The above are three videos from rehearsals in the Crowley Theater for the third section of Secondary Surface Rendered. We are investigating the use of repetitive movement drawn from the Re/Wire work to examine and magnify the corporeal kinetic connection between drawing and dancing.
Compare and Contrast
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pqhks1Q41g]
and
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/62056892 w=560&h=315]
granted, it could be said that we are looking at apples and oranges as one performance has audience on three sides, live music, and video. But I would say that these two performances are more alike than they are different. I am most interested in the spacing, placing, and pacing of the kinespheres and how they differ in the two pieces.
Personnel vs. Content
I was just at the Texas Dance Improvisation Festival this past weekend. Thoroughly enjoyed myself.
Sitting in on a class taught by a friend and fellow Lower Lefter, Leslie Scates, I listened to the discussion at the end of class. One of the participants brought up the question of personnel vs. idea during the exercise of Number Score.
Usually, during Number Score, the content happening in the work/performance space changes when the personnel/dancers change.
This need not be.
How to train Number Score to focus on shifting personnel but maintaining the content?
Does Number Score inadvertently simultaneously train Jump Cuts?
How to train Number Score and not drop material?
Maybe beforehand determine what the material/content will be…
must investigate (though, I have always had trouble with Number Score. Not that I think it is a pointless exercise. I see its value, but I have (almost) never enjoyed it)