A final question
By Ian on Thursday 20 November, 2008 | 4 Responses |
This is my final quetion for the site and I would appreciate your thought and comments. Thanks for all your answer to previous questions – and you should feel free to revisit the old questions and any current viewpoints!
As you reach the end of the project, is it possible to see how taking part in Jerwood Bank 2008 might impact on what you do in the future, e.g. in your creative process, the direction of your future career, the choices that you might make?
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Sunday 14 December, 2008 at 9:42 pm
I think that taking part in Jerwood Bank has equipped me in various ways in my future work.
When working for others, I may be able to draw on some of the strategies I have used in this project: Finding my way into a task, persisting with a task, working as part of a group.
Perhaps it will prove most useful for my own choreographic work. I now feel more relaxed about working at length, about exploring things that seem like a detour or diversion. I feel happier about messing around with things that might not “work out” (but are worth doing, and can enrich the final work even if not directly included in it). At the same time, this could allow me to let go of things that I like, but are not quite right (they will be there anyway because they have influenced the work, and they could always be picked up again for another part or project).
We also explored ‘performance’ – keeping material fresh and edgy, so that the act of performing does not become too comfortable, and therefore lose it’s essence and life. This is something I will be attentive to in futre performance work.
I also feel that we connected really well as a group, and that this could lead to joint ventures or collaborations in future.
Lastly, and this is not insignificant, my participation in this project is a useful addition to my CV. In that sense it has increased my confidence in applying for other projects, and it may lead to more opportunities for me,
Wednesday 17 December, 2008 at 1:50 pm
From participating in Bank, I am looking forward to working in a familiar framework (research and development) but with the opportunity to approach given tasks from a slightly different angle. The way I consider movement and what depth it can have has become more refined for me, therefore presenting the choice of more scope within material.
As Jo mentioned, the idea of maintaining a vitality in performance is very interesting and I hope to have opportunities of exploring this further.
Saturday 20 December, 2008 at 9:51 am
I believe this experience has strenghten my interest in movement research and given me new tools in how to approach it.In particular my ability to find strategy and different approaches to the work in the studio feels in a funny way freer because i see many more routes to follows that… maybe have a different depth or reason to form as i explore movement .I find it still yet quite hard to be objective about the all thing and I believe it is going to take some time. I have two new project ideas to start to work on for the new year which I am sure will resonate of all of this.I also think I have changed as a dancer in the executioner aspect of it but I am not sure how to define that yet… maybe something to do with the performance vitality that Jo and Lindsey has been talking about.
Tuesday 13 January, 2009 at 12:49 pm
A number of weeks later, I can see that the impact has been considerable. I feel like the project has helped me bridge into a new phase of practice, which I hoped it would. I realise I am asking new questions that hadn’t occured to me before, and I am questioning the creative choices I would previously have made that I now see may have been habitually. This is changing my way of working a great deal. I think I also developed my understanding of movement and a need to be much more specific in the movement I make/ perform. I recently saw a video of a solo I performed for another choreographer and immediately recognised how radically differently I would perform it now, in light of the Bank project.
The information is still integrating but as I say I think the impact has been considerable. In terms of future career, I think I will look back and see the experience as one that was profoundly pivotal in my work as a dancer and choreographer.