Jerwood Bank 2008 – Siobhan Davies Dance

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.

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?

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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