Trisha Paxton Dance︎︎︎
This dance is a collision of Trisha Brown’s ‘Set and
Reset’ and Steve Paxton’s ‘Magnesium’. I have analyzed both pieces and using
the same game as Pandora* I have gathered a bunch of principles to make this
new dance that I call ‘Trish Paxton Dance-.
Trisha Paxton Dance has been as part of The Pandora Project, an analogical band working on the continuous feedback between practice and theory; developing strategies to practice pedagogy, research and performance always already interrelated; using and abusing the knowledge of dance.
This dance is originally performed by Maria Mavidou, Nina Fajdiga, Javier Vaquero Ollero and Aimar Perez Gail.
The dance should be done by a group of minimum 4 dancers. The group should stay together during the whole dance and travel through the space as a group, dealing with collisions. There is no lengths it, but I recommend not doing it shorter than 10 minutes. You may want to play music or do it in silence. Try different versions and see how it affects the dance, I’m doing it and observing it.
Instructions:
Read the principles and make sure you understand them. There’s no one true way to understand the principles, however you understand it is the right way. During the dance you will navigate through all the principles, do not attempt to dance all the principles at the same time. It’s impossible, at least on a conscious level.
Negotiate as a group the starting spot in space. When it starts is the right moment, when it ends is the right time.
The principals:
General Principals:
- Expand / Compression
- Departure / Arrival
- Appropriation
Principals of Mechanics of the human body
- Patterns of total body connectivity (homolateral, homologus, contralateral).
- Movements of the joints (e.g.: flexion, extension, rotation, adduction, supination, etc.)
- Bone- The skeletal system
- Synovial fluid (the fluid in the joints: undirected, carefree, loose, unexpected)
Principals of Movement in time and space
- Pendulum
- Planes of action (lateral, frontal, sagittal)
- Passing through this and that
Principals of Interpretation and Limitation
- Disorganised
- Drop the plan
- Unpredictable dance
- Surprise yourself / Surprise the other
- Collision
Inspiring Quotes:
- Alignment is a thought - F.M. Alexander
- A dynamic state, in a dynamic subject, in the middle of dynamic processes.
- Principals of causality: Everything moves because of another
- More and more of lass and less
*** you may want to do the same game with two other pieces. Take two works that you are fascinated with and try to extract the principals of each piece. Put them together, colliding both works, and see what comes out!
Trisha Paxton Dance has been as part of The Pandora Project, an analogical band working on the continuous feedback between practice and theory; developing strategies to practice pedagogy, research and performance always already interrelated; using and abusing the knowledge of dance.
This dance is originally performed by Maria Mavidou, Nina Fajdiga, Javier Vaquero Ollero and Aimar Perez Gail.
The dance should be done by a group of minimum 4 dancers. The group should stay together during the whole dance and travel through the space as a group, dealing with collisions. There is no lengths it, but I recommend not doing it shorter than 10 minutes. You may want to play music or do it in silence. Try different versions and see how it affects the dance, I’m doing it and observing it.
Instructions:
Read the principles and make sure you understand them. There’s no one true way to understand the principles, however you understand it is the right way. During the dance you will navigate through all the principles, do not attempt to dance all the principles at the same time. It’s impossible, at least on a conscious level.
Negotiate as a group the starting spot in space. When it starts is the right moment, when it ends is the right time.
The principals:
General Principals:
- Expand / Compression
- Departure / Arrival
- Appropriation
Principals of Mechanics of the human body
- Patterns of total body connectivity (homolateral, homologus, contralateral).
- Movements of the joints (e.g.: flexion, extension, rotation, adduction, supination, etc.)
- Bone- The skeletal system
- Synovial fluid (the fluid in the joints: undirected, carefree, loose, unexpected)
Principals of Movement in time and space
- Pendulum
- Planes of action (lateral, frontal, sagittal)
- Passing through this and that
Principals of Interpretation and Limitation
- Disorganised
- Drop the plan
- Unpredictable dance
- Surprise yourself / Surprise the other
- Collision
Inspiring Quotes:
- Alignment is a thought - F.M. Alexander
- A dynamic state, in a dynamic subject, in the middle of dynamic processes.
- Principals of causality: Everything moves because of another
- More and more of lass and less
*** you may want to do the same game with two other pieces. Take two works that you are fascinated with and try to extract the principals of each piece. Put them together, colliding both works, and see what comes out!
Welcome to mapping collaboration, a toolbox for workshopping and creating across disciplines...
In spite of a long history of interdisciplinary creation, from our earliest recorded arts to our present moment, artistic pedagogy has created divisions between disciplines. This has left artists in a "post-Babel" condition where we don't share the same language and definitions. It’s also encouraged artists to develop practices for devising, creating and composing work that are distinct to their disciplines.
In spite of a long history of interdisciplinary creation, from our earliest recorded arts to our present moment, artistic pedagogy has created divisions between disciplines. This has left artists in a "post-Babel" condition where we don't share the same language and definitions. It’s also encouraged artists to develop practices for devising, creating and composing work that are distinct to their disciplines.
The inspiration for this project came from faculty and students at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts where BFA, MFA and PhD programs in Dance, Theatre Production and Design, Visual Art, Film, and Music and Sound all work together in studio settings and playfully experiment with processes of art-making.
We wanted to create a database of projects, assignments and theory that we collect inside the studio and from research happening in other places. We are curious about how we collaborate and how structures reoccur, translate and deviate from one discipline to another.
Composition is central to these processes and offers a base for our approaches and experiments. We are excited about what our students are doing and inspired by the new languages in contemporary art and performance we continue to see develop.
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︎︎︎these tools are collected and used in workshops and classes; some are resources from artists; some are quotes about art-making and how bodies think and listen; others are ideas to expand and disrupt your own training and processes.
︎︎︎Each idea is intentially short- and not meant to be executed as written, but to be adapted to your own practice and specific project/context. Some may be taken in parts or combined with others to spark new ways of training and making together.
︎︎︎submit your own ideas and tools so we can keep building this site!
︎︎︎select a category above to build assignments, learn more about how artists process ideas across disciplines and to create a collaborative process of your own
︎︎︎these tools are collected and used in workshops and classes; some are resources from artists; some are quotes about art-making and how bodies think and listen; others are ideas to expand and disrupt your own training and processes.
︎︎︎Each idea is intentially short- and not meant to be executed as written, but to be adapted to your own practice and specific project/context. Some may be taken in parts or combined with others to spark new ways of training and making together.
︎︎︎submit your own ideas and tools so we can keep building this site!
