Monday, June 15, 2009

On PART I



Part I:
I understand the technique as tool for bulding up a structure, a system that will establish the conditions through which one will inhabit the body, in the first place, and the city, secondarily.
My feeling is to work with a sequence of physical warm ups in a cumulative structure within the three days and to focus on some elements we will want to bring to the regions.
Sara, this may be something the two of us can put together on the 23rd eve?
For sure they should be Simple and encompass elements that may help us to observe and interfere in the experience off the city, most specifically open up a physical availability. It is like experience walking within ones own body.
Start sited, do shoulders, articulatory acknowledgment-
Aim for a focus on presence- the space the body occupies-
the simplicity of streching - going up and down pulling the feets to the ground. weight and counter weight.
Duration-I am thinking about Cunningham and how he states that the choreographic phrase is held on relations of duration, and not on musical rhythm- and how duration is essential for meaning and conceiving of a city.
Find the moments of suspension without blocking the flow of the movement (action/reaction).
I have some sequence of arms rotations with leg stretching that I really like.
After basic body warm ups we should build on this as the moment of the private- when the city expresses itself within the private- the personal, the secret, the expectations, the memories.

I suggest that when we leave we should already leave within a proposition- we don’t loose time getting to the site, but the moment of dislocation is already carefully planned as a task.
Only when we get to the zone of the day we’d than split into the couples for the official Part II exercises.

In relation to Augusto Boal’s exercise I’ve mentioned, he usually works with memory spaces, but we can play with the memories (and preconceptions) of Zagreb.

Another possibility is to exchange the maps we all arrived with- so, each one would have to go for a walk following the other's notes and maps to be guided.
exchange of instructions—but risk to get lost.

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