Monday, October 03, 2005
Quotations and Discoveries
Barbara: "No perspiration is bad pedagogy!"
Love it.
Also, on my own, there is the totally obvious discovery to let the body do what it's built to do. The psoas exists for a reason. It's a series of muscles that exist to stabilise the body. I use the feet and ankles to do that way too much. Jaw tension exists to help me breathe, but I have a diaphragm and abdominal muscles to do that for me. I use articulators (feet, hands, face) as the prime movers of my body. The articulators are the humans in that particular cosmology, and the core is God.
No one said it would be easy. My body hurts like a bitch, but the work is so satisfying. One of the other things that came out of today's rehearsal was that spatial relationship is actually emotional relationship. We dance with a certain proximity for the duration of one of the pieces, then get very close for about four or five minutes. The emotion changes because the spatial relationship changes. This is useful in theatre too.
On a totally different note, a friend of mine last night described himself as an unnecessarily intense romantic. I like this. I think I am also an unnecessarily intense romantic. I spoke with Ben today. I asked him if he missed me. He said yes, and laughed. I said "what? I need to know this information", which I do. Maybe he'll be a little more demonstrative. I don't want him to be a blubbing idiot, but it's definitely nice to know that he misses me.
Ben's favourite pies: raspberry, strawberry-rhubarb, wild blueberry.
Ben's middle name: Alde (accent agu on the e).
Alright, now I'm just gross.
Love it.
Also, on my own, there is the totally obvious discovery to let the body do what it's built to do. The psoas exists for a reason. It's a series of muscles that exist to stabilise the body. I use the feet and ankles to do that way too much. Jaw tension exists to help me breathe, but I have a diaphragm and abdominal muscles to do that for me. I use articulators (feet, hands, face) as the prime movers of my body. The articulators are the humans in that particular cosmology, and the core is God.
No one said it would be easy. My body hurts like a bitch, but the work is so satisfying. One of the other things that came out of today's rehearsal was that spatial relationship is actually emotional relationship. We dance with a certain proximity for the duration of one of the pieces, then get very close for about four or five minutes. The emotion changes because the spatial relationship changes. This is useful in theatre too.
On a totally different note, a friend of mine last night described himself as an unnecessarily intense romantic. I like this. I think I am also an unnecessarily intense romantic. I spoke with Ben today. I asked him if he missed me. He said yes, and laughed. I said "what? I need to know this information", which I do. Maybe he'll be a little more demonstrative. I don't want him to be a blubbing idiot, but it's definitely nice to know that he misses me.
Ben's favourite pies: raspberry, strawberry-rhubarb, wild blueberry.
Ben's middle name: Alde (accent agu on the e).
Alright, now I'm just gross.
// posted by MSR @ 9:36 PM 
