i particularly was interested in the locate/relocate terms and how the first, locate, for the unsighted person is about gaining information (of course the sighted person receives tactile information as well) and then by relocating the other body they are providing information (and of course receiving further information about the architecture of the other body – and perhaps their own). so, by engaging in this simple task there is an interdependent development of awareness.

also as the unsighted person i got a lot out of locating and relocating my own body – in relationship to the other body and through my own impulse. it’s a simple score for moving, locate then relocate.

having contact improvisation as a base practice, i found that even while keeping away from the contact vernacular (as part of the task) there is always a wealth of information that is transmitted through contact… and, even when not consciously processing it, that information provides spatial and vectoral information.

in dancing this way there were moments of complete surprise when having moved out of touch coming back into touch unsighted and sensing the other body they would be not where i may have expected. but, even then this quckly lost it’s surprise because it became the known. that is, i knew that in those moments i was coming back into contact (when unsighted) there could be unknown connections, which enabled me to actually be a little unaffected by the lack of ‘sense’.

more to write about stimulating risk… but it will have to wait until the next day.