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Jun 28, 2021

How are you using your expertise?

in Known artistry
  • How does what you know-and-do-well serve you online?

  • How/what do you prepare-practice for the online room?

  • What is fascinating?

  • What is just necessary?

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maxine
Aug 16, 2021

For live-stream performing/teaching I practice how I frame myself in the screen, and in relation to the actual room I am in.




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lo, she-her
Aug 16, 2021

necessary to relate to the directionality of the frame. i can draw a line along the edge, from edge to edge. i can direct the viewer's gaze. the frame can be mobile. the audience can receive close-ups. i can approach one audience member in a live situation but only that person sees the detail. in the online space everyone can receive that. so it changes the grammar a bit. somethings don't need to be repeated to be seen. other things need to be repeated to be seen - when people are in the room, i can feel if what i have done has been received. I hear or feel their response. online i'm in my own bubble so i may need to repeat something for it to be seen.


my improvisational skills are helping me to dive in, but my improvisational skills are not necessarily helping me be clear because i actually know only what has happened since March 2020 in terms of what i do and what that looks like and how it is received. live improvisation skills have been developed over 40 years. so skills help but everything is in a new frame and so i have beginners mind and i also have beginners luck or mistaken judgement... !

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maxine
Aug 16, 2021
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"It changes the Grammar..."

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maxine
Aug 13, 2021

A skill I am using a lot is describing while I am moving. It helps the dancers know about what they can't see through the screen. I so this when creating in-studio also but I think that that is as much for myself to clarify to myself what and how I am searching for the movement we are creating. Describing while moving (when online) is more for the dancers. It doesn't seem to be so difficult for them to pick up on the body shapes and directions. The describing seems to be bringing us to the same realm for interpretation. For example: My hands are on my shoulders. I slowly reach my arms sideways away from each other. While doing this I say: my breath is pulsing in my upper back. that energizes my shoulders to widen, my elbows to unfold, my skin stretches over bones, fingers reach outwards".


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lo, she-her
Aug 18, 2021
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yes, i like how you do this describing in the studio and i think it would be a great gift in the online situation where we can't really see one another.


i often try describing as a development tool for new material. i believe we have practiced that skill in your classes, Maxine. what am i doing and why? calling myself out. letting language direct movement and movement direct language.

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choreomarathon
Aug 11, 2021

As dancers, we’re so good at imagining and interpreting. We’re always adapting and bringing in story – if we can do that in the studio, can we just shift the skills to online? It seems like the answer would be yes. But I don't know how yet. Any ideas from anyone else? (from Conversations 2021)

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