Quadrat (WIP)

Work-in-progress: durational attentional environmental dance practice.

Throughout 2022, I spend time once a week in a 2 x 2m location in bushland at my home in the Adelaide Hills, engaging in mindful observation of the site. I monitor how it grows and changes over time, taking notes, sketches, memories, images, poems, etc. about …

• sensation - things observed around me - i.e. sight, sound, smell, taste
• somatic experience - things felt in me - i.e. physical, emotional response
• study - things learned - taking notes and researching things not known before

Each visit is different; changes in the weather, mood and energy levels, choices about the scale of the observations (close-up/long-distance), variations in directional facing, position, level, eyes open/closed …

If I am travelling I make a 'tourist' observation from a temporary sit-spot.

I use the notes and memories to create short dance/movement responses to each observation, gradually building solo movement material which grows and changes over the course of the year.

✐ WRITING

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