Thoughts and Ideas
Conversation Starter
Look inside yourself. Do you detect changes from the last twelve months? In what ways do you need to emerge and leave behind negative changes, in what ways did you discover new ways of thinking that you want to keep? Did you learn to know yourself more? Talk to one another. Reveal the insecurities you want to shed, marvel at the discoveries that have enlightened you. Find common places. Experience re-emergence together.
Creative Experiment
Find an object/place, physical or imaginary, for an anchor. 1. Adapt a movement phrase that can be done in -contact to that anchor, -within a close proximity to the anchor, -slowly increasing the range from the anchor. Explore how you can change the movements in the phrase to accommodate your circumstance. Notice what you keep, what you discard, what you expand or shrink. Repeat the exercise emphasizing a relationship to the anchor, of your own invention. How does the movement change? Repeat the exercise leaving the anchor behind without looking back finding a new point of view, something else to move toward.
Escape and Inspiration
Workshops continue this week at "The Inclusive Performance Festival" including, but not limited to - "Danceability Workshop" with Emmaly Wiederholt and Tonya Rivera and "Indigenous Dance Workshop" with guest artist of Dancing Earth. http://www.dandeliondancetheater.org/inclusive-performance-festival/
The Compass Roses Maps projects by Artists of ABQ can be seen at the South Broadway Cultural Center. With guilt for only including two, here are two moving examples of what you might see. https://www.laurenvcoons.com/las-l%C3%A1grimas-del-pueblo and https://compassroses.art/lungers-row/
Explore the stories in Underland by Robert MacFarlane or Overstory by Richard Powers for an eye opening look at time, for an introduction to the wonders below ground and/or the lives of trees and activists.
Opening this weekend "Listen" a new work by Donna Jewell, running through May 8th. Contact Studio Sway if interested in attending. Audiences of only 8.
Create your own adventure. Invent a scavenger hunt around town with fellow dancers discovering new places; parks, galleries, murals, theaters, artworks. Make it as complicated or as simple as suits you. Clues optional. Film a dance move at each site to prove you were there or snap a pic. Have the event culminate in a picnic location and share your adventure stories.
