Structured Notation
There is something really satisfying about completing my first five measures of Structured Labanotation.
Laban meets creative process
I went into the studio on Monday with a stack of newspapers, a highlighter and my computer with a article of Susan Kozel discussing the possibility of doing a phenomenology on affect. I had an image in my head of drawing a simple house on pages of newspaper and crumbling them…
Susan Kozel, affect & phenomenology
Susan Kozel spoke in ACCAD’s Motion Lab at OSU last week and she packed her hour presentation with current works. “Performing Encryption” which involved converting and encrypting movement into data, then creating movement to encrypt and decrypt the encryption. She also spoke about her project “Living Archives” which works with…
Laban Movement Phrase
Today we created a movement phrase based on the following parameters: Leading/Initiated movement with a particular body part Primary weight in a place that is not your feet Sliding with weight Sliding without weight The phrase I created was task based and ended up being really interesting. I might have…
You’re Awesome!
One of the exercises we have done in the first few weeks of my MFA at OSU is called “You’re awesome!” I think it’s a great way to open the space with positivity and help everyone feel, well, awesome actually. Norah said it came from a theater exercise. You stand…
Aboutness
The “aboutness” is important right now. What is your experience about? What is your research about? What about you is unique, similiar or contrary? What are you about? I’m currently about discovery. It’s difficult to look at yourself. Display yourself. Find yourself the article of your attention, but that is…
Stating your Research
Research Statements are no joke. So hard. How do you whittle down your interests into one specific thing that is the essence of your interests. What are my interests? That has been the point of the last two weeks here. I’m interested in everything I’m doing right now. I feel…
Dr. Kosstrin’s Honest Bodies
This summer we were tasked with reading “Honest Bodies: Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow” and I was very excited to then sign up for a class with the author. How fun is it to take a course from the person who literally wrote the book on it!…
I belong here.
They put my name in cement right on 15th Street. It’s official.
Let’s Begin.
The start of graduate school after working in the field is like a time-warp. I’ve fallen through the rabbit hole and here I am 20 years later, right where I started. Let’s begin.