Each Time
Each Time
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The BillStart date
2023-05-18End date
2023-05-18Research statement
Background Background: This improvised dance was performed in collaboration with composer/musician, Victor Renolds as part of the “The Bill” program at Dancehouse, Naarm/Melbourne, curated by Emily Bowman and Joey Lehrer. The work responded to the premise of The Bill which brings performers with long-term and established improvisation practices together in order to ‘test’ those practices in performance. As well as working with scores which I use as a prompt or a ruse, the real time collaboration with Renolds (composer) explored the performative improvisational relationship across generative forms. Contribution Contribution: For Each Time I referred to the work of Deborah Hay, American dance maker and practitioner who is known for her contribution to the Judson Church in 1960s New York and for her subsequent development of a practice of real time dance making drawing on nonsensical, instructions, conundrums and “what ifs”. For example, Hay’s “What if where I am is what I need cellularly” (Hay 1997 p. xiii) asks the dancer/performer to be hyper aware of something that is, ultimately unknowable. In preparation for the performance of Each Time I worked with an excerpt of Deborah Hay’s libretto (score) for her work Exit. Each time the dance turns to look back, she Significance Significance: Working with scores from Hay’s libretto, I was able expand my perception of my own dancing and performance practices, particularly through generating movement in the presence of an audience. Grappling with the ideas of ”the return”, of memory and of the experience of the past and the present, colliding in the body fed my performance as a product of my ongoing practice, and as a statement about it. Working with Hay’s ideas of recall and memory coupled with the physicality of turning in performance also enabled engagement with questions of habit and my bodily, dancing history.Publication classification
JL3 Live Performance of Creative Works – DanceScale
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Live improvised dance performance. Video of performance: https://vimeo.com/852223557/cb39e9f6c2?share=copyEditor/Contributor(s)
Renolds VEvent
Each TimePublisher
DancehousePlace of publication
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