General working online

referring to your experiences as a dance artist working online:  

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)

 

Listening with one’s Body

Are you maintaining the somatic base of your dance? listening with your body/spirit? How?

Are you fulfilling that function in other ways?

 

Imagination

perceiving what is not actually present

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Where is Imagination

When creating? (choreographer, director, interpreter)

When receiving? (viewer student, teacher, creative circle)

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Intuition

accessing all you know without conscious effort

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Where is Intuition

When creating? (choreographer, director, interpreter)

When receiving? (viewer student, teacher, creative circle)

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Connectivity

between artists

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How do you & collaborators connect?

What has to be explicit? (e.g. can’t “sense” X so discuss more)

How is working with known vs new colleagues?

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Digital room as workplace:

being together in the screen room

Is online changing rehearsal structure/flow/setup/time? How?

What interpersonal interactions do you encourage-nurture-discourage-need? How?

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Attention

How do you filter the actual room (e.g. your home) to concentrate in the virtual room?

How do you bridge the flat online to 3D understanding?

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Energy consumption

Does online feed or rob you?

How do you prepare for online vs studio?

How are your energy levels and transfer different?

What is the impact on co-artists? on the work?

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Energy production

How is the screen an energetic performance space?

What performance techniques do you use to energize online movement?

What choreographic techniques do you use to create energy of the dance?

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Creating in the digital room

Is the online space generative? Describe

Is the work a placeholder? For what?

Is the material skeleton-propositions for later development? How?

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Dance/movement Material

Are you starting from scratch? working with previous studio material? Differences?

Does the digital room change your choices? the idea?

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Impulse

Where does Impulse live in all this?

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Known Artistry

How are you using your expertise?

How does what you know-and-do-well serve you online?

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

What is fascinating? Just necessary?

 

Learning Artistry

What have you been learning?

For effective online creation/rehearsal, what do you need to practice? to learn?

Are you conscious of changes in your work? Describe?

 

Inspiring Artistry

Perceptions, Forms, Experience?

How are you working with no shared kinaesthetic experience?

Are your perceptions altering? What? How?

Is a new form developing for you? Describe

 

Why online

Why not just wait until you can be in close proximity in the studio?

 

Is it Dance?

Is your dance as you know it transforming? Describe?

Is your dance being subjugated to film-making norms?

Is your online work still Dance? How?

 

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