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Working the Gaps
Kerry looks like she might be riding a slight panic (with positive energy of course). There are 4 dancers in the space. Wu Weifong is injured and will not be back [...]
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day 5 wang lei solo day 5 duets day 5 Wu Shuai day 5 wang lei 2 Working the Gaps Kerry looks like she might be riding a slight panic (with positive energy of course). There are 4 dancers in the space. Wu Weifong is injured and will not be back [...] Video clips:
Day 6 Sun rui day 6 Wang yabin day 6 Wu shuai day 6 zhibou 1 Day 6 Pulling together Wayne’s blog comment reminds me to write what I respect and learn from Kerry as she works. Her tireless driving energy and rhythmic pace [...] sun rui & weifeng day 7 marathon trio: working it out day 7 Kerry has listed the methods she uses when teaching and transferring knowledge of her movement language to students and dancers. This also represents the qualities that are important to her. I attach an image here. Task (new material): [...] wang mei rocking day 7 Wang mei has decided to perform in the work, so now there are 5 performers. I watch a run of a small section, to music. Dancers are sitting on the floor facing front, swaying slightly, forward and back. I am caught by the concentration, the stillness within the [...] day 8 beginning I spent the morning writing up yesterday’s process. Afternoon Kerry is talking to the dancers - — You know the sextet, the lifting phrase altogether? Well good news, it is scrapped. Kerry sets new line material, as a possible ending and echoing the earlier line material. Three A dancers and three [...] Wang mei rehearsal video I enter as a discussion is in process about how far to drop their heads as they sit on the floor. …Time passes, I am watching them all lying on their backs. They are now discussing exactly how Wang mei wants them to initiate arching their necks so that their [...] Walking — what happens when dancing stops and walking begins. Can the dancers break out of dance code to walk from A to B, or will the walk become a codified statement? Does walking constitute a gap in the dancing, a pragmatic move from A to B, or is it a full statement. Is a [...] Issues emerging – welcome discussion and expansion. The different uses of time and space by the two choreographers. The aesthetics of the different movement languages, classical, fragmented, hybrid, pedestrian. Generic histories of movement languages. Embodying language, outside in and/or inside out. Questions of performing presence — when the dancing stops. Translation and how meaning shifts [...] Interview with Wang Mei August 7th Translator: Xu Rui. Interviewer: Emilyn (transcribed September 2nd) Xu Rui’s presence as the translator was integral to the interview process. However, I have edited the text to reflect a direct dialogue between Wang Mei and myself. Emilyn: I am fascinated in your process and I would like to know more about your work. I would like to ask about your concerns in this piece. Perhaps we [...] |
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