Day 20 Written up by Ruth

Photographs…

Charlotte.

60 Documentary Photographs from the four weeks… laid out on the floor…

Instructions: Set a solo task for another person by choosing one image to give them and then set them a task in relationship to the photograph…


Tasks

Patritzia : Play like Leah and maybe become her.. be in her head for a moment – set by ellen

Lyndsey : try to imagine what Charlotte and scott were seeing through the camera lens … responding to Scotts face…. Set by PK

Scott – go for it- set by Alex –I was where is my woice I can ghhutrying to make some time and space… I thought might be some sound

Alex – either with sound or an image/ recreate the picture of nom sleeping – set by Ellie – concentrated on her right hand…

Wendy – set by Val to go through the alphabet in words and talk in response to the picture

Ellen – set by Liz – do little pictures of my kicking chair dance and then reverse it

Liz – from wendy – told me to pick any picture I like and do first thing that came into my head/body

Val – from Darren – put it into a funeral situation..

Ellie – from Lydsey .. re intepret the scene that the line up was looking at…

Darren – from charlotte. Do something from test run in a minute…

Charlotte –from ruth .. how would I start to make a new show..

Ruth – Scott …. Imagine the photo a still from the first night of a show… discuss production values and content..


Discussion.


Ellen : makes a difference,,,,, cos someone picking a picture for you…
CV we could have chosen 101 many different ways of working on this..

MINI DISK

What should we set up… what we’ve got on mini disk is ….
Discussions/ fragments of conversations/odd bits of text…
Could start with put sound on … one/two people in the space…

TASK
Performers can say end….. pause…. repeat…….
Allow for different configurations of people in the space…
Go into space then sound comes on….





How d you get form the question to the task?? Ha ha ha ha ha. Pause. Reduce. Reduce.
Can I just have this question…what is the total value about the sum of parts , about this notion of total value, of the piece that involves on than one person. Something about the sum of the parts really, what’s the total total value total value the total value the total value something about the sum of the parts and I would like to make a new woman OF ME OUT OF THE THINGS I SAY.
Youth is its own performance and nothing belongs to us noone even if we sit in motorway restaurants. Another quote was people bvarely feel the need for ules . You are a new woman. Another quote I’d like to ameet nother woman aou to fht ethings that I say . I’d like to meet a new person out of the things that I say. A new woman of me out the things yhat I say.
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CV

Go round … share a thought

Yes and no
I appreciated having a bit of control over events… raise the possibility in the individual express their opinion and it would have the affect…
People were attuned to pause… there were discernable affects… listening to each other and rules and roles

We had a constant ie a person and sound…
Because its sonic the ac of listening becomes more pronounced…

I thought it was far more interesting solutions occurring which I thought were beautiful and different… maybe it was because of the listening.. and we tried much smaller things it was completely different for me not grabbing back to dancing stuff for myself
For me it was a more evocative and visual space

I found it curious being there for so long.. but I enjoyed it and feeding off whats happening and whats responding.. I do it with music but interesting to do it with work.. I enjoyed latching on to particular repeats.. so that things began to form… I enjoyed process of choreography through sound but I think the text made a big difference..
Time loops, the place that people aren’t in and what sound that might be how you can visually transform somebody into a sound by pointing ..
Loved the potato becoming a drum kit – strange solutions…
I had an interesting perspective cos started off by the camera… everything in the space was quite calm and steady and words directed out but from where I am could see charlotte moving and working very fast… and she was operating continuously at that speed
The space and the repetition …. I was confused with the rules at the beginning.. but it became clearer..ie outside calling rules…
That evolved as it went not sure we decided that before
I the space was really big and it felt big and I don’t know if its because of the sound/pause but it felt big.. it was harder to place myself in the space than before..
The syche affects that… cos it makes it feel more spacious…
I found something I was intrigued how I am going to react to my voice.. its something interesting to play with your own voice and own words.. because of playing with yourself from the past.. double ping pong game… the melody of it processing it… and how different people recording and re looping it editing it, time frames sliding on top of each other making a dialogue of myself and choose
I quite enjoyed those confusions about where sound coming from .
In performance terms the roles of you are a lx designer, a dancer, choreographer are not in your control… cos often its non of your business about what else or how else things are being created.. this gives us the idea that I can have a view……
Live music in performance raises those questions about sound and where it comes from… and it starts to mesh all the forms together cos you ant take those things for granted…
I was interested in how much it changed the space.. paying attention to aural information opened up the space for me… the business of the space felt a lot more paired down… something about the care with which people listened and paid attention to the space.. it felt tentative at first but I was surprised at the layering that built up individually and from outside wondering about what info people taking into the space with them… were they responding to word rhythm,..
I felt also that you could only join in with somebody you couldn’t start something with somebody you had to process sound first then work out how to join in…
Curiously some of the pauses served to clear the space…
Were you … responding to your recordings…
I was looping or pausing or responding to sounds I’d recorded… like a live format or loop…heightens the mini or maxi version
Felt self conscious about hearing my voice… but after that.. ~I felt a sense of collective agreement a sense of when something was working
Like a group of people was beginning to sing or play the same song…
That there was a larger phrasing..
The word sustain changed something… I … felt that it carried on and things were meant…
Im interested in when people say something and mean it.. how do we know why do we listen to somebody
Why do you listen to someone singing a sone how do you know they mean it..
I felt you menat it that it was directorial and that it was accepted..
Yes it interesting when a voice leads and its followed
What does sustain mean …
Please continue, or its pleasing me, a desire for something to remain or sustain..
It was a very usefrul exercise in paying attention andlistening cos I was aware that if I got too lost in what I was doing .. I stopped listening.. it was clear about listening in the space whats informing what you are doing…




Find three bits of video …

Instruction/Task

No sound …….
Make a sound track to a silent video ………


Blogs text

Read out individually and listen

End

Charlotte.. thanks to everyone been very interesting, useful, challenging,

Liz – thanks for inviting me so often in performance you get pigeon-holed and don’t often get a chance to be involved in exploration

Ellen – Yes I don’t get a chance to be involved in these sort of processes, often get pigeon-holed, wonderful to meet all the lovely dancers

Darren – I’ve started a process of mulching to mind me so thank you

Scott – yes thanks… a space cultivated to formulate questions rather than an assumption that this should be producing something, feel safe to try shit on and get feedback in a nascent way without great expectations

Lyndsey – at the beginning of the week I said that I wanted to re- engage with a physically expressive self – and what I’ve discovered is that I know virtually nothing and Im still interested

Ellen – at times it was exhilarating to be let loose in these two hour sessions, that hasn’t happened for a long time in my life…

Charlotte.. to some extent this gathering was political in that we exist in the current climate of being judged by what we produce.... ..
I think we’ve reached some kind of understanding of each other and there is power in numbers
So even if its not curated by my company I’d like to approach the arts council with the idea of having an annual type gathering … between us there is a couple of hundred years of experience

Scot – I’d be interested to keep mixing it up ie with nom/leah .. so that its representative in a broad sense not just choreographers…

Charlotte … if we organise it again there are questions about space.. where would we do it … rural/away/ different spaces.. and if we did it again what would we change…