The DANSCROSS 2009 Blog which follows is now presented chronologically as an archived blog narrative.
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The DANSCROSS 2009 Blog which follows is now presented chronologically as an archived blog narrative. Photos from the rehearsal of the Chinese choreographer Zhang Yunfeng
[...] I’ve been in Beijing for three days now, spending time in the studio both with Shobana Jeyasingh and Zhang Yunfeng and their respective dancers. In Shobana’s case in particular, the choreographic process is a process of working out what the choreography is. This gives me food for thought – but it also begs a question [...] Because this trip was arranged quite late, it took a while for final ethics approval to come through from my university for things like formal interviews and video documentation. Up until then, this was the only picture I took. No human subjects! There are many studios like this at the BDA – seven per [...] In a short presentation to the group yesterday, I described the choreographer Zhang Junfeng as having a velevety Chinese smoker’s voice. He talks a lot to his dancers as he works with them. The tone is soft, almost hypnotic; the voice deep, though not so much rough or gravelly as richly burred. It’s a [...] I have just found a video of Elisabeth Gilbert talking about the artist creation process (see link below). As DanceCross questions this matter, among others, I wanted to share this with you all. It is just 15min, it’s worth watching until the end (when the dancer and the “olé!” are brought together!). Avatâra [...] Both of you! How can I refuse a summons like that? (Paul’s ‘Over to you, Jay’, below) I arrived in Beijing midway through phase one of the project. I can’t comment with any authority or conviction on the choreographic process, because I entered the studio and saw nearly finished dances being rehearsed. So I am going to talk [...] I read that Dancross is designed to facilitate inter-cultural collaboration and I’m thinking about what that term might mean in this context. In the US and in Britain, when we speak of ‘intercultural’ dance work, we refer to movement languages, an exchange between the vocabularies (units of movement) and syntaxes (systems of organization) of different [...] Click the links below to see the video: > Shobana Jeyasingh video clip > Zhang Yunfeng video clip [...] Ok… it may appear that I have been hiding… but I have been here in Beijing for almost 5 days now swimming in thoughts & actions… I am in my hotel room (gorgeous room that it is) I have a can of (luke warm) Tsing Tao beer & music playing & the sun is setting [...] Now, back in London, I have had some time to think about the experience of being in Beijing, working with Shobana and the dancers in the studio. What was my position in the project? As Paul Rae suggested to me in one of our inspiring conversations, I could say I was a kind of translator [...] Where else on earth can one sit, have a delicious Chinese lunch, an iced-coffee complete with a mountain of whipped cream, write on the ResCen blog & have a cigarette ??? My last day of my first week – I return to Hong Kong this evening. It will be good to have a distance of [...] Shobana and Zhang Yunfeng have completed rehearsals and have left the studio, Zhao Ming and John then enter the studio and start new rehearsals with the dancers. Paul, Janet, Mu Yu and Zhang Ping have completed the observing and thinking, and left the studio; Anita, Liu Chun, Jin Hao then enter the studio and [...] Things contextual and cultural Where to start from … and I have tried to start three times and changed my mind each time! I finally decide to start with a question about the context in which John (Utans) and I find ourselves in this project. We both work at the HKAPA (Hong Kong Academy for [...] #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ #gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-2 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-2 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Getting There. So – I enter a liminal space that begins at the airport, when everything I am doing ceases to be and everything I am about to do has not begun. The moment of traveling. The moment of being in between places that is simultaneously a moment of here and now. There is nowhere [...] #gallery-3 { margin: auto; } #gallery-3 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } #gallery-3 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-3 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Day 1 A diamond in the heart. Summary: a rich, full and fast day. Kerry introduces her movement language, through class exercises, [...] |
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