Thoughts and Ideas
Musing
"How are you?" The broadly accepted, programmed add-on to a general greetings. The expected scripted response? A bland response and counter posed "fine, how are your?" Often no answer appears, we keep walking. How is it that a question at once so simple and so complex became the lite banter of a greeting? Explore the answer. Imagining alternative and real responses could be a daydream of comedy, tragedy, or a dissertation on self analysis. Can we change the script to meet the occasion? With what might we replace the phrase?
Creative Experiment
Imagine a dramatic variety of circumstances and people, a list both ridiculous and normal, and ask the question through gesture, "how are you?". Vary the tone and gestures, vary the dynamic range, vary the focus and timing. Change roles and imagine movement responses to the variations you have created on "how are you?", from both the same imagined respondent, and different respondents. How different does a response feel with and without eye contact? Explore. If you have a group, make a "choir" for both groups, those asking and those responding. Follow any impulses that occur to you and see where it leads.
Escape and Inspiration
It seems a week for a road trip. El Rancho De Las Golondrinas is having their 49th Annual Harvest Festival Oct 3,4, 10-4pm. golondrinas.org Or the Taos Fall Arts Festival takes place thru Oct 3rd 10-6pm http://taosfallarts.com/
Eyes to the sky, Balloon Fiesta begins this weekend. https://balloonfiesta.com/FAQs
Visit an art gallery for inspiration, enjoy the dramatic and fanciful art of Jeff Warren at Gallery ABQ opening Friday in Hoffmantown https://www.thegalleryabq.com/events or see the latest work of portrait artist Natalie Voelker at Ricochet Gallery, 1102 Mountain Road NE also starting. Many more Galleries to chose from in the the First Friday ARTscrawl listed at https://artscrawlabq.org/wp/
Move, take part in the upcoming "Dance Beyond the Limits Festival" Oct 8-16. Information on ADC's website. https://abqdanceconnect.org/announcements/dance-beyond-the-limits-festival
Get inspired with Jacob's Pillow's new playlist of Hispanic and Latinx dance. https://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/playlists/hispanic-and-latinx-artists/#1 or listen to their podcasts of rare artist voices through time including the latest relating to the playlist at https://pillowvoices.org/
