Performance Projects

11/14/2011 Rooted company had a rehearsal. There is some words I underlined after the warm-up:

ARTICULATION

CENTRE

BE OPENED FOR CHANGES

CONNECTED

FLUID BODY

PERIPHERAL VISION

EXPLORE

BREATH

"ARTICULATE BODY IS INSIDE THE FLUID BODY" (Denise Rowe 2011)

2nd rehearsal with Denise Rowe

11/9/2011 we had the second rehearsal with Denise Rowe. Our attention was drawn to connection to the earth. We did some exercises for breathing deeply into the centre and breathing deeply out of it.

In the afternoon we went to the site.

It was the advantage to work with bare feet even if it was wet and cold. It helped me too feel the earth, to be drawn to one or another place... Admire the trees, feel the gentle breeze... all the surrounding nature...

Warm? Stay longer.... Cold? Move to another place... = Be opened for changes. It is good if sudden destructions happen. Allow them to motivate the changes...

Rooted. 1st rehearsal with Denise Rowe

First of all I would like to say 'Thank You' to the tutors of Coventry University for the opportunity given to us - work with choreographers for The Performance Projects. Another 'Thank You' I would like to say to the 'Rooted Dance Company' and their choreographer Denise Rowe for the amazing time spent together.

11/8/2011 we had the 1st rehearsal with Denise Rowe. It was challenging for me as I have never danced before African Dances. It was exploration of your own body. African dance mixed with environmental movements. We used improvisation in order to emerge something happen. We were told to be opened for unexpected changes.

Awake to imagery Awake at both ends

Fluidity around rhythm Landscape of sound

Following the inclinations The fullness of yourself

Articulate body Body as vessel

African Dance - non-stylised movement! Intimate with the present movement

A listening body Making space to emerge

Rhythm as support container

Every movement starts from the centre. Let the sound be inside you...

We finished our first rehearsal with the workshop where we used all the practices that we have learnt during that day. Weather report? Sun is shining inside me!!!!! :)

Rooted

LISTENLISTEN...

LISTEN...

LISTEN...

LISTEN...LISTEN...

LISTEN...

Rooted

Company preparations. Work with the scores.
LISTEN
to the sounds of the room
eyes closed in silence
What is the soundscape of this place?
the soundscape of the body
the breath, footfall, heartbeat
Warm up in silence - sounds of the room as a score
Open a door to let the sounds in from outside
Map a sound landscape of daily sounds
fridge, clock, wind, rain
Find categories of sound
ugly/beautiful uncomfortable/ soothing
Combine and use as score for movement

Improvisation with Katye Coe

• 5 minutes warming up in silence
• I found a partner and together we found a place to sit
• We read each other's poems. Discussed our choice.
• Using a timer one person was moving for 5 minutes witnessed by his partner. Changed roles.
• We did the same as before but this time the watching partner dropped in words, phrases or the whole of the moving partner's poem while he watched his partner moving. We changed the roles and then discussed both roles.
• Later we danced together for 5 minutes (through memory spoke words of either my or partner's poems as we were moving together).
• We grouped with another pair, witnessed them and affered supportive feedback.

REFLECTION:

Dropped in words were helpful in motivating myself for moving. For me it was better use the word as a starting point. Game with sound which had sense or without sence kept us concentrated during the task. In addition to that, my partner's poem was in spanish, so she dropped in words in ather language. This situation made this task more interesting.