Jerwood Bank 2008 – Siobhan Davies Dance

Each person now has a collection of elements which capture different aspects of their portrait. We started to look at a way of structuring these elements . We followed on from the idea of using the songs as a way to challenge us in how these elements sit alongside each other, but this time we replaced the song score with text. They all found a different piece of text and no matter whether it was prose poetry or a section of a play each one had a play on repetition and rythmn. They were all set the task to create their own set of rules or code to adhere to and then feed their fragments into this new structure. This became the first layer to work from and once the memory worked its way around this jigsaw they would be able to sense what new layer of thought or added code could develop it further. Showing each other and working their material in group plays was an important part of this process.

Thank you for all your responses to the previous questions. Here is another!
Is the project revealing anything to you about your history and the things that you have learned through your dance career and education? Has anything surprised you?

Today I have tried to explore further the possibility of a single thought looking at   it from a variety of points of view.I worked first with a extract of a text focusing my attention on different words each time and then on a picture with  I have worked on a different texture and muscular density.

I’m not sure if ‘completedness’ is a word in the proper sense but I seem to be concerning myself quite a lot with it. Maybe ‘completion’ is more the word I’m looking for.
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