13th September 2021 – 14th September 2021 – 16th September 2021
Thursday 16th September 2021
Either we continue with the lead exploration of support or we can look at some new work where I’m exploring the felt sense of dance.
A felt sense of dance?
Score
To start we will ask the question: When does it feel like dance?
Through a series of improvisational tasks or choreographic scores.
5min Walk , sit , roll , run , lie , stand, stretch, touch, but don’t dance
- Here, feel how distraction, silence and presence of others create a feeling of dance. Even context perhaps.
- Perhaps consider how the choreography “to not dance” informs your attitude, attention and awareness.
10min Continue walking, lying, sitting, rolling, standing but know when it starts to feel like a dance let it be a dance.
- Stay with it and let it be and perhaps become a dance.
- Follow that dance until it is not a dance or you get distracted. Then continue not dancing until it feels like a dance again.
15min Now I would like to invite you to dance, to feel as if you are dancing.
- And play with that edge between dancing and not dancing
- Explore none dance and dance
- Or perhaps none dance dance and dance dance
- And distraction
- Letting distraction in and inform your experience a little.
- If you struggle you can go back to the previous exercise then return to this when you want
Follow your distractions
- if you are distracted by a distraction follow it and so on
15min After a short discussion about the experiences so far
- Continue discussing and as you converese feel as if you are dancing when you are either talking or listening and talk and listen whenever you feel as if you are dancing
- Dance when you talk or listen and talk or listen whenever you are dancing.
- Really play with that quality of concentration moving between and in between dancing and conversing.
- Do both activities of conversing and dance simultaneously, at the same time.
20 min IS THIS IT
Stand
- Asking questions about history, and understanding of the choreography to stand
20 min Experience play with the different edges of different types or sensations of dance.
With music https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThSpT7k2UhaSfN8bgVHNXpDIagLIDK4j
Tuesday 14th September 2021
The class is based upon contemporary dance explorations, which will draw on many workshops and practices Peter has developed in their choreography, such as “campaign for comfort”, “Is this it?”, “Questions only, no answers”, “Support being supported”, “rewrite my fire”, “reformulation” and “A felt sense of dance”. These practices all share a common thread of self exploration and ethical commitment to others. Through simple improvisation we examine and explore political, physical and ethical questions together. With a commitment to physical knowledge being equal to if not more essential than theoretical.
Intro Names and expectation
A lead session of improvisation and exploration, starting slow on the ground finishing with dancing, whilst introducing a few different practices during. Always do what you need, you can build and connect the different instructions, let them drop and or return to any instructurtion whenever you wish.
Afterwards we will reflect.
Order
- You are supported
- Ground and air
- Body supports body
- Campaign for comfort
- Material support
- Senses
- Listening
- Seeing
- Speed
- Group
- Distraction
- Attention (is this it?)
- Mutual aid
- Rhythm
- Joy
- Free
- Like it
- Music
- Questions
You are supported
Lying down support and be supported.
Where have you landed, where are you, where is your body and mood. Letting whatever brought you here to support you.
Focus on breathing allows it to support you and you to support it.
Ground and air
Supported by the ground.
Supported by the air.
Body supports body
Scanning the body, skin, muscle, bones, blood, nerves and organs supporting each other supporting you, supporting the ground.
Move a little to explore the support. Allowing the exploration to support you.
Finding structural support.
Pushing, pulling, extending, stretching, contracting and releasing to support you and allowing you to support your different body parts, the floor and environment.
Campaign for comfort
Support comfort, joy and pleasure move away from discomfort
React
Repeat
Loop and reverse.
Campaign for comfort, react, shift and alter.
Carry, be carried, cared for and care for, through your movements and presence.
Material support
Allowing all material to support and be supported by your movement, your presence.
Senses
Allow your senses and perception support and be supported.
Listening
Allowing all sounds support you and your practice.
The sounds you make contribute and support you. As do the sound you make and add to the space and practice.
Supporting through listening
Be supported through listening
Allow the sounds to carry, guide and challenge you.
Seeing
If you haven’t already, introduce a reverse blink into your exploration. Opening and closing your eyes quickly as if to take a snapshot of the space.
Allowing the visual to support your exploration.
Shapes, archtenture, light and shadow, color and positive and negative space.
Allowing the other bodies to support your movement as you support theirs.
Care and take care of the space and each other.
Speed
Allow varying temporalities support you
And support with different speeds
Slowing parts of your body to shift and move attention
Accelerate and increase velocity supporting and creating different accentuations in your support.
Follow, borrow and gift a speed
Group
Support and be supported by each other,
sharing and caring for what is shared
giving qualities, suggestion, shapes, movements
Supporting how we take care
Distraction
Supporting our attention, our distraction, our thought, our boredom
And allow it to support us
Allow the drifting of attention to be supporting, inclusive of external
Allow doubt and these question to reframe, shift and support our attention
Attention (is this it?)
Is this it?
Is this what you think it is?
Do you remember this feeling, this movement?
Is this how you remember it?
What story is this a part of?
What is its history?
If you shift and move and return a little, is this it, is this what you think it is?
When was the last time you were in this position?
Why were you here?
What has changed? What is the same?
Who is with you who is supporting you?
Where are your ancestors?
How are they embodied?
What feels good?
Is this the correct way to move?
How do you know to move this way?
If you were dancing with color what painting have you painted what picture are you tracing?
Is this what is supporting you?
Or is this?
Is this what you think is supporting you?
Mutual aid
This group is supporting you and you are supporting the group
It is a community of support, mutually benefiting each other
You movements and presence is mutual aid
Working together to support one and other
Flocking
You are flocking like birds, your movements are apart of a complex ecology of support each acting in mutual benefit of the other
Carrying, twisting and turning as a group you merge and float creating intricate patterns of support.
Rhythm
A shared rhythm supports this communities dance
With its suspension and release
Its pace and flow
It’s pause and counterpoints
Its swing and polyrhythmic play
You are contributing gifting and supporting with you rhythm
Joy
Support by dancing for joy gifting your joy supporting with your joy and support by borrowing joy be supporting by copying another’s joy
Dance for joy
Dance another’s joy
Free
Remember you can return drop and repeat anything anytime
Like it
The last support I will propose is to do what you like and like what you do
Music
Music : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThSpT7k2UhahKqxICLoJRXvJy6O_jtRP
Questions
No answer, only questions. Reflection practice
Rules
-Speak aloud
-No answers
-Only questions
Suggestions
-Don’t get too caught up trying to answer another.
-Allow your body to respond
-Ask people to repeat
-Ask to stay with a question
-Repeat anothers question
-You can make proposals with a question such as “could we dance together”
-Can I start with?-Can we do what we like and like what we do?
Monday 13th September 2021
The class is based upon contemporary dance explorations, which will draw on many workshops and practices Peter has developed in their choreography, such as “campaign for comfort”, “Is this it?”, “Questions only, no answers”, “Support being supported”, “rewrite my fire”, “reformulation” and “A felt sense of dance”. These practices all share a common thread of self exploration and ethical commitment to others. Through simple improvisation we examine and explore political, physical and ethical questions together. With a commitment to physical knowledge being equal to if not more essential than theoretical.
Intro Names and expectation
A lead session of improvisation and exploration, starting slow on the ground finishing with dancing, whilst introducing a few different practices during. Always do what you need, you can build and connect the different instructions, let them drop and or return to any instructurtion whenever you wish.
Afterwards we will reflect.
Lying down support and be supported.
Where have you landed, where are you, where is your body and mood. Letting whatever brought you here to support you.
Focus on breathing allows it to support you and you to support it.
Supported by the ground.
Supported by the air.
Scanning the body, skin, muscle, bones, blood, nerves and organs supporting each other supporting you, supporting the ground.
Move a little to explore the support. Allowing the exploration to support you.
Finding structural support.
Pushing, pulling, extending, stretching, contracting and releasing to support you and allowing you to support your different body parts, the floor and environment.
Support comfort, joy and pleasure move away from discomfort
React
Repeat
Loop and reverse.
Campaign for comfort, react, shift and alter.
Carry, be carried, cared for and care for, through your movements and presence.
Allowing all material to support and be supported by your moment, your presence.
Allow your senses and perception support and be supported.
Allowing all sounds support you and your practice.
The sounds you make contribute and support you. As do the sound you make and add to the space and practice.
Supporting through listening
Be supported through listening
Allow the sounds to carry, guide and challenge you.
If you haven’t already, introduce a reverse blink into your exploration. Opening and closing your eyes quickly as if to take a snapshot of the space.
Allowing the visual to support your exploration.
Shapes, archtenture, light and shadow, color and positive and negative space.
Allowing the other bodies to support your movement as you support theirs.
Care and take care of the space and each other.
Allow varying temporalities support you
And support with different speeds
Slowing parts of your body to shift and move attention
Accelerate and increase velocity supporting and creating different accentuations in you support.
Follow, borrow and gift a speed
Support and be supported by each other,
sharing and caring for what is shared
giving qualities, suggestion, shapes, movements
Supporting how we take care
Supporting our attention, our distraction, our thought, our boredom
And allow it to support us
Allow the drifting of attention to be supporting, inclusive of external
Allow doubt and these question to reframe, shift and support our attention
Is this it?
Is this what you think it is?
Do you remember this feeling, this movement?
Is this how you remember it?
What story is this a part of?
What is its history?
If you shift and move and return a little, is this it, is this what you think it is?
When was the last time you were in this position?
Why were you here?
What has changed? What is the same?
Who is with you who is supporting you?
Where are your ancestors?
How are they embodied?
What feels good?
Is this the correct way to move?
How do you know to move this way?
If you were dancing with color what painting have you painted what picture are you tracing?
Is this what is supporting you?
Or is this?
Is this what you think is supporting you?
This group is supporting you and you are supporting the group
It is a community of support, mutually benefiting each other
You movements and presence is mutual aid
Working together to support one and other
You are flocking like birds, your movements are apart of a complex ecology of support each acting in mutual benefit of the other
Carrying, twisting and turning as a group you merge and float creating intricate patterns of support.
A shared rhythm supports this communities dance
With its suspension and release
Its pace and flow
It’s pause and counterpoints
Its swing and polyrhythmic play
You are contributing gifting and supporting with you rhythm
Support by dancing for joy gifting your joy supporting with your joy and support by borrowing joy be supporting by copying another’s joy
Dance for joy
Dance another’s joy
Remember you can return drop and repeat anything anytime
The last support I will propose is to do what you like and like what you do
Music : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLThSpT7k2UhbjVUb9UZlqe5FR8D9HlVUF
No answer, only questions. Reflection practice
Rules
-Speak aloud
-No answers
-Only questions
Suggestions
-Don’t get too caught up trying to answer another.
-Allow your body to respond
-Ask people to repeat
-Ask to stay with a question
-Repeat anothers question
-You can make proposals with a question such as “could we dance together”
-Can I start with?
-Can we do what we like and like what we do?
Refferences
Litó Walkey
Myriam Van Imschoot
Rebecca Hilton
Sandra Noeth
Simon Vincenzi
Klara Utke Acs
Zoë Poluch
Susan Sentler
Simone de Beauvoir
– The Ethics of Ambiguity
Simon Critchley
– Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance
– The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments In Political Theology
Catherine Malabou
– Why the Need for a Philosophical Exploration of Anarchism Today? https://www.ici-berlin.org/events/catherine-malabou/ (Links to an external site.)
– Real Anarchism Has Never Been Philosophized: An Interview with Catherine Malabouhttps://youtu.be/pxHeRqphOzg (Links to an external site.)
Johnathan Burrows
Yoko Ono
Peter Liversbridge
John Cage
Merce Cunningham
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