Smith Graduate Seminar: Creative Process
Narrowing to the body, Narrowing to the space.
In this narrowing to expand and expansion to narrow much
information is revealed.
On my pursuit to localize and map the space more
specifically a specific “new” world opened up to me. I immediately fall into a
narrative of sorts, one that is slightly odd and slightly obvious. But the
foothold involving fear, furthering and the goat offers much potential and
provides an anchor for me to hang onto that is worth developing.
Pairing the detailed local choreography with the
localization of the space offers a new layer and brings my abstract formalness
to a place of porousness and permeability that I wasn’t expecting but gladly
welcome!
There are still some sticky moments in my use of space where
the map needs to be more clearly defined. I want to interrogate the centre and
really consider how and when I cross this valley. I also noticed in my
performance that now considering the space and falling into the easefulness of
the narrative some of the local choreography felt blurry. This is a habit or an edge I want to avoid.
I am also thrilled that in my placeness of space and adding
moments of breaking the tension that I have to go back to the localization of
me and really observe the moments before and after: the scream, the hello, and the
goat text. What is my permeability in these places? How does the space
collapse, how do I collapse in these moments?
In observing my rise and fall and in and out of the floor
motif, this repetition/action now has more meaning for me and it is not just a
change of level. I would like to consider each of these moments more.
My new sound choices are helping to broaden my understanding
of a previous comment – how can I help the audience to know what to feel when and
how do I shade the choreography in the peaks and valleys of the movement? The unintended ambient sound could also become
intentional and I am excited about crafting more distance and localization
through such use of sound.
I would have never imagined the telescoping effect that is occurring in
my attention during this process. Although it now seems obvious that
such an effect could take place, especially since my leaping point was
scale. I think I am just enjoying the fact that the telescoping is
bubbling from the bottom up and I am observing that I don't have to
exert so much control on the macro from the top down. My attention is
going to where it is needed, when it is needed and the legibility of my
colours are slowly being revealed.
Thank God!
