Looking back on the year of Next Choreography, numerous sessions
stood out to me but one which I found particularly eye opening was a session
with Ben Duke in December 2015. The session explored a kind of journey and path
way to choreography. Through the session we used different stimuli to trigger
others, first we looked though books and magazines and picked out a photo/image
that personally stood out to us. From that image we wrote a series of poems and
words that captured it. The final poem was a longer more detailed one with the
instructions of having to be written in the first person and to include a feel
for the five senses. This then became the information that was used to create a
piece of choreography.
What I found interesting and captivating was the process in
which the choreography was produced and that by the end there were so any
different options and ways of looking at it. The fact that the poems were not
written with a purpose of producing another piece of work from but just what
you saw or interpreted from your chosen image made it easier in some ways and
more meaningful to then use the material to create a piece of choreography.
One Poem produced from the session:
(I)
Spell, Hear, Touch, Taste, See
Spell, Hear, Touch, Taste, See
I capture the traveling journey
full of representation and sectors of life
documenting it in irregular black and white squares
hearing the silent stare
watching the tension of pen to paper
touching the cold, solid object
tasting the warm-hearted movement
continuously doing, watching, hearing, tasting, feeling
full of representation and sectors of life
documenting it in irregular black and white squares
hearing the silent stare
watching the tension of pen to paper
touching the cold, solid object
tasting the warm-hearted movement
continuously doing, watching, hearing, tasting, feeling
