i have found online practice has been a different constant entry of intimacy with my self in art making. when i am 'making' with others online, i am very by myself in my environment and my quadrant visually. i am not recieving (nor giving) the information/cues/tactileness i thrive on in person, with and from another/others. with no shift of location as a way to decompress at the end of a moving or creation session, it feels demanding in a different way. still trying to make sense of it all. i dont know yet how 1.5 yrs of this will inform what will be of processes begun pre pandemic and also fresh initiatives. i do know my whole being is so much happier now when i am in person in studio, in creation. oh and why not wait til close proximity all that time? bc i crave the making and the collaborating - the connection, the breath, the sound, the laugh, the tear, the effort to understand, the new

more and more curious about less dance is more dance and how the camera takes us there.

beyond the audience, i am thinking about many kinds of partners in the creation of a dance film even if i am setting up a single camera to shoot myself. i become my own partner where the voyeuristic fixed lens and i are structured by its animation possibilities. multiple choreographic senses and choices of eye of camera and edits, all in aesthetic conversation ... and the most fascinating one - intuition.