Retrospective Dance Writing 

Through annotating segments of video recordings from the creative process of SEI I make the inner experience of dance verbally explicit.  I describe states of knowing-being as I experience them during dance after the fact.

With the practice of retrospective dance writing, I explore and describe how the non-verbal experience of dance may establish contact between the everyday world and a meta-empirical source of being, life and meaning.

This writing practice uncovers to some extent what usually remains hidden and implicit in dance, happening on a rather subconscious level during the dance.

The transposition from the wordless inner realm of the dance to the realm of words intends to create a meaningful expression of altered states of knowing that are generated by the dance.

The writing is a complementary expression to the wordless language of the dance itself.

It is a supportive device to identify moments within the dance that have a potential for being interpreted as knowledge processes that arise from the in-between state between conscious and unconscious movement origination.

Watching the video recordings of the dance afterwards allows me to see from an outside point of view how specific moments of the dance communicate as a dance language.