A Project Proposal: Interior Details

I am interested in articulating subtle interior details so that I may
 broaden my exterior’s edge. This question and subsequent inquiry will
challenge me both as a choreographer and a performer.

I am approaching subtlety through the inquiry of the mirco scale. By
investigating the question “what is the micro scale?” I hope to make
apparent the intention within specific movement locale. Through the use
of such specified intention(s) I am interested in focusing on crafting
the local choreography, the choreography of the body itself. Can the
play of plasticity and breath within the body become a sub-dance to
support the exterior frame?

By paying attention to subtlety and differentiation I hope to access a
 new range of compositional choices. I am excited by the possibility of
expanding my path of travel within the body (and in turn through the
space) by constructing a detailed map of movement initiations and to
re-consider the use of phrasing from a more minute perspective.

I will also challenge my choreographic mind and performative self by
devising multiple micro scores that are performed in density or with
simplistic sparsity positioned intentionally within the work.  Through
this research, I ultimately want to challenge my permeability as a
performer and find new uncharted ground in my use of tone and control.

As a choreographer I gravitate to the macro structure and large
compositional strokes of my creative work. Through the scope of the
performance project I aim to address this edge and will strive to work
in a more simplistic manner. I want to pare back on my go to
compositional seductions, such as the use of concept as main
choreographic driver, or the use of thrust and power in my movement
invention. By avoiding such former tendencies I hope to find greater
nuance within clear intentions that will affect the micro scale of my
compositional choices, this in turn will feed and create the yet to be
determined macro structure of this new solo work.

Failing Resliency

 
2nd Year! I continue to dig, reflect and interrogate... and as I do so I am failing at my own assignments.   Luckily some of my work has paid off and I can more easily track and identify my creative habits now. Moving forward my challenge is to be in relationship with such familiar paths and try to veer from my typical approach. 

I easily gravitate to the macro structure and I am easily distracted by the thrust of my power. I search for resiliency and have managed to keep my pelvis in a perfectly horizontal plane. I lost my swing, buoyancy and hang on to the levity of my upper body as a disguise. 

I need to go back into the lab and hit re-set.  How can I twist my habits on their edge to access a new road? Further research is needed.

ps- Thanks to Cory Bowles for his supportive tunes, playing in the video is a piece original composed for SiNS dance in the work "Hungry Like the Wolf"