‘time will press on your mind and squelch your creativity’. I can relate to this sentence in Landscape of the Now. When I’m not comfortable, time stretches. I want time to go quick. I feel like it’s been 10 minutes but it’s been 2. This shows the body has a different time to the actual time.
Space is a place we dance in? That is what I thought, but from the readings and lesson I now consider it as an element or partner to the dance.
To start, we had to stand in a space, in any direction and listen. I heard many things that I wouldn’t notice normally. I noticed my breathing, and others that were around, I could also hear people fidget. After a few minutes, we could move and change levels. When my head was on the floor, I heard vibrations from people walking. When I stood near the window, I could slightly hear the wind and a train pass by. Depending on where I was in the room, I could hear the air-con, some places it was louder than others.
The next exercise was to diminish your partners moves, at first it was easy until we were told to make the moves bigger. We all felt silly at some point, due to us putting so much enthusiasm into it.
Final task. Improvise but keep these in mind:
– Enter and exit (walking is banned)
– How will you contribute
– Pick the ‘right’ time to go on
– Replicate
– Echo
– Mirror
– Diminish
I found this session difficult and I couldn’t block out distractions. I feel this was because I was not in the best of moods before.
Bibliography
De Spain, Kent. (2014) Landscape of the Now. New York: Oxford University Press.