Jerwood Bank 2008 – Siobhan Davies Dance

This last few days of the week as being quite hard or better everything felt quite dense: too thick to be able to swim through it without getting stuck. The solo brief was given on tuesday and since then we have start our individual search through the infinite world of movement  or functional movements where everything its possible as long as it has a clear intention or reason. The task it’s so free that it is scary to start.I have been through a lots of personal doubt of how and why chose a particular movement, what is about it that is important and needs to be focus on to,…is it too little ,…..too much? …too banal?…too gestural ..just not good enough?I am trying to ignore the destructive mantra and notice what stays in my body memory as I keep working and also follow what I am curious about.I am not very objective about myself at this stage but I can see in everybody else a real transformation in the moment where the body as a whole convey something and it is very fascinating to watch. Jill classes as been such a great contribution to the afternoon work as they prepare the body through an imaginative process of exploration of set material , improvisation and partnering work…..cannot believe it’s the end of week 2.

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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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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