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Jun 28, 2021

What do you LACK? What do you GAIN? What do you NEED?

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  • What do you LACK? (general or detailed e.g. too small, no angles)

  • What do you GAIN? (e.g. new skill, privacy)

  • What do you NEED? (future actions)

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maxine
Aug 11, 2021
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What are we doing? Fundamental aspects of dance include existing in shared space, and sharing sensory and kinaesthetic experience, and as these don’t exist online…what...? ? ”

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maxine
Aug 17, 2021
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When I am online with someone, we are sharing at that actual time (even though our clock time may be different). I feel the other person as being "live" I know that I am "live". Even if the sound quality and/or image on screen may be poor we are still having experiences simultaneously.

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maxine
Aug 17, 2021
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Simultaneous solos? or duet?

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lo, she-her
Aug 12, 2021

I miss the sense of connection of being with people in a space. I appreciate not having to spend time going places, but there was a ritual in going to a place to be with people that helped me collect my focus and intention to be in whatever was going to happen. At home, I can focus for an hour. In the studio I could focus for hours. Online there is so much talking. I miss how much could be said without language. I don't care about the new online skills because I don't want to be on the computer anymore, it's an emotional break-up. I still haven't improved my website. I have rested. I can honestly say I have rested to the point wherein I cannot go back to doing too much. Perhaps in this it has helped me become a better decision maker.

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maxine
Aug 12, 2021
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Another one is "rituals" of being in the studio

About "Entering": I noticed a while ago that Going Into my Online workspace has now become a ritual: I have established set ways of reorganizing the room (lighting, furniture), testing the level of the camera, getting comfortable in the room... not unlike entering the studio sweeping the floor, pulling open curtains, choosing a place in the studio to begin my warmup.



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maxine
Aug 12, 2021
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on the "rituals" for preparing physically for online.

I know I have established some and I'd like to write more about this but have to consider a little more.

I welcome others' input!

...oh and I think there is place to write about this in categories: Listening with ones' body, Known artistry (how we prepare), and maybe also Impulse.

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lo, she-her
Aug 14, 2021
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@maxine hi! in reply to your comment, when i wrote "online skills" i meant: how do i practice and develop embodied performance when i am alone in my room and we are connected via a screen. when i wrote the note it also led me to the grief about everything online thus i mention the lack of website upkeep. but it's interesting too, yes? how i show up "online" is a combination of things that has associative resonance in many ways.


i am very used to working and practicing on zoom or every single day for 17 months, 510 days to be exact. but i can't get away from the question "how do i show up online?" when i look at my computer. I suppose when i'm in the studio, i also think in associative ways, how did i show up at the last practice? who am i drawn to hug in the first moments of arrival? what would i like to privately share with this person i haven't seen in awhile? so i think all the reciprocal associative mind processes are going on when i'm online - when was i last with that person? that person commented on my post, that person has something in their screen that creates curiosity for me, that person is smiling...


so for me the "online skill" i am referring to involves developing those inter-relational associations that come naturally and yet there is also a kind of exhaustion around what is missing within the actual conditions of this platform and it's associative inspiration.

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jessica
Aug 24, 2021

Imagining this might be this as an economically propogated/culturally specific issue?

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jpm50go
Aug 15, 2021

I want to dance 'with' you not 'at' you. I want to hear your heart beat pulsing beside mine. I want to catch a glimpse of whimsy, excitement, uncertainty in your eyes. I want to 'read' your movements.


Our human connection is at stake! A connection that reminds us we are flesh and blood; interconnected beings, that communicate with each other on multiple levels via the "live" body and its somatic intelligence.


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maxine
Aug 17, 2021
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I want to dance with you jpm50go !

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jpm50go
Aug 15, 2021

What I mean is the digital space and Artificial Intelligence is permeating almost every aspect of life. As a result we are slowly losing emotional intelligence - feelings we experience in the body within a shared physical environment. So our inner "GPS" that guides us - helps us sense each other within space, is slowly being compromised; perhaps to the point where the actual physical body becomes redundant - or becomes a mechanical instrument rather than a feeling body. I think this will have a direct impact on the dancing body itself... When we can no longer 'read' each other's body language (ie: bodily cues) by being in the same physical space and interacting with each other physically/emotionally/energetically, how we connect/dance/ will inevitably change. I don't know how it will change, but it will. I think the shift to virtual life/living/dancing is a prepping us for what's coming down the pipe. Which may redefine what dance "is."

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jpm50go
Aug 14, 2021

I think we are slowly losing the body as we once knew it to be.

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maxine
Aug 14, 2021
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@jpm50go @jpm50go how so?

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choreomarathon
Aug 15, 2021
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@maxine like forgetting about the flesh and blood and breath? the way gun shots are so clean on tv?

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Yui.U
Aug 13, 2021

Gain: Time, Sense of relief, Care for myself and others

Need: Allow yourself and others that this is a transition of going back and don't stress the process of gaining the physical ability and performativity.


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Yui.U
Aug 13, 2021

Gain: Time, Sense of relief, Care for myself and others

Need: Allow yourself and others that this is a transition of going back and don't stress the process of gaining the physical ability and performativity.


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maxine
Aug 17, 2021
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and as working online continues...for you might physical excellence and performativity loosing its importance?

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choreomarathon
Aug 11, 2021

Gain...Legitimizing those who have been for a long time creating/performing in previously non-conventionalized places. Digital spaces have been used for decades, only under-recognized. Digital is now a place to work. Home is now a place to work. Outside of four (4) walls is a place to work. (from Conversations 2021)

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