about body-space position & attention
“when I still my body, I can track the movement of my interior life” , M.van Imschoot
She talks about stillness in space and stillness in movement. She
speaks about becoming more aware of her senses reaching inward and outward into space, and the movement in the environment around her, while still. She adds that this perception is important to the dancer but not specially of use to the observer.
she also speaks about the state of attention induced by the relative stillness of sitting in a chair and looking at sth. She sees the space as a canvas to her imagination that would prompt the desire for a new movement or relationship in or of the space.
And at this point she mentions 2 qualities of the observer’s attention. The one she calls it ‘innervation’, activate to explore, like a detective exploring the food on his/her plate, or the action of the performance, where the mind imagination and its associations are very alive. Then from this points comes the ‘entrance’, where the audience becomes entranced, no longer actively perceiving but is taken to a journey out of the body. ‘Your body becomes so entrained that…you don’ t noticed your leg is falling asleep’ under you.
Finally she claims that the performer reaches a high state in performing when both states, activated in the mind & imagination while being entranced in the action, happening together.
But she thinks that the observer shifts from one to the other. And that often she as an observer is not in either (??)
source coreographic encounters
what about the movement of the fabric on the body?
reading about fashion communication, I found this nice paragraph where it underlines the pleasure of feeling the clothing on the skin and the pleasure of the movement of the dress while body moves. -source is to be posted- And it came in mind the airy clothes of the dancers how they move along with the bodies.
It’s a liberal flow that occures when the clothing is flexible by material and design. ~creating a dress with leds that lights on by movement am not sure how much this can give a nice feeling of body expression (will see..)
