Thoughts and Ideas
ConverSation Starter
The art of observation through another practice. This weekend I met a group of dancers online and we agreed to take turns facilitating a session, activity not limited to dance, and then discuss the experience. That day the facilitator chose gesture drawing. What might you choose and why? Are you open to experiment outside of your specialty?
Creative Experiment
Gesture drawing. Meet with an even number of artists online. assign partners and take turns using a timer. Select three movement words and have one partner hold a pose based on the first movement word for 90 seconds. Quickly sketch the body gesture. Repeat for a set of three sketches and change partners to repeat, attempting the same three poses your partner used. As you think through the process, thoughts, posing, sketching, reflect on the relationships you discover, reflect on you awareness or lack of awareness to connections you hadn't noticed in one stage or another of the process; angles, distances, directions, feelings, spaces created. Notice what you put in, what you left out. What are the lines that tell the story? What emerges in your discussion? Follow up with an movement improv based on the chosen movement words and poses.
Quote: "Small gestures can have a big impact" Julianna Margulies
Escape and Inspiration
Through reading about dance at Stance on Dance. I started to suggest one article but found so many thought provoking choices that I suggest you explore.
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