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of dance and camera
Wise words from the legend about dance and the camera influencing my thoughts about my work this week. “…This mysterious and difficult-to-define phenomenon called dance leaves its source and takes on an identity, a destiny independent of its creator. I hold to dance because it is decidedly concrete in the face of a world in which ever more…
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Maya Project.E.
Rehearsal 5_2.28.18 Meditation (ATTENTION) Sitting/Seeing (SPACE) Walking/Proximity/Movement (GEOMETRY) Cameras in Play (FRAME) We are working on addressing the issue of “in” and”out” and starting to break it down. The idea is to queer the space between being behind the camera and in front of the camera and making the entire happening a movement event worth…
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Maya: Interdisciplinary Creative Knot
2.27.18 Leading a Maya experiment: Short Maya Description I wrote as a reminder for leading this short workshop in the techniques we are investigating in the Maya project: Maya is an improvisational dance filmmaking project which attempts to demystify the existence of the camera frame in the room, potentially revealing it as just another compositional…
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Maya Project.D.
Rehearsal 4_2.21.18 We are back to opening with meditation. We realized last time around that going right into moving without meditation doesn’t create in us the same kind of attention, and attention is one of the things we are most working to build. The ritual we are building is taking our time to meditate and…
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“Accumulation” and Maya
On “Accumulation with Talking plus Water Motor” and it’s connection to this Maya project. What is it to have the cameras so a part of this? It is about the technology. It is about our relationship with it, purposefully or not. In Trisha Brown’s “Accumulation with Talking plus Water Motor” there is no hiding what is happening in the…
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Maya Project. C.
Rehearsal 3_2.7.18 Two weeks of thinking and review went into this rehearsal, as we did not hold rehearsal last week due to conflicts. The same will be true of the coming week. I will be filthy rich and boiling over with ideas by the time our next rehearsal comes round. We began today walking through…
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Maya Project. B.
Rehearsal 2_1.24.18 We set up two cameras to record from the beginning. We repeat what may be a ritual of sitting, breathing, finding ourselves in the space, slowly evolving into walking, and then into improvisation. We focus our attention again, and more avidly, on space, distance, and pathway. I think that enhancing our understanding of…
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Maya Project. A.
I dub this project ‘Maya’, hoping for the influences of Mayas Angelou, Deren, and Lin, in honor of poetry, frame, and landscape. Maya is an investigation of improvisational filmmaking and the demystification of the making of dance films and the camera lens by incorporating the concept of the camera frame into the creative process from…