Eyes shift focus, soften, close, scan, blur, point, smile, see, listen.
gesturing like a limb.
Spinal axis and back surfaces shaping figuring sculpting – although shape never quite settling, this figure caught in a push and pull. Something drops lower, is more behind, pushed slightly more off to the side or shifts to at another angle to something else.
And behind an invisible void that the limbs gesticulate, flail, grasp within. A figure twisting around the spine and turning back towards the blind spot behind. An interesting game.
and maybe it’s not dark behind, but full of colour and light. I can feel the air tickle the hairs on the back of my neck.
on my hands and knees, I draw very quickly on a sheet of paper the sense of the shape of surface areas that fleetingly form in my sensory imagination. drawing a sense of my back – a fleeting capture.
I rub compressed charcoal over the ‘figure’ and a surface of dust covers and lies on top of the lines, that is, behind my back.
arriving into this beautiful studio at Dance 4 iC4C [international Centre for Choreography] in Nottingham for my 2 week residency
allowing the three starting points / working concepts tilt, rhythm and back to circulate around and bounce off each other
thinking they might generate a kind of triangular force field for me and collaborators to orientate within.
my moving body fluctuating between tilt, rhythm, back
slightly disorientating
drawing through the back
arms unfurl and articulate from the spine
future lies behind, unseen
a figure gestures
Dorsality: thinking back through technology and politics David Wills
Event Factory Renee Gladman
Walking Backwards Ric Allsopp [in Mis-performance]
Through the back: situating vision between moving bodies Jeroen Peeters
Preparing to travel to Dance4 next weekend and looking forward to having the time-space-support to work alone in the studio on a series of dance studies and drawing experiments, as well as work with some new collaborators, be in dialogue with the Dance 4 team and engage in open public sessions.
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