Jerwood Bank 2007

Duration: 02:20 minutes

Jia-Yu filmed on the 4th September.
Duration: 57 seconds

Since last Thursday we’ve had tasks that take me outside of my frame and it feels really good. These new adventures have also shifted my main focus away from choreographic devices and into awareness in performance craft (don’t know if that’s right way to put it). After all the turning and twisting of one original move, I quite enjoyed editing the material from the last showing this afternoon, though more work’s still needed before tomorrow’s showing.

Jia-Yu’s clip from the 29th August.
Duration: 38 seconds

I am flying . I am enjoying this and the pain in my right knee and the right side of my sacrum is the witness of that. I got a bit emotional in Eva’s class and  it somehow helped clear the entry point for the afternoon. Sarah’s suggestion to use the poem as an anchor for movement manipulation gave me a lid off moment and I could see the outline of my making. It’s still rough but I feel I’ve got something I like to work on.

Today felt heavy with sensorial and intellectual properties in my head and body. In the afternoon, I was reluctant to move as if that would alter the state where images and stories were forming. On the other hand, I was  eager to engage with the words and shapes that I feel connected to. Moments like this always make me panic. Moments when I feel confronted by complete emptyness, a white canvas, with lots of pontential, but blank.

The following is what I wrote last night but failed to log on to the bank07 site.

Today felt like i had entered into the process. I had fun exploring the material and getting into the next level when we started condensing,editing and clarifying the thoughts and the movement events. But when we showed our material to a partner, either my thought became blurred or my movement lost the essence of the original idea. It’s like the context and the movement event wouldn’t connect. For what I can see, I had mainly relied on the physical impulses or actions to form thoughts,images or pathways of the breathe and I wonder whether I should try the other way around. Well, I’ll do that tomorrow.
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