Carbon to Carbon

Quartet - Research Phase 1

The Workroom

12^th – 18^th Dec 2012

Working Title: ‘Through Our Eyes’

Materials: String, Video, tapes, video camera, newspaper, notebook, sketchbook, computer.

Elements: Space, Body, Time

Embodied Themes: Transience, Constant, Continuum, Gap, Inner to Outer

Space: Pathway, Internal/External

Body: Falling body, Effect of light and sound, Effect of vision/focus on movement.

Time: 1 hour, 0.001s – 15.00

Movement Stimulus: The moment you decide to jump or to let go, Being tripped up. Imagery: Journey colour, speed. Mapping a journey, what do you see? Internal imagery: organs; colour shape, texture.

Movement Concepts: Unravelling, How to create a ‘space hold’. How to freeze time.

Movement Tasks: Repetition, beginning to set a phrase of movement. A tumbling phrase, in and out of the floor. Create a phrase with high extensions/off balance. Follow an impulse till it reaches it’s perceived end by yourself and and/or another.

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References:

• Julyen Hamilton – ‘Inclusion of other’

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5877876144668339268

• Deborah Hay - Improvisation

• Rick Nodine, Renate Graziadei, Arthur Staldi – Training Exercises

• Mary Starks Whitehouse – Authentic movement/improvisation

Schedule

	11.00 – 12.00		12.00 – 13.00	13.00 – 14.00		14.00 – 16.00
Mon						Training and Improvisation
Tue	Training		Improvisation	Lunch		Composition/Improvisation
Wed	-		-	-		-
Thu	Training		Improvisation	Lunch		Composition/Improvisation
Fri	Training		Improvisation	Lunch		Composition/Improvisation
Sat	Training		Improvisation			2pm Studio Performance
Sun	-		-	-		-