The goal is not to make up a dance! It is to use the problems choreographing raises (the choreographic problems solving I am familiar with) to ask myself where I stand on the notion I am exploring (Akinleye 2023)
"the space carries the traces of its history like a magic slate keeps the imprints of the marks that were erased...is haunted by previous actions that have occurred there, actions which leave physical and atmospheric traces (real or imagined)," (Chamberlain 2023)
"Each time I move, I stretch myself out, trying this door, looking here looking there," (Ahmed 2006)
"By stretching, I learn to negotiate each curatorial situation anew," (O'Neal 2023)
- Staying/Leaving
- Deciding after continous adaptation which wonderings/wanderings to follow and which to leave (with traces)
- Deciding after continous adaptation which wonderings/wanderings to follow and which to leave (with traces)
"Choreographic thinking has an eddying quality to it. In a body of water, eddies often move opposite from the main current, casusing the water to split back over itself and produce new adjacent currents and mircrocurrents. Eddying is multidirectional, and at times counter directional. It involves stretching out, reaching toward, tumbling back, and rippling over," (O'Neil 2023)
- Wondering/Wandering
- Move through *ballet format/prompts with playlist
- Allow movement to guide/spark exploration of inquiry
- Follow trails/findings
- Move through *ballet format/prompts with playlist
"If your mind wanders, follow; if your moving wanders, follow. Always keep following and tracking, noticing, attending," (Bacon 2023)
"The goal of the task is to create/design a space to move through. It is that moving through it that reveals what elements of my framework mean to me beyond a neat coming together of theoretical ideas," (Akinleye 2023)
- Curating
- Set intentional but adaptable *ballet practice: e.g. pre-choreographed? improv? baggy/loose? scored?
- Curate playlist for *ballet exploration dependent on format above
- Curate playlist for *ballet exploration dependent on format above
- Set intentional but adaptable *ballet practice: e.g. pre-choreographed? improv? baggy/loose? scored?
What is exciting/strange about this inquiry?
What can be made strange?
"Art Practice as Eco-System Questionnaire"
- How to translate inquiry into exercises/activities designing for others to choreo-think and continue own exploration
- Craft *ballet session to articulate exploration
Objects
- Timed making: make somthing without pausing to jump start creative body/brain/spirit
Choose a theme and collect sounds for *ballet exploration
"I am constructing ‘thinking’ within an embodied perspective, and refuting a mind-body divide. I call this ‘choreo-thinking’. I begin by dispatching the Spector of ‘Cogito ergo sum’ by using the concept of Dewey’s mind-full-body. From the static of sitting and writing I move to liberate thinking into the world of doing," (Akinleye 2023)
*ballet:
- a body/emotion/mind-set
- not a fixed form
- an engagment with a fluid historical framework
- an exploration of humanness
"if the body is in place the communication channels are very thick, very big and lots of things happen. But what happens if you pick up a piece of paper or a book that a choreographer has shared some ideas in? How do you understand that material?" (DeLahunta 2023)