Thursday, February 7, 2013

Tenderness, Nobility and Tools

Here I am embarking on my usual procrastination strategy.... fill the blog!


Although lucky for me I am not procrastinating on anything academic, in fact I wish I could bend time for a momentarily pause in all this research of duration, so that in fact I could sort out and digest the many concepts in my presence. I dodge the big G word, G.R.A.N.T -wishing that I can hold my time for reflection more closely and telescoped in and out to many forms, not crammed into this one posting.

My workshop door is open and I see a million tools I could pick up and sharpen, hold, discover, re-order/organize, craft to make something new. This thought is invigorating and overwhelming.


A sun dial  aligned with Halifax time and not daylight savings adjustments.

The moment of attention is by far the most important tool. This is the one I am currently picking up, dropping, hanging on to, and noting to come back to. It is not repetition but a stretch of time, time expanded (although extremely dense) in order to begin to gain the capacity to simply notice.

The delicate task of looking and not overdoing is a difficult one and I am reminded of the tenderness concept.  I have the utmost reverence for all the gifts of research around me, I am floored every day with the questions that are presented and that I get to ask. I feel simultaneously noble and a hot mess in my quest to learn, to face, to interrogate.

duration, non-eraser, risky weight, finishing, dominant/sub-dominate, hot mess, muscle/bone/fascia, go to the place you want to dance, subordinate, merge and separate in a parallel universe. These are my tools to discover.....

A hot mess of ideas in the studio and two very willing bodies on the quest.

Arranging things in Choreography and Design with my colleagues and Chris Aiken!



Monday, February 4, 2013

Research in the Studio

an idea in research: Parallel Universe/Merge and Separate


Sunday, February 3, 2013

A new publication in the making

Hmmm... it seems a new cross border publication is waiting to be made:
 the improvisor's gossip gazette for conceptual wars. 

Looks like I have a new project in my hands connecting east, west and south. Hope I don't split myself apart on this one!! :)