I can pass on my craftsmanship to somebody but I can't pass on my intuition? It's personal isn't it? -Navigating the Unknown by Christopher Bannerman, Joshua Sofar, + Jane Watt (32)
CONSIDERING SENSES BEYOND SIGHT/SOUND + HOW THEY MIGHT MANIFEST IN THIS WORLD
(sometimes, this does not emerge until the practice).
Becoming a dancer as a relearning of embodiment is a process of deep knowing through sensations experienced as material and immaterial becomings. -Field Guide for Choreography as Research by Carol Brown
MERIÁN SOTO's MODAL PRACTICE + SOLO IMPROVISATIONAL PRACTICE (ADESOLA AKINLEYE's CHOREO-THINKING)
Before I found the words, hiking the horizontal was a physical gesture -Hiking the Horizontal by Liz Lerman (xi)
EMERGING QUESTION: WHAT ROLE DOES TIME PLAY IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS? WHAT IF CAPITALIST PRESSURES DID NOT EXIST?
Navigating the Unknown by Christopher Bannerman, Joshua Sofaer, Jane Watt leads me toward ideas about intuition and indigenous ways of thinking about intuition/"groundedness."
Movement and arrangement, embodiment and encounter. What happens when you curate from this position? -Assembling a Praxis: Choreographic Thinking and Curatorial Agency by Lauren O'Neal (13)
Merian Soto’s Statement on Modal Practice/Modes! informs the improvisational practice.
Disability Aesthetics by Tobin Siebers points to ways in which disability adds value (or, transforms value) in visual art forms.
Hiking the Horizontal by Liz Lerman points to ways in which dance can be enhanced through the engagement of other forms.
The goal is not to make up a dance! It is to use the problems choreographing raises... to ask myself where I stand on the notion I am exploring -Play by Dr. Adesola Akinleye
Practice as research emerges through both intellectual and corporeal labor -Field Guide for Choreography as Research by Carol Brown
Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua: I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on my past. This whakataukī or ‘proverb’ speaks to Māori perspectives of time, where the past, the present and the future are viewed as intertwined -Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua: ‘I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on my past’ by Lesley Rameka
CHOREO-THINKING (FROM PLAY BY ADESOLA AKINLEYE)