April -
June 2016
Showing/Sharing at the
Undisciplining Dance Symposium, University of Auckland, 2 July 2016
The Undisciplining Dance Symposium
was an incredible gathering of dance practitioners, researchers, performers and
creatives from around NZ and worldwide sharing their work as a way of unpacking
the term 'undisciplining dance'. People addressed this in regards to education,
performance, research, choreography -even in their mode of presentation! For
us, this was an exciting context in which to share our work, an undisciplined approach to
creating and performing work and in the undisciplined performance structure of
informality and collective post-performance reflection.
Our performance was 20 minutes
long. Leah began the piece with verbal communication to the dancers who
responded physically in relationship with the space and the others. Throughout
the piece the 'choreographer' role was transferred between people offering
directions for the dancers to fulfill. We could start and stop sound tracks and
the piece concluded with an (unfortunately silent!) alarm.
Our audience offered these
thoughts/proposals/questions/offerings/possibilities:
cb:
interesting inquiry into our modes of decision making = intuition vs
choreographic understanding
nm: what
if the choreographers were completely immersed in the piece?
what
if the choreographers were outside people, foreign to the project?
what
if the choreographers were the same but directing new people?
el: what
is the mode of saying no?
we
have to push past our boundaries, we have to risk take, we have to go to those
'scary moments' -that is where we learn, where we make art, that is where
the interest lies for the audience
ae:
encouragement to see the process, the raw making rather than the finished
product
al: how
do we offer the instructions? is it a command / question / offer / suggestion ?
kl: what
role can music, or a live musician, play in the live-creation of the work?
We are considering all of these
ideas as we move into Part III.
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