Inspirations for the Dance

(Project 3)

On this page participants sent inspirations for the dance.
Inspirations could be in the form of text, images, movies, sound.

Inspirations fed into the talk about the dance on the Discussion Page and the Board and influenced the movement that the dancers create.

Simon:
Simon's video uses Meyerbridge images, and is taken from his Web site:
http://www.agentsimon.co.uk

(Click here to see the rehearsal where we worked with Simon's video)

Özgün:
Then, maybe I can talk a bit more on 'travel' ...travel means so much to me actually...Because it is a philosophy through life in my opinion. I see each travel(to a new country, to a holiday,...or whatever), as roads....They are roads that ends in us...And at every journey, we take a step to ourselves...

Also I want to add here Lao_tzu's(570-490 BC)words: "A GOOD TRAVELLER HAS NO FIXED PLANS AND NOT INTENT ON ARRIVING".

(Click here to see the rehearsal where we worked with Özgün's quote)

Clare and Coco:

Sky and Water
Reptiles
Encounter
(Click here to see the rehearsal where we worked with this image)

Clare:
T.S.Elliot - Excerpt from The Dry Salvages.
"Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past
Into different lives, or into any future;
You are not the same people who left that station
Or who will arrive at amy terminus...
....Fare forward, you who think that you are voyaging;
You are not those who saw the harbour
Receding, or those who will disembark.
Here between the hither and the farther shore
While time is withdrawn, consider the future
And the past with an equal mind."
Dan:
Here's an idea for you. It's based on a situation that is happening to a friend of mine.
He's in an unhappy relationship and has "dumped" his girlfriend 6 times already, but each time he gets barracked by her until he agrees to go back
out with her again! She's a bit obsessive, always prying into his life, he's loving but completely spineless!
I guess I have an idea of unhappiness and separation, weakness and spinlessness, contrasted then with togetherness and happiness again, only
to feel trapped and unhappy again. It's a vicious cycle that he can't break because of his own weakness and her claw like grip over him.
(Click here to see the rehearsal where we worked with Dan's description)

Özgün:
subject in my mind is :travel. because the action 'travellin' carries a lot on his arms...as it
means meeting new things, new lifes, new places...and it also means 'leaving' which is always hard...but to explore we should learn to
leave...Leave our habits, friends, cities, family...

(Click here to see the rehearsal where we worked with leaving.)

Colleen:
hmmm...people seem interested in transcendance and transformation but what are we transforming/transcending?
life/death/struggles/strife

what about reincarnation?

(Click here to see the rehearsal where we worked with birth/life/death.)

Kris:
Transfiguration idea?

What about change in feelings. Love to hate, fall out of love, fall in love, delight in a new toy to indifference etc...

(Click here to see the rehearsal where we worked with love/hate relationships)

Jeff:
This seems especially resonant in terms of working with technology AND with performing. The predilection in the dance world to focus on "younger" forms, idealizing a form of the body that is ephemeral while as if it could be maintained forever, combined with the idea of technolust, the strange idea (which I am guilty of myself quite often) that the next new piece of technology will REALLY solve all our problems....

Of course, these are rather negative aspects of transfiguration, the replacement and disposal of the old with the new. I wonder if it would be possible to convey these feelings positively...

Patti:
I would love to see a project centering on the theme of transformation or transcendence. There are so many strong images and levels of meaning associated with this theme, that it lends itself to some marvelous movement!

Coco:
On a not too dissimilar theme, what about birth, growth and development etc? The transformation of life, be it animal, vegetable or mineral. Another idea is the theme of weather - it is constantly changing, evolving and moving. It can be as calm as a hot summers day or as tempestuous as a hurricane. Just an idea.

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