February 16, 2017:
Bebe, Michelle, Darrell resonant rebounding impossible action interrupting the bloom touch responsive and touch unresponsive (maybe doesn’t go with the story)
Darrell warmup cue – energy, form or shape
brothers
-shelf of lower arm/elbow sustain/suspend
soul of donny hathaway
-R&B bass -literalness of sound/musicality
outward rhythm, distal, poke – darrel, michelle vs. inward/core (bebe)
-possible when sonic environment is dense -hold it in to not battle
softness/sweetness cut by rhythm
swiftness, trusting self and other awareness of dual rising which gives way to double curves
tangle/tango + classicism pieta – arrangement of archetypes shapes of power and yield surrender
2 eye intentions
-downward cast when in contact -when apart, beyond space and body – drifting focus eyes can create a torque, architecture
-Ecstasy of Saint Teresa -the torque even with distance creates a tension/pull
alchemy of directness w/ softness earning the release
waking up out of sentimentality
w/ mundane signals or now we go…direct
let it be obvious – so it registers
-it can be the obvious
shift the architecture of the bass/lower body…let the weight be at risk am i saying what i’m doing as i’m doing? the other is doing and i can do in relationship, even if not touching
-carving around changing it just so like “no, it’s this way” in a quick moment
February 18, 2017:
distilling the elements
-the technique is the expression/ it’s not expressive ~how we’re not the sentimentality
brothers – parallel relationship
-not a romantic love -contact improv finger exercise -letting the eyes see out
angie – gestural emptiness into the fullness of the body
-drawing the room -take gesture into proximal joints
bloom happens in the pauses at top/bottom of breath
FINDING TRIO/DUO-SOLO RELATIONSHIPS angie/michelle duo
-what are you wearing -tracking the space in a parallel way -angie as instigator -space between us, figuring out
michelle solo -invisible -i’m still dancing but i’m hidden, subdued
Darrell Michelle to David Lang
-suspend, curve -insert – noticing where a bloom might happen w/ another body and ordering another 2ming around it -body is “band,” instrument – not playing on top of them, but the technique of musicians in improving and composing -tautness of the body, poke (R&B the ends), Greek tragedy/Martha Graham or Michael Jackson -Darrell has physical radiant, sheen -D&M curve the air in and around, not fast -s2llness or back to core -syntactical grammar of phrasing (arresting or inhibiting of something (e.g. flow) so the relationship becomes visible) -Angie is flocking and occasionally I can register that.
Michelle / Angie flock
-A’s is very literal flock, direct attention, flocking M’s weight -M’s blooms around to another 2ming
-R&B space -resonant from Darrell/Michelle duet -shadow/echo…aroma, perfume of Angie’s choices, space, direction
WHAT WE DID IN TWO DAYS
- Donny Looping
- Angie starting in silence, D enters 2. Starting with Brothers from S.Portland space
- like beginning of Verge between Ted and Darrell 3. Head to head to sequence, into jump, front to back and up 4. Impossible change of weight 5. L shape for D&M in David Lang score
- Greek score b. Angie Flocking
- sometimes it undoes and A&D are together…TRIANGULATION c. D leaves, A&M continue, M starts to flock A