For my "Localized Translations" study, I first spent some time learning the movement from Anjali's June assignment off the video. Then, I did a text-movement improvisation in which I told stories about "home" while drawing on Anjali's movement material. Here is a transcription of what I said:
Remembering Homes in the Moment
The little yellow table in a Mexican restaurant called Tacos Por Favor. The paint’s a little bit, the paint’s a little bit uneven, and they use chicken breast instead of dark meat. I used to go there, I, I used to go there, I used to go there, I would bring my book, my journal, and I would...I would write. And sometimes I would drink an horchata. That’s home number one – Home number two...is the sweep of freeway, the sweep of freeway. The mighty elevated concrete and the way it twists and it turns across each other. The 5, the 10, the 60, the, the, the driving. The perpetual driving. The bluetooth. The talking and driving and working. The perpetual the – the car accidents. The, the the the stop, the stop and go. The waiting. The NPR. The still not. The rush hour. The traffic. The planning one’s life around the sweep...the sweep of time and the sweep of concrete, that’s home number two. Pfwuh! Home number three. Home number three I remember, my pores remember, they remember the...sweat and grime and coming home and sneezing black snot out of my nose. And rickshaws and BEEP! and little trucks and camels and cows and...humidity. And a pair of feet, soft, of my teacher.
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What drew me in: the stories and quirky movement, I enjoy the final story being cut off with the feet. It left me with a sense of curiousity, anticipation, but also of guessing what that situation is. Could relate to the driving, it was humorous. Could imagine the local of the first restaurant, nice description. Liked you starting sideways.
ReplyDeleteCould see it developed to map out the space a bit more, for each "home" to be in a different space and facing. I liked you starting facing to the side instead of front and could see each place be a different facing or space on stage.
Perhaps with larger group, we could similarly map out the space with our different homes. Sometimes talking, and sometimes creating the space with movement or sometimes both. we did an AMAZING improv. here at Dance Intense (Toronto) the other day with Nova Bhattacharya. Perhaps some kind of task driven structure like hers could work for us: She had 8 of us take a 5 minute walk, and find something we see to improvise about. then she created 3 spaces (fairly close to each other, but had to be accessed across a barrier on the floor (a mat). In each of the 3 spaces we had a different task. In one space we improvised our movement to the front, in one space we improvised our movement to the back, in the third space we had to get the attention of our neighbor and we could choose to speak the source of our improvisation there if we wanted. We could move from space to space whenever we wanted. the result was fascinating. So many bodies passing each other in close quarters so we had to interact, switching and moving space to space often and with different pairings of people, different relationships and different information. The audience didn't have any idea of the score and couldn't guess any of the "tasks" when asked, but were completely engaged. We performed probably 5 minutes, but they all said they could have watched it longer!