Thoughts and Ideas 10/31
CONVERSATION Starter
Image Clusters. Context. Visualize one image, a yellow finch on a branch. Now add an unrelated image, a school house with children playing. Now add a third unrelated image, a chemical plant. Notice how your thoughts changed, were influenced by the presence of each extra item. What other senses can skew your perspective, emotions, and thus reactions? Talk about a memory where you had a strong reaction. Analyze which clusters; sensory, emotional, memory, may have influenced the main event. Discuss ways to use this idea in creating performance.
Exploratory
Create and imagine an image cluster with dance. Use two or more dancers. Pull out your dancer's toolbox. Work with either the same choreography, but with different imagery, timing, emotion, etc,... or varied improv responses to a central subject... or put completely different unrelated movement sequences side by side and observe what happens. Dare to explore and discuss.
Escape and Inspiration
Dance Film: Keshet Dance and Center for the Arts will be hosting a free screening of an upcoming NMPBS Documentary disability dance film "Move Me" Nov. 3rd. at 6pm, followed by a Mixed Ability/Adaptive Dance Workshop. 4121 Cutler Ave. NE.The Documentary premieres on PBS Nov. 7th.
Dance: Join 22 dancers from the Maple Street Dance Space community this evening, Halloween, for, "A Murder of Crows", free in Hyder park, 5:30.
Haunted House? The Scariest Place on Earth, hosted by Warrior Boxing Club and students 7-11pm tonight, 1201 San Mateo Blvd SE. $15.
Film Festival: Dark Red Horror Film Festival at the Guild Cinema, 3405 Central Ave. NE, 4-10pm, tonight. $15 https://www.darkredhorror.com/
Art: Gallery With a Cause at the NM Cancer Center 4901 Lang Ave. NEpresents 'Anniversary Exhibition No 2', until Nov. 18.
Art: The Sanitary Tortilla Factory at 401 Second St. SW is showing "Happy Time/Doomsday Time by Meggan Gould from Nov 4-25.
Art: N4th Theater and Gallery, 4901 Fourth St NW, will host "Bright Spaces, Welcome Spaces; A Celebration of Queer & Trans Joy" Nov. 4 through Dec. 30
Circus arts: Popejoy presents "Zephyr: A Whirlwind of Circus" Cirque Mechanics, Nov 4th 7:30 https://www.popejoypresents.com/events/detail/cirque-mechanics-zephyr
Theater: N4th "Quarantine: Harvest Ball" last show tonight. https://www.northfourthnm.org/n4th-theater. Dance party to follow.
Podcast: Listenn to Liz Lehrman's podcast " The Body as Radical Canvas", https://pillowvoices.org/episodes/the-body-as-radical-canvas-liz-lerman
Ahead in November: Keshet Arts Premiere 'Hevel' Nov. 19, and NM Ballet's Nutcracker Thanksgiving Weekend.
