Tracy and I are entering our final week in studio together and we’ll be sharing our process with the public this coming weekend (April 27 & 28) in an installation format. Below is my distilled score for the installation. The 5 stages of the sequence refer to the medium (paper) that Tracy and I work with throughout. She begins as a painter and I as a dancer, but body and painting intersect in the “sculpture” stage, at which point our respective practices fall away. The more we work, the sequence becomes less linear and the “general practices” of improvisation pervade the entire effort.
General practices (of improvisation)
get lost
arising
decompose
observe new form
stop before arrival
an energetic following
particles at play
repetition
stillness
constant change within fixed vocabulary
constant change without vocabulary
resonance
deconstruct
Stages
(1) Scrolling
arrive
don’t take it too seriously
see
touch
unroll and roll
push
grasp
toss and snap
billow
(2) Painting
track
allow
eye contact
hover
circle
somatic polyrhythm
(3) Sculpture
planes in space
energetic resonance
(4) Ripping
speed
join limbs
jerk
whack
source known vocabulary
(5) The remains
paper as extension of the body
play
press fragments into skin
smooth out surfaces
give it away