Scores

Through processes of moving, witnessing each other and reflecting on the moving process, we co-develop scores which we return to again and again. Out of this cyclical practice, we are slowly accumulating movement material/imagery which reflects the content/subject matter that is surfacing between us and which responds sensitively to the places in which we are working.

Grounding Score

Grounding Score 1.6

(Leicester, Sept 22)

inviting the tactility 
of the space
into the body

listening

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bone to ground
joints to corner

jointed
pliant tissues

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elastic stillness

outer edges of feet

the floor 
speaking back

allowing the space 
to imprint the body

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edgeless-ness
(continuity unfolding)

kneading the space

feeling into boundaries

Shaping Overscore 

(Sept 2022)

Following spirals
Taking them to a point
The endpoint of that trajectory
Holding stillness
Elastic extension in the stillness (drawing out)

That then rebounds/redirects

(M remarked that this score functions as a kind of opening)

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The ‘spatial behaviour’ of this score is about allowing the space to become present.

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Ground is very important anchor in the score

Awareness is thick

Recalling difference and sameness in returning

bones/joints simplicity in the score

Returning is about finding difference / refinement of returning through difference

M playing with acknowledgement of score content that is being verbalised

The verbalisation of the score enables a participation from audience-witnesses?

Cocoon Score

Cocoon Score 1.3

(Leicester, Sept 22)

returning inwards
embryonic

density
tissue of the lungs:
bloodful
 
deepening the outbreath

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enveloping 
incremental pouring
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thickness of time
volume

sustained - 
bound 
depth

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suspended
webbed 

the spiral tissue of
the heart 

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tucking
woven into space 

being held
comforting 
compression
 
cocoon

Collected harvestings on cocoon score

(Leicester, Sept 22)

[audience slowed down with me – radically sustaining the dropping down — really going down and down and down even if movement trajectory was up – less embryonic this time but more deepening the presence]

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Attention to minutae, a zooming in within a contained space
The images of suspension, being suspended and holding threads of suspension
Spanning outward from a turning inward
Slowly spinning

Coming into the edges of space, becoming one with the membrane
Material gut condensed thick

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Spatial behaviour of this score is about enclosing/condensing/thickening space

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Quality of searching in the material
Curious about eyes/mouth

Searching for liquidity and sense of pouring = stillness and suspension

How does this score differ from grounding?  What is the threshold between grounding and cocoon?

Bull Score

Bull Score 1.2

(Leicester, Sept 22)

left psoas hook 
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crown of head in connection with tail
protruding

pressing against density
tensioning the space

prowling

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standing ground 
warrioress

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commanding
confronting
taking
space

full presence

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cauldron of
pelvis
gut
earth
 
a sense of central emanation

spilling and filling
 tendrils of gut 
reaching into space

expanding and recoiling
 
agitating space
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sharp elbows
Marionette

Collected harvestings on Bull score

(Leicester, Sept 22)

[intentional shift of the head / maybe also intentional shift of tail]

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Body architecture
Pushing out
Protruding

Letting go of image, staying with quality

Could embodiment be more qualitative
Felt disembodied

Noting that there are x3 timings within score

Defiance of material – to walk across lines

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Spatial behaviour is intersecting space

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Bull much easier to access – legs/head-tail as markers – there is a clarity in anatomical imagery which supports it

Felt the presence/imprint of the other two scores in the material

More animal than human

Anchoring of pelvis in relation to spine

Soft spine/bony spine as useful resources

More active breath in material

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