Thoughts and Ideas 4/11
Conversation Starter
Water, wind, fire, sun and soil. Disrupters, interrupters, nurturers, providers, conduits. As any personality trait can be looked at from opposite angles, so too can the elements of nature. We can have too much of a good thing or too little. Discuss what it means to persevere in nature and human life in the face of life's great disruptions.
Creative Experiment
Pick an element of nature. Think about it's traits, and begin to move accordingly, alone. As you move consider your element's ability to create change, and affect another element. Consider your element's ability to affect nature through disruption or by providing new opportunity. If you have a group, play with this concept through improv by having the group members take on several roles. First interact in pairs, then in larger groupings of your choice. Work as teams, work solo. Discuss the events that develop. Can your discoveries be metaphors for other phenomenon in life?
Escape and Inspiration
Check out the recently published "Breadth of Bodies: Discussing Disability in Dance" a collection of 35 interviews of dance artists with disabilities spearheaded by our own Emmaly Wiederholt and Silva Laukkanen with illustrations by visual artist Liz Brent-Maldonado. https://www.abqdanceconnect.org/announcements
Visit the Gutiérrez Hubbell House, 6029 Isleta Blvd in southwest Albuquerque. This historic location frequently hosts festivals and are currently hosting the "Birth of La China Poblana" exhibit, ending April 16th. China Poblana is a style of dress worn by Mexican women for celebrations throughout Mexico and the United States with a rich history that might inspire you.
516Arts' "Art Meets History: Many worlds are born", looks at how the divergent histories of race, conflict, and colonialism in New Mexico inform our future. 516 Central SW.
Treat yourself to a video of Twyla Tharp on her first work with Baryshnikov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utk6lA-caqM . View the resulting work in Baryshnikov in America Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_aEbEqpLdc
