Screen Dance

Improvisation to music

Note to self: Dancing to music that you love is difficult.

2 People Improv:

Slow,Feet,TurnedIn,Arms,Linear,Swipe,Echo,Animals,Patterns,Tree,Air,Noise,HandtoNeck,EyeContact,LackofContact,Soft,Serious,Closed.

My second year performance art/ screen dance project. Thoughts are welcome/appreciated.

Does anyone really think this?

Would you think the same of me if I lied about killing someone compared with lying about liking your new haircut? Can they really have the same impact?

(Source: insanecreepster)

What does it mean to be human?

When we researched about language being pretty much unique to humans, we decided that the act of a spoken lie is unique too.

What happens to your body when you lie, internally and externally?

How can some people be so calm on the outside, when the lie is doing so much to their body on the inside?

How can we show this through film…?

Ian Tattersall, anthropologist: “It’s not “what is human,” but what is unique: our extraordinary form of symbolic cognition.”

Nikolas Rose, sociologist: “Language and representation. We are the kind of creatures that ask those questions of ourselves.”

Antonio Damasio, neuroscientist: “The critical unique factor is language. Creativity. The religious and scientific impulse. And our social organization, which has developed to a prodigious degree. We have a record of history, moral behavior, economics, political and social institutions. We’re probably unique in our ability to investigate the future, imagine outcomes, and display images in our minds.”

Quotes taken from here.

‘Autobiographical Performance Art’ and ‘Embodying Site’ are this years topics for making our dance films, and I’m coming back to blogging to document my thoughts and research in a way that I can look back over when we come to create a portfolio. (‘We’ being me and a classmate.)

According to the ‘Tate’ website, in relation to performance art Joseph Beuys is/was a hugely influential artist that I should be looking at, they (The Tate) describe his work as, “powerful expressions of the pain of human existence, and complex allegories of social and political issues and man’s relationship to nature.”

Joseph Beuys 

From the Eurasien Staff

1973

As for ‘Embodying Site’ work the following quote describes what I understand ‘Embodying site’ to be, before really looking into it deeper.

“For me, a work is site-specific when everything, including your inspiration, comes from the location so that the material itself couldn’t be done somewhere else,” - Debra Loewen 

The following posts will be done so with ‘Autobiographical Performance Art’ and/or ‘Embodying Site’ in mind.