"Talking with you all last night made me think about how important the word is to dance and what an important role it can play to make it much more than spectacle. It's the word in service of dance and open- ended discussion you guys invited us to that makes me also realize the importance of this project of the ' dancing word' that several of you Seattle artists are invested in. These conversations and inquiry, releases the dead, desolate, abstruse, affected and limiting dance scholarship from the gilded cage of academia, which is where it has languished for over a decade and brings it back to the studio into its living space, the word transformed to dance by the kinetic breath of the dancer herself, surrounded by the audience, and not the lonely labors of the isolated observer of dance attempting to capture remote language his own remoteness to this art form, undergoing shift." - Koushik Ghosh, audience member
"Oh my, I LOVE the way you are working and it was such a treat to see it unfolding up close in SC tonight. It made me teary and satisfied and entranced. It was one of the best experiences of time I have ever had watching dance." - Shannon Stewart, audience member
"Oh my, I LOVE the way you are working and it was such a treat to see it unfolding up close in SC tonight. It made me teary and satisfied and entranced. It was one of the best experiences of time I have ever had watching dance." - Shannon Stewart, audience member
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2012 we enjoyed an intimate evening at Vanessa DeWolf's Studio Current, a cherished creative/performative space on Capitol Hill in Seattle. Angelina Baldoz, Allie Hankins and I (Beth Graczyk) shared material from our Portland residency, and Kt Shores, Steven Gomez, Corrie Befort, and Elby Brosch shared a quartet that developed out of the Confluence & Rebellion classes.
The evening began with a reading as a large group - each of us holding a different text but reading out-loud as if it were one text, allowing overlap, interruption, and silence. We ended the evening with a lively discussion. Here we share with you audio excerpts of the group reading, a small sampling of the texts, and audience responses to the dance/sound in drawings and words.
The readers included: Kt Shores, Elby Brosch, Vanessa DeWolf, Steven Gomez, Corrie Befort, Bill Befort, Nancy Befort, Margaret Wilhyde, Evan Foster, Paige Barnes, Mark Haim, Koushik Ghosh, Adam Sekuler, Shannon Stewart, Joyce Liao, Angelina Baldoz, Beth Graczyk, Allie Hankins and John Stolk.
Tuesday, November 20th, 2012 we enjoyed an intimate evening at Vanessa DeWolf's Studio Current, a cherished creative/performative space on Capitol Hill in Seattle. Angelina Baldoz, Allie Hankins and I (Beth Graczyk) shared material from our Portland residency, and Kt Shores, Steven Gomez, Corrie Befort, and Elby Brosch shared a quartet that developed out of the Confluence & Rebellion classes.
The evening began with a reading as a large group - each of us holding a different text but reading out-loud as if it were one text, allowing overlap, interruption, and silence. We ended the evening with a lively discussion. Here we share with you audio excerpts of the group reading, a small sampling of the texts, and audience responses to the dance/sound in drawings and words.
The readers included: Kt Shores, Elby Brosch, Vanessa DeWolf, Steven Gomez, Corrie Befort, Bill Befort, Nancy Befort, Margaret Wilhyde, Evan Foster, Paige Barnes, Mark Haim, Koushik Ghosh, Adam Sekuler, Shannon Stewart, Joyce Liao, Angelina Baldoz, Beth Graczyk, Allie Hankins and John Stolk.
Selected excerpts of read texts:
"Merleau-Ponty's writings enact a steadily renewed resuscitation of wonder at the exuberant mystery of the real. He worked tirelessly to draw philosophy to a sense of astonishment at the wild-flowering weirdness of the world in which we find ourselves before abstract reflection weaves its spell on our senses. Further, he sought to awaken reflective reason to its own genesis in the world of untamed perception, and to ensure that philosophy and the sciences would begin to frequent that dimension of direct, non discursive experience - testing their conclusions against the irrefutable eloquence that things display when we meet them in the flesh, taking guidance from the specific ways such elemental encounters always resist, in some manner, the formulas we use to explain them." - David Abram, Earth in Eclipse
"Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. This might be called the law of the dancer's life-- the law which governs its outer aspects. Then there is the cultivation of the being. It is through this that the legends of the soul's journey are retold with all their gaiety and their tragedy and the bitterness and sweetness of living." - Martha Graham, An Athlete of God
"it is said thus: atman's own nature is being [temporarily] colored by "laughter," "erotic love," etc. that can tint it into their own hues. But, [all the same,] he remains this extremely white [colorless] thread which shines (nirbhasamana) through the conglomeration of loosely strung [semi-transparent colored] jewels." - Abhinavagupta, Abhinavagupta's Aesthetics (Natalia Isayeva)
"I think little and therefore understand everything I feel. I am feeling in the flesh and not intellect in the flesh. I am the flesh. I am the flesh. I am the flesh and not intellect in the flesh. I am the flesh. I am feeling. I am God in the flesh and in feeling. I am man and not God. I am simple." - Vaslav Nijinsky, The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky
Pamm Hanson drawings, audience member:
Thank you to those who came out for this event! We are as always, so grateful for your support and enthusiasm for this project and its development!
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