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/