Discussion Day Blog

What Skills are Required of the Dancer and Poet to Produce Poetry and Dance in Performance? REPORT? What are the different/similar processes of languaging and moving?  (VIDA) Typed How Do I Start to Work In A Studio? (STEFANIE) Typed How can I get beyond my resistance and perform regularly (KATE) How does the poem remain...

What are the elements that are lost in translation? - Is it lost or transformation? - Do we need to be understood? and is it important in performance for the audience to know your intension, mood, atmosphere? - Perhaps mix any languages/sound that resonate and capture the intension of that moment. What happens physically when...

Topic: what can Poetry be in dance? what can Dance be in poetry? You can listen to the first part of the discussion here:   https://www.spaceandwordsfordancers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Saries-Discussion.mp3 List of participants (if known): SJ Robert Sarie Julyen Antonio Martino Margaret ---------------------- Discussion / recommendations / next steps... Lots of loops into the fact that, historically, dance and...

Evening News: Evening News from OS Poetry and Dance The most important priority that emerged from today for those who felt they could share… Discovering the principal with instant composition. Rethinking relationship to words on a page.   Remain open and fully invested in what you’re doing here rather than thinking of outcomes or what you...

Topic: How do I get paid for my work Topic leader: Kathleen Downie Other people who attended: Delphine – came at the start and mostly we talked alone. Later Suzanne, Billie Hanne and someone else whos name I didn’t catch came. Its about having an external reason/energy/context to make work. For the world to receive...

TOPIC TITLE: What To Do About Technology? NAME OF PERSON CONVENING: ROBERT VESTY LIST OF PARTICIPANTS VIDA MIGELOW ROBERT VESTY JULYEN HAMILTON SUSAN KEMPSTER ______________________________________________________________________________________ Discussions / Recommendations / Next Step: I called this because I know how integral technology is to Julyen and Billie’s work, both within it often but also as a way...

Pieces THE PURSUIT BENCE a pre-written text, written by Bence a dialogue or monologue the subject of the text: philosophy of trying to reach beauty in life. When the object of desire is beauty, what does one do to get it. A philosophical deconstruction of beauty, how this is present in reality, how we seek...

Topic: How does a poem remain a poem in movement? Topic champion: Scott Those who assisted (in order of appearance): Manou, Billie, Antonio, Maria, Rob Topics we spoke about: -Words on paper versus words in space (memorisation vs page) -Set words versus instantly composed words -Improvisation vs instant composition vs live-editing -A performance being contained...

Topic Title:   How are you receiving dance and poetry- through which technologies and situations? Name of person who called the session:     JULYEN   List of Participants: N/A     ________________________________________________   Discussion / Recommendations / Next Steps:     “GONE FISHING - HAPPILY SO” (signed Julyen)