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Wednesday 22 July 2009 - some notes
Started with an hour-long open improvisation, constrained to a 2 x 3m rectangle.
- Sound of sea shell (man-made) into Colin’s ear, whilst covering it. (something he came back to)
- Opening shoulder joint before pulling me down to floor (these kinds of repetitions were quite common) … the preparation of the body being explicit.
- clapping - we clapped each other, for rhythm, for irony …
- Developed a small repeatable phrase … walking and ball changes.
- White hero sequence - saving the black man/sidekick
- Versions of grasping each other’s upper arms/torsos to develop small contact type situations
- Lying down/sitting postures - hands on elbows etc, but not quite right
- Colin - US policeman/gangster (right at end)- ‘what’s that you’re talking about?’
- early on, Colin with eyes closed and pointing, and me circling him (walking backwards)
Later, we did some touch-based improvs (from work I did with Shaun McLeod many many years ago).
Colin: Is intimacy closeness without performance?
Talked about commitment to action.
Difference between play and ritual? (kids spinning versus Whirling Dervishes. Thinking about motivation? A desire to converge our ‘axis’ between AC and CE??
Eyes closed makes a difference?
Can we combine these two states - one is more playful, the other more ‘toned’ or contained (bound).
