Friday After Lunch

Who’s who?

Val, chair
Rach, Documenter
Patrycja, Leader
Ruth, Dramaturg

Some more What If’s’

Nom
What if we made a dance as a group
-Made a routine
-Danced on the street
-Drew a dance
-Played children games

Task: from what if we drew a dance
Into 2’s one person dancing one person drawing. Together decide style of dance. Ie: ballet or happy/sad. Both have to do it in your pair.
Drawing is about the feeling of what you are seeing. Not stick people or words. Any space. About 3 mins each. All group doing at same time. Discuss in pair and discuss in group.


Janusz
Task: from ‘standing still’ and ‘well known violin player’.
To test the watchers patience

Alex
Discussion of digression and conclusion for 1 min each.

Valentina
Spoke about spinning and delivering a text

Leah
Task. All walking around really slowly. Leah would run around everyone calling mum or dad and seeing what their response would be. 2 pictures, slow and fast. Who fits together. Slow motion movie; who disturbs or fits in.

Ellie
Task all had a chair. Split time into 6 minutes portions. Played the chair working as a group. In a circle. Spread out, four corners, on the stairs.
Ruth
What if each Monday is the first day of rehearsal.

Charlotte
SUPERGROUP.
I wonder what the supergroup of the dance world would look like.

Multitasking. Focus, pleasure, holding the frame, 10 minutes of multitasking.

We all read out our what if’s which will be logged by Charlotte at another time.

Practical dancing not embellishing
What do we do now.
Negotiation.
Tasks or PK’s task
You shouldn’t have to compromise
You can agree or disagree.
Let’s try Leah’s
I get help setting the video. I like the idea of writing the log of action.

All walk Butoh like in the space. Leah runs very fast from one person to the next shouting mummy daddy. Smiling. They begin to pick her up swing her around.Leah finds her real mum. Giggles. Talks with Alex. Go away. What do you want. Holds her ankles. Can I have a biscuit

Over there and over there and over there
Daddy x 4
Daddy?
Do you know what you want? No
Keep looking for what/
Clapping. Laughter
Felt different, did you believe that we were your mums and dads. In a way yes and no. Acting felt like it. Ruth felt like she was acting like leahs mum

VF- What would happen if we carried on walking?
PK- for me it was very spooky
AC- Leah who felt most like your Dad?
LBTY- I don’t know.
What would it be like without Ruth?
Nom would like to try it.
SS- Ruth’s presence makes me feel safe.

It didn’t feel like a nightmare for Leah. It felt weird. It was quite unusual. It was Yeh really different. Nom : are we going to do it again. It’s up to you Leah. Mum and Nom are put in the office.
CV agrees with Leah and group that Leah is going to decide when to stop the exercise

How many times did I tell you not to talk to strangers.
I don’t
Vale carries her for a long time. Can I play?
I wan to run around. Pleese I wanna run around. I won’t talk to strangers. I have to go

Leah. Different cause Nom and mum weren’t here.
Did you feel like an only child. Yes
CV - Is it possible to have children and their parents in performance.
SS - Can you remove the parental authority. Who’s responsible?
Ruth did a project co directing 6 boys and six adults.
Questions of Consent/authority/coercion

RBT- Every day I hand over the kids to school. Do I agree with it?

Scott – How can we Integrate this experience with forming a question.

Authority/ power is coming up a lot this week.

Educating . Evaluating. What point does it happen in a social artistic realm.

Question of authority. How it relates to Charlotte.
How to get something you want. (Scott sense of Charlotte)

SS- I clock something about the questions. How does the I function in the group.

VF- When to stop or when to carry on. How does the I act in that situation. I keep looking around to see what we do in the task. In every task I look around for a sort of…. Uncertainty. We are not even working towards being uncertain.

RBT- You are leading yourself within a frame that someone else has set up. Borrow, steal, try.

VF- How do you fit in a group???

CV- Inhibition or action? We are so much more aware because of this week??

SS- Meaning reveals itself in the doing of it.
Retrospect. Reflection.

What is actually happening in a group of people.

RBT- Self direction within a thing. How much do you dive into a task. Direction/self direction.

There’s so many questions

PK proposition for a final task of the week -

What if the sounds/music not the background or the accompany for something else? You might choose how you participate for 45 minutes. In any way you want to.

You can choose where to play.
Task takes a while to settle, to get going or to begin