Not a discursive explanation, nor a single concept. A conceptual framework of openings to the back end of my performance practice.
Between movement and thought
This website weaves the following terms* through the fabric of my practice**. It addresses the body-mind and how it is affected by a technology of dialogue between movement and thought.
DOUBT
CÓNTFORMAL
OPTION-VOLITION
FRICTION
CÓNTFORMAL
OPTION-VOLITION
FRICTION
*1 Each of these terms can be looked at as a dialogue, and related to respectively as a dialogue of:
-possibilities -form and formlessness -responsibilities -desires |
** Broadly, my dance-improvisation and composition practice focuses on interruptions, shifts and gaps aimed to interrupt an assumed linearity of the development of movement and thought during a dance performance. I have been employing doubt, misinformation and contradiction as tools to question or undo common understandings and to generate personal ones by filling one's own gaps.
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Dialogue
Dialogue is generally understood as a conversation between two or more parts. Here dialogue is approached as the conversation between two entities at the core of my performance practice: movement and thought.
Due to the ephemeral and fleeting nature of this particular dialogue, I hereby propose using language to guide but not to lock, image to suggest but not to illustrate, and the blurring of both into one other to soften but not to confuse. One single register of writing was not sufficient to serve this purpose, therefore this lexicon presents itself to the reader as a collection of poetic, reflective, and analytic texts, inviting access through a conversation of multiple entry points.
Due to the ephemeral and fleeting nature of this particular dialogue, I hereby propose using language to guide but not to lock, image to suggest but not to illustrate, and the blurring of both into one other to soften but not to confuse. One single register of writing was not sufficient to serve this purpose, therefore this lexicon presents itself to the reader as a collection of poetic, reflective, and analytic texts, inviting access through a conversation of multiple entry points.
A nor-lexicon
In this context nor is a reminder and an invitation to notice gaps (eg: I am not avoiding definition, nor am I defining), questioning if the conjunction connecting negations may become a dialogue happening between assumed contraries. In terms of lexicons, this one will have the advantages, inadequacies, misconceptions and particularities which are likely in this genre of works, especially given that:
1. It is not that this is not a lexicon. Calling it a nor-lexicon has merely the intention of entering in dialogue with the notions and questioning the rigidity of form in relation to content—I regard this as an alive text, presented here at a stage of temporary closure (1.).
2. The terms of the nor-lexicon are lexical terms principally, but each invites for a reworking of its sense. Three kinds of considerations are made for each word—a personal description (P.) and one through a conceptual framework (C.) in the menu &, and a synthesis through the lens of poetics in the menu 0.
3. The description of a term is not to be definitive. With consistency to my practice, it will require perpetual reassessment and adjourning. The explicative conceptual framework (&) related to the poetic synthesis derived from a gestural iteration (0.), deliberately neglects to mention certain details which may otherwise perplex the reader.
1. It is not that this is not a lexicon. Calling it a nor-lexicon has merely the intention of entering in dialogue with the notions and questioning the rigidity of form in relation to content—I regard this as an alive text, presented here at a stage of temporary closure (1.).
2. The terms of the nor-lexicon are lexical terms principally, but each invites for a reworking of its sense. Three kinds of considerations are made for each word—a personal description (P.) and one through a conceptual framework (C.) in the menu &, and a synthesis through the lens of poetics in the menu 0.
3. The description of a term is not to be definitive. With consistency to my practice, it will require perpetual reassessment and adjourning. The explicative conceptual framework (&) related to the poetic synthesis derived from a gestural iteration (0.), deliberately neglects to mention certain details which may otherwise perplex the reader.
How is the body affected by the technology of a Dialogue between movement and thought?
Does doubt lead us to access vulnerability and reach intimacy with an audience?
Does doubt lead us to access vulnerability and reach intimacy with an audience?