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FORSYTHE WORKSHOP

In this special workshop, we were introduced to William Forsythe’s thinking, methods, and techniques through a cluster of special activities including: Technique and improvisation classes with Nik Haffner, Physical drawing workshop at the Wexner with Forsythe Company production manager for “You Made Me a Monster” and to conclude the workshop a   Choreographic Objects Symposium.

I wanted to share this experience because it was extremely interesting. The mixture of embodied movement, space, architecture and drawing into a dancer’s process of creation was enriching.

From the beginning of the workshop I felt a sense of sharing. Why sharing? Well, there was this air of willing to know what was the meaning of Forsythe, how does it work working with the body and having at the same time acknowledgment of architecture? How we can mix all those things? and I believe more questions were on the air. When we started the workshop everything began to be clearer. Personally I loved the process. The workshop with Nik was precise, clear and what was most important for me and I guess for all the group was that we had fun. We were sharing different ideas, looking at each other and constructing together with new tools or unexplored ones. Those tools constructed the base to build unexplored movements and thoughts. Nik gave as different task to build those movement and later we were able to move in a different way without leaving any part of our bodies behind, from our fingers to the back of our head. Every single part of our body was working and moving fluently.

Then in the Physical drawing workshop we started to use our hands to built a monster. We were looking for tri dimensionality, curves and volume. We were building a monster, and then we started to shape their shadows. Following their figures, without crossing any lines…maybe is hard to understand everything by words, but please feel free to comment any doubts and I will try to explain my experience in this amazing workshop.

Here are some pictures, of the William Forsythe’s workshop.

 

60×60 show

Today is the big day. I am going to be performing and choreographing at the 60×60 show. I am excited about this experience. There is a lot of challenge into it. Music, time and space. I am performing two pieces one that is going to be about a sexy woman, and the other about a crazy one. Two totally different characters. Is going to be a mixture of dance and theater.

Here is some information about the event, performers, composers and others.

http://www.voxnovus.com/60×60/program/2009_Dance_Wallstreet_Ohio.htm

Vox Novus is partnering with Columbus Movement Movement (cm2) to present 60×60 Dance at Wallstreet Nightclub in Columbus, Ohio. Be sure to come see this exciting performance.
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60×60 – 60 works each 60 seconds to create a one hour art performance.

60×60 is a churning wheel of production, performance and dissemination. Representing an aesthetic and geographic diversity of composers, choreographers, and artists, 60×60 is an annual performance project containing 60 works where each piece is 60 seconds in duration. The mission of 60×60 and its presenter, Vox Novus, is to expose contemporary music, modern dance, experimental video, and other contemporary art forms to the largest audience possible. 60×60 combines grassroots ideology with innovative methods of presentation and distribution. Each year the project grows in artistic and distributive scope. Achieving its initiative, 60×60 presents performances across the globe.

“The idea — 60 new dance pieces are performed to 60 new pieces of music, each lasting no more than 60 seconds — is quite mad. But it’s this kind of madness that makes the cultural world go round…”
- An Express Without Any Delays
By ROSLYN SULCAS, New York Times, November 17, 2008

Note – there are two performances:
First performance: 7:30-8:30
Second performance 9:00-10:00

 

Work in Progress, Trabajo coreográfico en proceso

Me gustaría tener opiniones, sugerencias sobre COMUNICACION y que significa para ustedes.
En este momento estoy en el proceso de creación de una obra, la cual está relacionada a este tema. Básicamente es una obra donde intento mostrar como influye la comunicación en las personas. Mi idea es dejar abierta la percepción del público, mostrando como la comunicación va mas allá de la palabras y como por medio de una señal, la danza o inclusive el simple ESCUCHAR puede cambiar todo.
Vivimos en un mundo con diferentes personas, culturas, idiomas, costumbres y personalidades. La pregunta es: Como nos afecta todo esto en la relación con los otros, y que nos permite comunicarnos realmente?
Hay muchos detalles…basada en mi observación y en mi experiencia, les puedo decir que la comunicación es una de las cosas más importantes en la vida. Inclusive teniendo el mismo idioma, la misma cultura y las mismas costumbres, aun así no siempre las cosas salen como uno espera. Un ejemplo básico y común, sería una relación de pareja, donde la comunicación entre estas dos personas tiene que ser lo más clara y sincera posible para que dure. Al mismo tiempo, tiene un cualidad extraordinaria que es el COMO uno se relaciona…palabras, detalles, caricias, recibir, dar, ceder….y por supuesto el factor química. Eso sería un pantallazo como influye la comunicación entre parejas. Pero mi cuestionamiento va más allá de eso. Estando lejos de mi país y definitivamente ligada a la danza. Mi idea es poner en el escenario esas dificultades en la vida. Lo que para algunos un beso en la mejilla es un saludo, para otras culturas puede ser algo totalmente anormal…como influye eso en la comunicación; como el no poder expresarse con fluidez en un idioma nos limita, como estar alejados de lo que sucede en el mundo nos retiene en una burbuja con conocimientos básicos de lo que nosotros creemos es lo único.
Me gustaría poder escuchar opiniones, comentarios respecto a este proyecto. Y lo más importante saber su punto de vista y experiencias.

 

Current Works, Trabajo reciente

Here is a small project for my dance and technology class, experimenting with Photoshop.

Un pequeño proyecto de mi clase de Danza y Tegnologia, experimentando con Photoshop.