Skript 060313: While sitting at my dining room table, Vida Midgelow (UK)
there
is a dance in me, deep in my torso. … if i close my eyes and listen
to her, sense the potential of her she is pulsing. like an ongoing, multi-centred gathering of gely balls, jelly balls, she is wiggling. i need
to pause, to be with her.
oh
my, an image of her as frog spawn... a jelly mass, this wiggling inside
me... she is moving inside, i imagine myself doing this frog spawn
dance. trying to scoop her up, she slips from my grasp. the belly as
splat upon the floor.
jiggle
wiggle across the floor - gathering myself into a jelly mould mold old
told. I told you to sit up. the jellied spawn tries to still. be still.
not poss ib le....... s t i l l. gap.
My
hand hovers over the keyboard........ the pressure of the key. i press
it slowly but the run of the letter out-does my efforts and just
stayssssssssssssss then runnnnnnnnnnnnnnnns on. What would it be to
stay still while running on?
I try to imagine it, to feel myself dancing
that very staying and running... there is a horrid tension in the
counterpoint. i feel it. but if i drop the running-on into the smallest
moment/movement i start to find an answer... an energy, light rapid,
fleet shooting throughout every part of my self whilst i sit - staying
while runnnnnning.
run,
run, run. i want to feel the extension of the legs, reaching out,
opening my pelvis, the open space between legs taking me forward.
forward to nothing. the pure rush of the very act pulsing. in me.
sensing the possibilities of running on while staying...
Authored by Vida Midgelow
The writings in this blog arise from the micro-installation Skript: a one to one experience in writing-dancing. The project invites writing processes to be activated in a manner akin to that of our corporeal moving - the small inner dance of the fluttering heart, the images of falling, standing and spinning that reside within you - all become part of the journey of the imagination in dancing-writing. Skript is co-conceived by Jane Bacon and Vida Midgelow, Choreographic Lab.
Very beautiful and inspiring piece of writing. You can imagine yourself in place of the author just by diving deep into the writing and giving a through read to it. Beautiful words!
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