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Still by Kiki Smith

We decided to review S H A P E and S P A C E :

massage
the face
the jaw
the cheek bones
the skull
the ears
the neck
the shoulders
the chest
the upper arms
the elbows - the pickle
the fore arms
the wrists
the hands
the fingers
the rib cage- front side back
the whole thorax
the belly
the lower back
the hips
the upper thighs
the knees
especially the back of the knees
the calves
the ankles
the top of the foot
now the feet

massage
the feet

then...

We begin to attune the awareness and deconstruct our perception so that we may realize space more fully. So instruct the group through the following practices while guiding them through the principle qualities of the viewpoints and encourage disciplined isolation. :

• choose a space in the room to go to
• precisely visualize yourself going there
• be specific about the pathway you take to get there
• once you've completed the visualization, do it. Execute.
• You arrive.
• And again, choose another space in the room
• visualize your pathway very specifically and the way you travel along the pathway
• (notice the dynamics shifting and changing within the viewpoints: relationships)

We begin to integrate shape with stillness. I stop the group in the middle or at the end of a journey and ask them to close their eyes. I guide them through at least 5 or so minutes of internal exploration of shape with their eyes closed.

notice the boundaries of the body, where the skin and the air meet, where it stops and starts. Sensing the geometry and architecture with pure sense, without the eyes. Developing a different kind of seeing and vision. Is it contained or not contained? Does this work or does this work?


O P E N I M P R O V I S A T I O N A L S C O R E

Is the beginning the most important? Wait. Be patience. Go slow. Trust. GO. A small group, only 4 of us. Very intimate and simple. Because there were less of us there was more space in the room. We had the ocean going the whole time. It was kind of washing over and under the whole scene. And in the duller moments, the slower moments, the open moments, the quiet moments...

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Weaving the dialogue of the four performers together. We could keep track of each other better I think. And it didn't need to really make perfect sense in order for it to work. It was very cohesive. Some marriage of simplicity and complexity. Characters... personalities... qualities of the individuals. My politics seeped out. Some winding genteel swooping leaked all over. The wild game changer got the wiggles out. St patty's day people soaked through.

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IODINE IN THE SALT
BABIES IN THE BOTTLES
PRESIDENT IN THE NATION
DESCRIMINATION


....cawing ....screeching

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Rene Magritte