Today the four of us had an online improvisation session for Borders Resurfacing via Zoom. Priya Srinivasan provided us with the following guidelines:
"Tell a short story each about being stopped at the airport station or border from your personal experience and/or a time when you were stopped because you looked different bc of race gender sexuality ? How did it make you feel ? How has it shaped the way you now move at borders airports spaces where your body has been policed before ?
- Do not write this down ahead of time but you can tell it to yourself to get the gist of it and when you are all together on zoom share that story and record it
- after everyone has heard the story the first time repeat it again and see what movements the other 3 are able to create while you are retelling this story
- if time permits tell the story for the3rd time this time incorporating everyone else's moves while you are retelling the story and have others watch you
See what emerges in response to the 4 stories repeated 3 times"
Below are steps 2 and 3 (narration of story while others improvise, and a solo improvisation incorporating others' movements) for each person. The password for all is "zoom!".
Babli Narration Group Improv 4_17 from Post Natyam Collective on Vimeo.
Babli solo from Post Natyam Collective on Vimeo.
Cyn Narration Group Improv from Post Natyam Collective on Vimeo.
Cyn solo from Post Natyam Collective on Vimeo.
Meena Narration Group Improv from Post Natyam Collective on Vimeo.
Meena solo from Cynthia Ling Lee on Vimeo.
Shy Narration Group Improv from Post Natyam Collective on Vimeo.
Shy solo from Post Natyam Collective on Vimeo.
Maybe these could be distilled one step further. Either we could take our own or someone elses story and take a few key spoken phrases only along with a few key movement themes to improvise on?
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