This idea is why I often feel more at home with animals than I do with the human being.


http://bbbjohannesdeimling.de/index.php?/arbeiten/leaking-memories-6/
BBB Johannes Deimling
Germany

I would love to see this guy, no dance, but props, actions, interest.  Leaking memories is a great title, reminded me of my apple piece.  Makes me think there is a huge world out there, maybe I don't have to keep making dance pieces, maybe I can see what possiblities happen when I don't rely on "dance".

http://www.beatrizalbuquerque.web.pt/
Beatriz Albuquerque Portugal
Back Bite-
"This video-performance piece plays with the idea that in Crisis Times the dialogue happen in the flesh, it is created and branded in the self. With this in mind 4 persons (Gemuce Azul, Binu Bashar, Tiago Borges e Alonso Turqueza) were chosen by Beatriz Albuquerque to be backbite as an active critical communication of what is happening to the world"

***********http://www.dysonindustries.com.au/medeleven/index.html
Clare Dyson Australia

Live Performance

We shared the swing idea, she took it much further, this piece looks amazing. I love the starkness of it.

http://www.wix.com/francisoshaughnessy/performance

Francis O’Shaughnessy
Canada
Performance on film

Fragility, curiousity, stressful, he killed the fish.

http://www.fransvanlent.nl/
Frans van Lent
The Netherlands
Performance on film Henrik Hedinge


Henrik Hedinge Sweden
Performance Documentation

Jake Sun & Annie Bowman Australia Live Performance
Though at times disparate in their engagement and aesthetics, all are united through a sense of the human condition.

I frame my practice loosely as conceptual art. Many of the questions raised by conceptual art and artists are significant concerns of my own such as ‘what kind of thing can qualify as art?’, ‘must art be beautiful?’ and ‘what is the role of the artist?'.


http://www.igneous.org.au/
James Cunningham
Australia
Live Performance
science, technology, where they come together through the human condition.

Jamie McMurray
USA
Live Performance

John G Boehme Performance on Film

John G. Boehme’s early art practice included painting, sculpture, performance video and digital technology, installation and photography. Boehme describes his recent work as "trans-disciplinary" employing performance, video, audio and objects simultaneously. Boehme is not constrained to any particular creative modality.

http://www.ladykitt.co.uk/
Lady Kitt UK Streaming Performance

How do people view themselves in relation to art..

Wolf Talk rehearsal 6

http://vimeo.com/30389103

This was the second run through and work through of this newly formed work.  We made some changes to what we did last week and I look forward to studying the video which is having trouble downloading, but I have hope it will work.

We decided on a new indoor space, which is lovely, worked on different ideas for bringing natural elements into the space.  Having people take from a bowl when they enter and place a special stone on the edge of the space. I'm collecting footage this weekend from Colorado, not for a movie but for a loop of natural habitat.  We had given up that idea if this piece was going to be done outside, but not that we are confirming it needs to be done inside due to weather in mid Nov. we would like to have some sort of natural footage besides the sticks and leaves we bring in.

Would love any and all feedback. 

Our dress we are aiming for brown and grays.

Hopefully the video will come soon.

Next rehearsal will be at my house again with the musicians, will be interesting to see what they think of the changes to the improvised form.

Aesthetics week 6- Yellow Tape Script

http://vimeo.com/30165391

Title: Within-Comfort or Confined?

Resources: roll of 3" wide yellow tape; scissors; large sheet of poster board; black magic marker pen

Intention: to express the impact of societal limitation on the dancer in a confined space of a taped square

Preparation: Write the title of your work on the poster paper and place it near the performance so it informs people about your performance.

Instructions: one dancer performs movement inside a 2 1/2 to 3 foot square-shaped box (yellow tape) on the floor / sidewalk / other space for 10 to 15 minutes that reflects the confort or conflict with limitation as defined by the performer. 

Conclusion: 10 to 15 minute time period.

Review and recommend changes: I performed this movement installation in an old Mill.  It was called Art in the Mill and it's an annual gallery put on by area artists in and around Loudoun County and beyond.  It was great to have a friend help me with the videing and to just be another eye. Thank you Anna! 


I do love working in galleries, I've done it many times before, but not with this script. I became the spirit of the waterwheel. At times its insistence was exhausting and felt very confining. Interesting, when I was first in there I wasn't tuned into the water wheel's rhythm, but once I started moving, it was clear we were "within" this dance together.


It was great to have a friend help me with the videing and to just be another eye. Thank you Anna! I do love working in galleries, I've done it many times before, but not with this script. I became the spirit of the waterwheel. At times its insistence was exhausting and felt very confining. Interesting, when i was first in there I wasn't tuned into its rhythm, but once I started moving, it was clear we were "within" this dance together.


Changes- I wish the posts weren't in the way of the videoing the whole time.  I wish the space was smaller,  like 1 foot by 1 foot, 3 feet by 3 feet  wasn't very small.  I felt safe not confined, but interestingly enough an audience member said she felt sorry for me because I had so little space to move in. 

Aesthetics week 5- Video viewing

VIDEO VIEWING:View the following videos and define what you see as the possible intention of the performance and its meaning for you in your work. POST COMMENTS ON YOUR BLOG BY OCTOBER 10, 2011.

http://www.revelinnewyork.com/noemie (Noemie LaFrance)

Wow I wonder how she began?  I wonder how she got 10,000 people to that pool in Brooklyn.  I wonder how she became the artist she is.  The roof top piece I believe was exploration.  The garage piece, I believe was creating a sence of voyerism, of mystery, watching a drama play out infron of you like a movie.  The stairwell piece seemed to be inspired by design.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llBijMDoL7s (Mona Hatoum - Variations on Discord and Divisions (originally 1984)
Not liking what they were reading in the news so they tried to wash it off.  Then the water they used to clean it off killed them.  Ignorance will kill you?

http://vimeo.com/18952957 (Nigel Rolfe - The Rope) after watching, go to this site and see if you understood what he was intending http://vimeo.com/18966117 bound, repetive, the usefullness of being bound,


http://vimeo.com/17973882 (Nigel Rolfe - The Pool)
uncomfortable, waiting to die?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1LWC39Ehm4 (Robert Ashley; poet) or select another of his works on youtube.

I was very uncomfortable with watching this.  I had to turn the video off.  Something about his voice, the timing of the video footage, it felt so disconnected to anythin I am comfortable with.  Perhaps that was his point.

Wolf Talk rehearsal 5

Yay,
After the disaster of watching the improv I did with Brian and the musicians I was depressed for a week.  Felt like the biggest loser on the planet, and that i didn't deserve to go on.

Luckily Jay, my husband convinced me that I am an artist worthy of living, so on Saturday Brian and I met again.  What we needed was structure.  So actually that was pretty darn easy.  The improvising had given us a lot of nice morsels so I strew them together into a nice duet.  It's not done yet, but its definately cooking now. 

We checked out different spaces and have choosen a sweet spot and have a back up if its too cold.