Spent some time with a small group of people yesterday (including Paea and David) working on sighted and unsighted materials. This was based on the work that Alexandra Macdonald and I did in the UK (at the Choreographic Lab in Northampton) in March this year. Interesting to work within a group situation (Alexandra and I spent the entire time in a large studio alone), and attempting to articulate information that had been developed in quite an organic way (and with no particular ‘endpoint’ in mind).

Issues related to movement “defaults” emerged. Not really surprising, but because Alexandra and I worked mostly outside of what might be called contact idioms we seemed to approach the moving/viewing/unviewing with a greater emphasis on soloing within a duetting structure – what State of Flux call Duoloing I think it is). But this also has to do (perhaps) with how the information is provided in the sharing – and b/c this is my first go at facilitating these ideas/actions/provocations I am bound to come upon moving misnomers.

The difference between the process of finding and the process of sharing is perhaps the awareness of what the experience ‘might’ be like. My capacity to adapt the information, and remain open to surprise in where people direct (or corner) the materials is critical. Is the endpoint that Alexandra and I experienced the one that ought to be experienced? No — and yet its richness is something I’d like to have shared, and to enter various moving communities. These questions then return to what it is that I might be seeking in this particular aspect of my practice. Simply more stimuli? Or an increased/altered sense of intra and intersubjective (space/time) corporeality?

On a completely different note – Alexandra and I used the terms “assist”, “resist” and “t-bone” to cover the kinds of options open to the sighted person in the duoloing. These need clarification and refinement (especially ‘t-bone’ – which we used (thanks to Teb) as a note to have the capacity to completely fuck things around) … seems like good fodder for a venn diagram.