"The Point"

After a week's worth of process I performed it at the Judson Church as a part of Movement Research's works in progress series 1/12/09
Process/Performance notes

So, the talk with the audience about the tiny inter-human affections that manage to save our lives felt very warm, like hanging out with a large group of intimate new friends, like I got to hold each of their hands. There was something very satisfying in that. The movement aspect has been the biggest struggle so far--stalking in and out of the studio, beginning some physical search for a search, and throwing it all away mumbling and cursing to myself "What's the point? Goddamnit, what the hell is the point." Around the same time I started laying around often with a kittenish new person, and appreciating those little things. After one of those mumbled questions to myself I had a flashback to a kiss on the forehead and figured that that answered something, though it illuminated nothing about the movement that I sense is becoming somewhat impatient waiting for me to find it.

So, on stage I burped out little bits of movement, excused myself and carried on a monologue which was very much an energetic exchange with the audience, about loving gestures, interspersed with the breath patterns of dying, crying, laughing, and ordinary respiration. This is my first time feeling that it was absolutely necessary to finish a draft of the sound score before fully being able to conceptualize the action. So I made a draft of a sound score, something I've done but never in my dancemaking practice, and found the performance from there.

What next? Maybe time to watch the video. Maybe not before more ruminating and possibly more action to do with the self argumentative digging for movement.