no warm up
following, watching, thinking about what might happen here for the first 'Groups:Meetings' session.
I am hooking into the music as a way of beginning, really allowing myself to be influenced by it. Now, I am a little more skilled at using my memory of previous improvisations in order to allow movement to re-emerge and re-configure it for new music. How do you allow yourself to change? Do you change?
Where does all the repetition come from?
Everything seems to hark back to a place of Giaconto Scelsi- listening to and working with this in the studio in March 2009.
And now, I become obsessed with my ipod. Deafening myself with Keith Richards, closing off the world and creating another world.
It's the first 'Groups:Meetings' session in two days. What will I do? Everything is available to be viewed- even the messy bits that I would usually choose not to show- to keep unrevealed.
How do people read you; your work; and all that in relation to your history.
I could find something else and show that
Why do I want others involved?
Maybe it will prevent me from making the same decisions. Make it messy. Mess up the process. Invite people to see the process, however boring.
I ask a lot of others....why should they care about a working process.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
FAREWELL TO SUMMER BBQ AT DANCEHOUSE
FAREWELL TO SUMMER BBQ
Featuring showings by:
Rob McCredie
Deanne Butterworth &
The EGG Collective - Sarah Cooper, Hayden Annable, Faith Bolton, Sally Kuhle & Melanie Trojkovic.
Dancehouse’s Summer Space Grant Program 2009/2010 provides artists with 30 hours of studio space to develop ideas in relation to a specific outcome, experiment with new modes of performance and to continue their creative practice.
Rob McCredie will present an installation performance piece, EGG will return from performing in the Adelaide Fringe Festival with an excerpt of their work and Deanne Butterworth and Michael Munson, will present a short video piece.
WHAT A SUMMER SMORGASBORD!
An informal conversation with the artists will be facilitated by Carlee Mellow; discussing strategies and opportunities, like the Summer Space Grant Program, that independent artists can use to assist in the development and presentation of their work.
This will be followed by a BBQ in the Dancehouse garden.
When: Friday March 5th @ 5.30pm
Where: Sylvia Staehli Theatre
Let’s bid farewell to Summer with good conversation, dance and an iconic Aussie tradition.
Featuring showings by:
Rob McCredie
Deanne Butterworth &
The EGG Collective - Sarah Cooper, Hayden Annable, Faith Bolton, Sally Kuhle & Melanie Trojkovic.
Dancehouse’s Summer Space Grant Program 2009/2010 provides artists with 30 hours of studio space to develop ideas in relation to a specific outcome, experiment with new modes of performance and to continue their creative practice.
Rob McCredie will present an installation performance piece, EGG will return from performing in the Adelaide Fringe Festival with an excerpt of their work and Deanne Butterworth and Michael Munson, will present a short video piece.
WHAT A SUMMER SMORGASBORD!
An informal conversation with the artists will be facilitated by Carlee Mellow; discussing strategies and opportunities, like the Summer Space Grant Program, that independent artists can use to assist in the development and presentation of their work.
This will be followed by a BBQ in the Dancehouse garden.
When: Friday March 5th @ 5.30pm
Where: Sylvia Staehli Theatre
Let’s bid farewell to Summer with good conversation, dance and an iconic Aussie tradition.
the idea of GROUPS:MEETINGS
I am currently undertaking a residency at Dancehouse as a part of the Housemate program. I am Housemate V.
From February to July this year I will be working in the Dancehouse studios. One component of the residency involves developing a new solo work which will be performed at Dancehouse in July 2010. The other component involves others coming to the studio to participate in a series of forums called, ‘Groups : Meetings’. I would like to invite you to be a participant in these forums.
‘Groups : Meetings’ will operate alongside the developing solo work. These ongoing weekly forums are intended to allow the participants the opportunity to exchange with one another. In some ways, ‘Groups : Meetings’ will operate on the principles of self-organization, i.e., the participants become the organisers and decide what happens in each session. The only certain component in these sessions is that I will show something of the developing solo work, (working title ‘Habitus’) and then there will be the opportunity to comment on that, or, introduce something else.
My motivation to do this during the residency is simply to open up a working process so that others can participate in it and so that I can be more articulate with others.
There is no ongoing commitment required from the participants of ‘Groups : Meetings’. You can choose to attend one session or many. I imagine they will go for less than 2 hours. Some sessions will have many participants, and some will have only a few. I am choosing to leave it quite open to allow for more possibilities and see how it evolves. The invited participants are not exclusively dancers- they can be anyone involved in performance in one way or another or just have an interest in participating.
‘Groups : Meetings’ will be documented (filmed, stills or sound) and uploaded onto the Housemate V blog.
I propose the first ‘Groups : Meetings’ will occur on Friday 26th February from 10am-12pm and the next one will happen on Tuesday 2nd March 4-6pm.
Feel free to pass this on to others whom you think might be interested. Please contact me if you would like more information.
Looking forward to hearing from you
Deanne
deanne_butterworth@yahoo.com.au
http://www.dancehouse.com.au/research/
From February to July this year I will be working in the Dancehouse studios. One component of the residency involves developing a new solo work which will be performed at Dancehouse in July 2010. The other component involves others coming to the studio to participate in a series of forums called, ‘Groups : Meetings’. I would like to invite you to be a participant in these forums.
‘Groups : Meetings’ will operate alongside the developing solo work. These ongoing weekly forums are intended to allow the participants the opportunity to exchange with one another. In some ways, ‘Groups : Meetings’ will operate on the principles of self-organization, i.e., the participants become the organisers and decide what happens in each session. The only certain component in these sessions is that I will show something of the developing solo work, (working title ‘Habitus’) and then there will be the opportunity to comment on that, or, introduce something else.
My motivation to do this during the residency is simply to open up a working process so that others can participate in it and so that I can be more articulate with others.
There is no ongoing commitment required from the participants of ‘Groups : Meetings’. You can choose to attend one session or many. I imagine they will go for less than 2 hours. Some sessions will have many participants, and some will have only a few. I am choosing to leave it quite open to allow for more possibilities and see how it evolves. The invited participants are not exclusively dancers- they can be anyone involved in performance in one way or another or just have an interest in participating.
‘Groups : Meetings’ will be documented (filmed, stills or sound) and uploaded onto the Housemate V blog.
I propose the first ‘Groups : Meetings’ will occur on Friday 26th February from 10am-12pm and the next one will happen on Tuesday 2nd March 4-6pm.
Feel free to pass this on to others whom you think might be interested. Please contact me if you would like more information.
Looking forward to hearing from you
Deanne
deanne_butterworth@yahoo.com.au
http://www.dancehouse.com.au/research/
the end on the first day
We played a game.
Absolutely everything has been decided about this solo work:
what it will be, how it will look, what it will sound like.
In fact now we rehearse the 40 minute work for the next six months. You see, we had a discussion using a few of the performative tools available at www.everybodystoolbox.net. We didn't just use one, we mixed a few of them together and developed a fantastical scenario for a performance work.
'We' is myself and Michael Munson who will be creating the sound for the work which was created in one session, on the first day of the Housemate V residency.
It was a very nice starting point to think about the end.
Absolutely everything has been decided about this solo work:
what it will be, how it will look, what it will sound like.
In fact now we rehearse the 40 minute work for the next six months. You see, we had a discussion using a few of the performative tools available at www.everybodystoolbox.net. We didn't just use one, we mixed a few of them together and developed a fantastical scenario for a performance work.
'We' is myself and Michael Munson who will be creating the sound for the work which was created in one session, on the first day of the Housemate V residency.
It was a very nice starting point to think about the end.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
artillery for a housemate
space- dancehouse
time- 6 months
one idea, and some
people
me
michael munson
and other people
sound
light
game toolbox (everybodys)
notebook
camera
video camera
cd's
ipod
history
knowledge
experience
boredom
the end of something
the beginning of something else
starting
and other things that I do not yet know
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