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The Body as it is Discovered in the Present
The Body as it is Discovered in the Present
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Coburg Train Station, MelbourneOpen access
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2022-04-09End date
2022-04-09Language
engResearch statement
Background This durational improvised dance (3 hrs), performed as part of the “Evidence of Live” program in MoreArt arose from my ongoing weekly practice of dancing with scores. The scores for each week are often lists of single words or phrases. The primary purpose of the scores is to make dancing available. The dancing that arises when dancing with scores has an indirect, abstract or poetic relationship to the words of the scores. For this work, the body as it is discovered in the present, there were two additional element to the work: the space that work took place in which was the surrounds of the Coburg train station. Contribution For this performed work I generated a collection of scores about the body and they way the body might be perceived, subjectively or objectively. I wrote the scores with chalk on the ground in the areas surrounding the train station where I executed my three-hour performance. The scores were: The body as a physical entity The body as the representation of a human The enlivened body, dancing The body as it is discovered in the present The body as identity The body we live in The body we challenge The body we resent The body that feels unfamiliar The body we are bored with The body that tells us what we know Significance Over time, years, I have developed a sort of style with my score writing without actually consciously describing or naming the style. In fact, that is also how I like to dance. The most enjoyable dancing time is when I know I am somewhere but I don’t know where that is. I feel interested and committed to that ‘state’ though. I believe in it and I have some clues about what it is without knowing the whole of it. I name some things about it to myself, usually in the form of how words from the scores are linked to or opening up what I am doing, but I don’t ever completely decide or know what I am doing.Publication classification
JL3 Live Performance of Creative Works – DanceScale
NTRO MinorExtent
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Lee K, Irwin MEvent
Evidence of Life: the Low-Line. Event (2022 : Coburg Train Station)Publisher
MoreArt 22Place of publication
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