poeticmotions - thoughts http://poeticmotions.posterous.com random thoughts that follow me around posterous.com Tue, 05 Feb 2013 05:30:00 -0800 "Movement is, so to speak, living architecture" http://poeticmotions.posterous.com/movement-is-so-to-speak-living-architecture http://poeticmotions.posterous.com/movement-is-so-to-speak-living-architecture

I am still in motion. And architecting my pathways. 

To architect is much harder for me than to explore the expressivity of the movement - its dynamics.

Map out where the movement is going... is to architect a life(dance) plan. 

From Laban - who thought of the space as a harmonical entry of the body, to Forsythe - who looks at the range of possibilities of the body (and not attempting to be harmonical). It is a travelling through time to understand the evolution of space occupation and development within the movement art. 

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Mon, 17 Sep 2012 01:57:00 -0700 implo-explo http://poeticmotions.posterous.com/implo-explo http://poeticmotions.posterous.com/implo-explo

sion.

There is this movement that is so comon in each and every person. The combination of explostion and implosion that varies from one to the other as well as a simultaneous entwine of them. This is such a powerful movement that it becomes as all sorts of body* actions and reactions... crazy enactions and still inactions. If according to R.Laban our exernal movement is directly connected to the internal movement ("internal emotions <-> external expression"), which are the dances that acts these movements? There are many dance makers that "talk" about this movement. It is a infinite source of materials for enactments and live-live experi-ments. It is all about the invisibility of the visible. Or the contrary. And what happens when the external expression is banned? Implo-sion once again. And explo-sion. The movement still continues, but in with a different patterns. We are non stop implo-explo-sions either patterning or dispatterning. And this is rhythm! (rhythm of life!) of breath, of heart, of thoughts, of musical movements of an idea or lack of it.  ....

 

* appologies for the use of the word body. 

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Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:55:00 -0700 Beyond http://poeticmotions.posterous.com/beyond http://poeticmotions.posterous.com/beyond

[post done for the Maya-Lila blog at:  http://maya-lila.tumblr.com/]

 

Se pensar em intensidade ao invés de tensidades, aonde é que o ser vivo dançante pode ir parar?!

Talvez parar é que ele não vai.

Acredito que vai se mover além. Não para o além, mas simplesmente além. 

Se mover além. 

É para mim atravessar fronteiras. 

Temos muitas fronteiras que nos seguram como o que somos:

A pele segura o todo de dentro do corpo.

A roupa segura o corpo.

A sociedade segura nossa expressão (seja movimento ou aparência ou …)

A religião traça linhas

O ser humano constrói paredes, muros, grades, atos, venenos…

A mãe/pai dizem não

O dinheiro cria regras…

 

São muitas as fronteiras. 

 

E se passarmos a pensar nas intensidade ao invés das tensidades?!!

Intensidades como (parafraseando Debora Hay) pensar que cada uma das células do corpo faz o convite para ser vista. Não assumir que nossa dança tem uma frente (limitada pelo palco). Nossa dança pode ir além.

Algo que chega a ser tão pessoal (intimo) como universal.

(é um sentimento de vida a toda e cada parte do corpo, que faz parte do movimento e participa da mesma forma, compartilhando das mesmas intensidades…)

O corpo intenso pulsa.

a pulsação conduz o movimento (que não estagna na fronteira da mente). Flui em intensidade, em qualidades, em características. 

O artista como a fonte, o veículo e o material. Que faz circular o ciclo espiral da vida (como a respiração que nunca fecha um ciclo pois cada nova respirada já se está a um passo adiante na vida). 

Cada movimento que fazemos (artisticamente) é assim também. 

Um ciclo espiralado composto de intensidade (movimento, pensamento, sentimento, sensação, reação, contracção, relaxamento…).

O artista que trás do material e leva para o imaterial e volta para o material em outro lugar. 

É visível e invisível, depende sempre dos olhos que vêem. Do ouvido que escuta, do toque que sente, do gosto degustado, do cheiro… do arrepio.

É além. 

 

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Wed, 23 May 2012 05:57:00 -0700 overwhelming-thing http://poeticmotions.posterous.com/overwhelming-thing http://poeticmotions.posterous.com/overwhelming-thing

It looks like dance is a bit of every-thing and a bit of no-thing.

Movement can never be one-thing. Too-many-things that can become some-thing. A not-known-thing that would best be described as a felt-thing. Space in time-thing that changes never becoming that-thing but some other-thing that I could not know or even tell exactly which-thing. A past-thing mixed with the future-thing becomes the right-now-thing that is all around even when it is in only one body. But at the same time it is a body-thing other wise it would not be dance. Misterious-thing that comes out of a desired-thing to travel to the other and become a new-thing.

Thing could be the exact definition for this that is dance.

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Sun, 20 May 2012 17:25:36 -0700 Dance trance http://poeticmotions.posterous.com/dance-trance http://poeticmotions.posterous.com/dance-trance Dance trance is when "no space is left free outside the consciousness of the body"

This is

"When interior space partake so intimately of exterior space that movement seen from the outside coincides with with movement lived or seen from the inside"

Thoughts of the philosopher Jose Gil

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Sat, 03 Mar 2012 12:14:00 -0800 when I grow up... http://poeticmotions.posterous.com/when-i-grow-up http://poeticmotions.posterous.com/when-i-grow-up

This is currently my life (or my life for dance) envision.

La Ribot is a dancer-performer that acts poetically and politically.

I would love to share any impressions of this with who ever is interested...

 

 

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