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Body Politics Gwyn’s perspective Gwyn’s perspective on Body Politics - written contribution with some images of me on a rugby field
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Inuitivetiming This is a video made for tier 11. It shows a glimps of how I imagine intuitive timing.
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Body politics (space, media, sexualization) The spatial arrangement of bodies, how they interact with each other, the influence of the media, science, and semi-science on bodies. What are the things that can undermine our trust in our own bodily intuitions? I also thought about my own security in asexuality.
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List of interests This week, we got to know each other's areas of interest and research. In this document, I have written down my own list, which I have narrowed down to three areas that I would currently like to work on, even within the collective.
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Time as an influence on our art This document contains a brief summary of my thoughts and the materials I have collected on the subject of time. For example: different time conceptions, time as an influence on art, external and internal time, intuitive and systematic mind and time as a dramaturgy.
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Mocking Time - The documentum film This is a Mockumentary film about how we related to time this week, and in the background you can see what ideas and practices we had. I also developed the dramaturgy of the film with a focus on time.
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Dimensions of time and movement This video captured during a lunch break what we held together with our collective.
This accidentally image shared by multiple layers of movement and time.
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Movement of fat This is a prop I am using to research movement of fat in the dancing body - for an ongoing work in progress that researches wobbling and jiggling of flesh - as undesirable movements- both literally (considered to be a vulnerable and intimate for the stage) but also addressing our movement and standing on the world - that prefers our boney qualities. From researching many materials and substances, filling a condom with water is the closest I got to my desired movement. This prop though is only used “backstage”, for inspiration of dancers for movement of a fat cell (adipose tissue).
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We only move to indicate the wind direction What is even “movement”? Do we ever invent anything, or can all movement be summarised as - indicating the direction of the wind, be it a literal wind, as in this video, or a proverbial wind- of our circumstances, geopolitics, century?
The words at the end of this video say: “all is testifying of the wind”
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Counting time A movement inspired by our week’s research on time and a poem by Estonian poet Contra - approx.translation:
I have a clock on my wall
Where a door opens every hour and a hand appears, showing time with the fingers
Afterwards it shows the middle finger
The time is going away
The movement reflection lingers in the tension between time that is “counted” and can “pass” and perceived as many separate units, and the time in the body that is more experienced as a process, that is eternal, an uneven flow. Can a river “pass” or go away? My week’s reflection is also on how dimension of time is experienced differently in different bodyparts. On the last day of our residency I offered an exploration- inspired by BMC (c) - on different perceptions of time in different parts of the body.
Those differences of time in a single body is currently also very present in the nature- with trees remembering the summer only in some parts of their branches.
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Gerald’s Dance | Dawns Gerald - 3 A modern interpretation of documentation of dancing in the 12th century in a church yard in Wales. Written in the style of a Welsh folk dance.
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Dawns Gerald | Gerald’s Dance - 2 A modern interpretation of documentation of dancing in the 12th century in a church yard in Wales. Written in the style of a Welsh folk dance. Part 2
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Dawns Gerald | Gerald’s Dance A modern interpretation of documentation of dancing in the 12th century in a church yard in Wales. Written in the style of a Welsh folk dance
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On Conditions A study in finding the conditions for the dance.
Angharad dances thinking about finding a rhythm and unraveling the structures.
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Time # Circle In this score I invite the participants to focus in turning in circle movements and the sensation in evoked in our body and mind. How does it change time? Feel free to reverse the tasks in order or try movements in a reversed way
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Script for a dance session and stage practice Script for a theatrical exercise based on group listening and individual and collective time.
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Look back_individual_6 A text — a fleeting reflection on the obstacles that shape me as an artist.
A text that gives no answers, only gently unveils thoughts never spoken, never trimmed.
A text that does not disguise itself as research.
A text that breathes in the personal, the fragile, the unfinished.
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Dream time / Real time / Crip Time Some written reflections about my dream time / real time morphing together in no linear order, and about my Deaf Crip Time.
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Ant_Individual_6 During the week we were exploring ant colonies and ecosystems. It made me think about how do we function as a collective. Ants and hierarchy was an integral inspiration for my movement material and made me question nonhierarchical communities.
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The Time Bender This score invites the mover to reflect on their relationship with speed through an embodied and guided practice. By slowing down the physical body it brings one’s attention to the variety of speeds around us. Through this practice we can become accutely aware of the details of everyday movement.
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Time WhatsApp screen shot on Score on time
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WHIRLING_EXCERCISE This practice aims to sharpen and alter our perception of time by entering a whirling state for an extended time period. (excercise length 20min)
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Doing the collective contribution I am doing the score of my collective, Spain. The duration of this practice is eleven minutes, I had to start with a neutral face and the next 5 minutes I had to built, only with my face, the expression of my scream (without sound). One minute with this expression, and the next five minutes I travelled towards my neutral face again. I didn’t feel any emocion, I only felt the muscles of my face.
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Movement Score Movement Score.
Collective contribution of Czech collective.
This week we were mostly interested in how defining or performing certain actions changes our perception of time. We worked with themes such as waiting, being lost in time, memory and listening for moments to arrive or depart. The score we chose is processual and does not lead to an conclusion.
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Back to basics Besides the physical tasks we did during the week, I was constantly trying to go deepee into my thoughts about the motivation behind being a dancer. I also took some time to research why dance is beneficial for the body biologically and physically - what science says about it.