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The Maya Project 4_E
8.30.19 Progression: Attention, Space, Geometry, Frame, Multiple Frames, Sequencing, Adding Frames What does it mean to frame something? Physically? Psychologically? Intentionally? Can you unintentionally frame? How? Bias? What happens to our bodies when we purposefully avoid the frame? The word capture was resonating put myself there, take charge of this frame My eyes stayed in my body…
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The Maya Project 4_D
8.25.19 Runthrough: Attention, Space, Geometry, Frame, Multiple Frames, Sequence, Adding Frames play with some camera relationships: camera as subservient, curting your image… movement explorations: what it feels like to hold/be in front of the camera “i’m drawn to answer to its gaze” -Yildiz I’m thinking about communicating with someone else who is not the camera…
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The Maya Project 4_C
8/23/19 [Poetically Presented Rehearsal Notes] Looking Practice: Attention, Space, Geometry, Frame Camera Eyes Practice What is your relationship to the camera while you’re dancing? Make a list and embody these relationships: -What kinds of relationships do we have with the camera? -What does it feel like to point the camera? -Your point of view includes…
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The Maya Project 4_A
8.16.19 Regular Practice group rehearsal of The Maya Project work. Contemporary dance improvisation work with cameras. Getting to know the frame so well that we may consider regarding and disregarding the frame of the camera as a compositional tool. Conflating the past, present, and future by using a tool of archive to compose for an…
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The Maya Project 4_B
8/18/19 [Poetically presented rehearsal notes] What is holding the camera? What is being in front of the camera? Focus on emergence Duets (AKA Trios) Pointing the camera, Listening to Sensation, Creating Movement Camera Eyes practice What are the benefits of utilizing the camera? [Relating through initiating purposefully in your body certain physical mirrorings of what…
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Reading John Cage
“Each thing has its own place, never takes the place of something else; and the more things there are, as is said, the merrier.”
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The Maya Project_1_A-J Presentation
The Maya Project is an improvisational dance filmmaking project that attempts to equate the ephemeral experience of dance improvisation with the permanence of video. This project endeavors to demystify the existence of the camera frame in the room, potentially revealing it as just another compositional tool/stipulation. We employ a democratic process of both space and composition: we…
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Maya.Project.H
Rehearsal 7_ 3.28.18 We’re really onto something here. We rehearsed with a box this time to see if it would help give us options for setting the camera down. I don’t know that it made a huge difference, but we will try again. It’s hard to pay attention to new players when we’ve been building…
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Maya Project.G.
Rehearsal 7_ 3.21.18 PROCESS Opening: Meditation and/or attention focusing. Taking that focused attention we’ve harnessed and applying it to the space in our bodies and the space around our bodies, we begin to concentrate on the body as space, proximity, and a heightened connection to infinite points in space in three dimensions. Taking this awareness of space into the idea…
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Maya Project.F.
Rehearsal 6_3.7.18 It’s Working! Our process is streamlining. We are beginning with the cameras earlier and with greater dexterity. The foundation of this work is strong now: our sense of motion, proximity, shape, spatial relationship within the concept of frame is really solidifying. It is becoming quite clear in the video relics of these rehearsals…