Jerwood Bank 2008 – Siobhan Davies Dance

I have heard and used the word portraits so many times and yet not thought about its meaning enough. I naturally associate it with a representation of a characteristic feature which refer to a person more or less recognizable in the photographic sense but necessary significant about the subject and his nature. The brief is to embody the story which our movements contains through a juxtaposition or layering of moves, textures and structure in order to convey the multiple world that our living body experience: a simultaneous sense of memory, present and future….. I am simplifying greatly what was said but… I need to do this right now.Its a great task and facinating idea…. as much as greatly scary.

I would like to spend my time in the studio doing as much as possible to try to find movements without worrying about  if they’re right… too much… I think it is the only way. I believe there is a sort of natural selection phenomena with movements for which the good one styes and the other disappear in the oblivious. I would like to take inspiration from people and their gesturesin order to get away from the feeling that I am miming an action. Well this is step one.

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