In DUE, I continue to work from the intermediary zone of awareness between conscious choice making based on written movement materials and intuitively emerging movement. Additionaly, I work with the dynamic tension field between gravity (related to concentric forces) and levity (related to peripheral forces).
As in SEI, I continue to search for progressively deeper sources of movement origination. The deeper I enter the unknown depths of my body, the subtler these sources become. They appear to be of such a subtle nature that it becomes increasingly difficult to discern, whether they originate from a corporeal sensation, or whether they come from some kind of zone of being that precedes or causes corporeal sensation. A place of being that lives at the same time underneath as well as far beyond the borders of the skin of my physical body.
From the state I find myself after performing SEI, I integrated first movement experiments for DUE into an improvised sequence in silence.
I recorded this sequence and sent the video to Giuliano Bracci who used it as a departure point for a new composition.
Additional motives that I worked with are:
- engaging and disengaging from the body
- searching an inner communicative magnetism between different layers of the experience of self moving
- infinity loops and elliptical curving in the joints
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While my left foot rotates inwards, my right arm initiates a rotation of the torso to the right. Another series of loops start from above my head and passes through my body in smaller sizes. The orientation of the spine adapts to the unfolding of the momentum of loops.
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I choose to make a step to the side, to exit the motifs of the loops.
00:55 – 1:06
I gather my limbs back to the central vertical axis and my body chooses to unfold in a gesture of reverence.
1:06 – 1:14
I disengage from this gesture, but before leaving it, I enter into it one more time.
While entering this gesture for the second time, I match my choice with the unconscious choice of the body. I consciously give consent to the unconscious choice of my body to signal reverence.
00:00 – 00:07
Finding the edge of the periphery of my body in a situation suspended between gravity and levity
00:07 – 00:26
Pushing the floor against gravity, I expand the upper edge of my body with my right hand.
While tracing the edge of an elliptical curve back downwards to the ground, I change the orientation of the axis of my spine and initiate horizontal infinty loops through my arms extended outwards. The two sides of an infinity loop meet in the center of my chest.
By pressing the weight of my body deeper into the ground, I thicken the texture of the horizonal loops.
I set off to somewhere.
My right arm catches an entry into a curve sliding downwards. I enter this downwards curve, I slightly melt my weight into it, towards gravity. In the meantime, my left foot made the choice to move onwards and I exit the curve.
I step sidways, to accommodate the rest of my body to the choice of my arms to catch two streams of movement towards levity.
I find myself in an elevated position. My arms extend outwards, diagonally upwards.
My weight is distributed between the two balls of my feet.
I shift the weight forward on to the left ball of my foot. My right foot chooses to close the gap. My arms stay where they are.
I taste the state of being suspended.
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The momentum of a loop carries my body to the right side. It bends my torso sideways.
00:02 – 00:11
I choose to move in the opposite direction and I insert a reference to "a dance phrase articulated in the force field... 00:18 - 00:24
0:11 – 00:17
I let go of the choreographic reference and invite my body to invent a path that deviates from it.
00:17 – 00:27
I disengage from this situation ever so slightly, to re-enter it immediately before the potentials it carries in itself have disappeared. I choose to open my body more into this situation. To land in it, to taste its edges, to bring it further towards a new situation.