Writing-Dancing:
Developing
Skript
This most recent project extends our ongoing work
as and with dance artists, to focus on writing-dancing with the public.
Developed from the premise that the dance
writings that the public most often come across are marketing materials,
programme notes and critics reviews. While writing from within academic
contexts tends to remain within a small circulation. In both contexts, while
intend to elucidate, they are often obtuse, riddled in language that is off
putting and laden by value judgment.
This project thereby seeks to find
alternative modes of writing and offer dance writing as an experiential
encounter.
Our Questions:
How can an audience engage with a different
mode of dance writing?
How to write dancing in a manner akin to
choreography?
How to engage the lived experience of the
body?
How to make an invitation to a process (rather
than take a didactic approach)?
How to frame the encounter in a mode
sensitive to the processes of dance writing as informed by the articulation
strategies as we have developed in the Choreographic Lab?
Our Tentative Answers:
Developing a micro installation as a
context in which to write dancing we have developed a work in which encompasses
a series of features:
Mode of writing: Narrative, playful, poetic
Experience and the body: an approach which emphasizes writing of/from
the felt sense and the body, drawing on somatic practices.
Holding a space: One to one, simplicity,
scale, intimacy
Access: open invitation to sit, flexible
duration
Collaboration: as a mode through which to
support and reveal the unexpected
Improvisation: writing operating as
somatically based movement improvisation, writing with an immediacy and with
only limited correction
Self-Other relationship: drawing in
authentic movement practices in which we acknowledge and foreground the
experience of self whilst engaging with/watching other.
