Jerwood Bank 2008 – Siobhan Davies Dance

Susan Hitch
Linguist and Broadcaster
As an academic, Susan has written on Alfred the Great’s ninth century programme of translating important books from Latin into Anglo-Saxon English, and on women’s writing in the Renaissance. But her curiosity about languages and how language itself works goes back further in her own life, to a childhood in Japan, Cuba, Greece and Germany, travelling between places and between language; later she lived in Algeria, Brazil and Poland.
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A new question for week 4:
As well as the work in the studio you have had the opportunity to take part in classes and discussions? What new insights (if any) have these given you into movement and process?

Till thousends thee. Lps.The keys to. Given! A way a lone a lost a loved a long the

I chose this piece of text as the basis for a code. A code to act as a vessel for the 10-12 movements we developed in week 2. 

These are the rules I have made up    ( I don’t like making up my own rules – I preferred the song where the rules were just given to you and you had to get on with it – now there are too many choices – too many opportunities for me to stray from the task -  but just to contradict myself it is actually a fantastic task for me – cause it shows me exactly how I let myself off the hook in the creative process … )          to date:
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I’ve got to a point where I am almost scared to move, I’m being very honest. Having had another task presented to us, together with very useful feedback for Portraits, I am realising how I need to push myself further, I need to amplify my movement without loosing the richness of the thought. This feels quite a challenge as I know I can turn up the volume but the point is, can I maintain and even develop the intention in it’s true sense? I have purposefully chosen an idea for myself within this new task to explore exactly that.