Thoughts and Ideas
Creative
A line in an article about a sculpture in the ABQ Museum's sculpture garden, mentioned "grappling with creating a sense of movement from static materials". This led me to wonder, due to COVID 19, do you feel like your art is in a static place to all outward appearances? No forward progress? Much like physical technical progress in dance, during what looks like a long plateau before a new advancement in skills, much is likely going on underneath, the body reorganizing, the body and mind shifting, expanding, growing, making room for new information. Take inventory, ponder how you are changing and how this will contribute to your art form.
Exploratory
Creating a sense of movement from a static place. (Use a date in the park, a zoom call with a fellow dancer or your phone camera to evaluate results, not a mirror.) Take a static pose. Use different techniques, motivators or prompts to change your energy; i.e. Specific technical directions to yourself of expansion, retraction, counter tension, start distally, start proximally, focus on one body part, or use thoughts or emotions to create a feeling that emanates from you, or absorb a variety of music into yourself, or change your thoughts, your attention and visual focus from one thing to the next, see change. Notice what resonates for you to create visible energy from a static pose.
Quote
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." Albert Einstein
Escape and Inspiration
Visit the Albuquerque Museum's sculpture garden. Dare to dance there.
Head to the mountains and enjoy some snow.
Take in some Performance Art: January 16th at 6pm MT during a residency in quarantine from Taiko drummer Kristofer Bergstrom and our own contemporary dancer Minh Nguyen https://grandvision.secure.force.com/ticket/#/instances/a0F4p000004YXWpEAO
