Jerwood Bank 2008 – Siobhan Davies Dance

The idea of testing movement is a bit like passing flour through a sieve: a movement get explored through a range of improvisation to do with  something like expansion, timing, body range, explosion ,pauses and silences,  fragmentation. The choices of the testing has to be relevant to the nature of the exploration and… sometimes after the all trial… thing there is nothing left: complete  emptiness. I found myself in that place a lot of times during the week and started to wondered why  questioning my ability of moving as a whole and (as always) ignoring or having to shut off that voice and start again. In some ‘lucky’ moments that silence has stripped that movement enough to be able to re-dress it with the needed items or for a  new idea to happen. Why is silence so hard for me I don’t know.

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