With Carol Ockman, Netta Yerushamly, and Julia Foulkes
- what does it mean to live in a body over time? to know that you are going to die in it?
- “we’re commiting to shapes, to sound very… thin”
- what a form can be and what it can do and what it could hold
- contraction: it’s not a force i usually apply. !!! so interesting!
- netta: we’re trying them on, these classic dances , and yet in some way we were birthed through these moves.
- what… is a contraction?
- i have more trauma from ballet, and feeling like i can’t fit into the forms
- “i know i’m doing something wrong because it doesn’t feel that bad”
- “why always a return to antiquity” “it might be safer”
- to have rehearsed a move over 20 years…
- Thinking about the head to toe read how it seemed to mark the body as symbol, ahistorical, and yet ways in which it absolutely pushed against that, writhing beautiful around the speaker, continuing through the end of the performance
- thinking about Helen Molesworth’s house work ? The Juddian repetition, one thing after another that makes a woman’s chores
- Love the idea of a body that remembers, whether through twenty years of practice or something else, something deeper. Blew my mind absolutely this entire vocabulary. Wtf is a contraction? Let me put my notes up actually.