28th Nov 2007
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20th Nov 2007
localstwang (2005)
Dancers: Jessie Gold and Nancy Garcia
at Art SF, San Francisco, December 2005
at Dance Theater Workshop, January 2006
Dancers: Jessie Gold and Nancy Garcia
at Art SF, San Francisco, December 2005
at Dance Theater Workshop, January 2006
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14th Nov 2007
Movement score based on workshop exercise given by Chrysa Parkinson at Janet Panetta’s studio (10/30/2007):
Transition from tense facial expression, to tense facial expression, smoothly and continuously so that I may stand in front of you and notice the slow shift between each facial expression. I will mimic you as best I can.
You will walk forward slowly as you do this.
Keep the rest of your body entirely relaxed.
We’ll switch roles once we can no longer continue to travel in the space (because of a wall or whatever). Meaning, you’ll walk backward and I’ll walk forward. This time around, you’ll mimic me.
This exercise was shared with my Performing Technology classmates at NYU’s ITP graduate program, as a response to an assignment asking us to “prepare a set of simple Dada ‘improvisation’ rules using a communications technology.” We were also asked to “hand these rules to one other person,” and that other person and I performed the structured improvisation for the class.
I wasn’t so interested in using technology to communicate or create the rule set. I was more interested in getting my classmates to get up and move around. The class focuses on the performative implications of technology, but hardly requires us to use the main instrument of mobilization that we all have in common: our bodies.
Movement score based on workshop exercise given by Chrysa Parkinson at Janet Panetta’s studio (10/30/2007):
Transition from tense facial expression, to tense facial expression, smoothly and continuously so that I may stand in front of you and notice the slow shift between each facial expression. I will mimic you as best I can.
You will walk forward slowly as you do this.
Keep the rest of your body entirely relaxed.
We’ll switch roles once we can no longer continue to travel in the space (because of a wall or whatever). Meaning, you’ll walk backward and I’ll walk forward. This time around, you’ll mimic me.
This exercise was shared with my Performing Technology classmates at NYU’s ITP graduate program, as a response to an assignment asking us to “prepare a set of simple Dada ‘improvisation’ rules using a communications technology.” We were also asked to “hand these rules to one other person,” and that other person and I performed the structured improvisation for the class.
I wasn’t so interested in using technology to communicate or create the rule set. I was more interested in getting my classmates to get up and move around. The class focuses on the performative implications of technology, but hardly requires us to use the main instrument of mobilization that we all have in common: our bodies.
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02nd Nov 2007
Faustin Linyekula
Very interesting article by Brenda Dixon Gottschild about artist Faustin Linyekula.
Available via Dance Theater Workshop’s website. DTW, in association with BRIC Arts | Media | Brooklyn, is presenting his new work “Festival of Lies” from November 14 - 17.
Very interesting article by Brenda Dixon Gottschild about artist Faustin Linyekula.
Available via Dance Theater Workshop’s website. DTW, in association with BRIC Arts | Media | Brooklyn, is presenting his new work “Festival of Lies” from November 14 - 17.
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