yesterday morning

artist walking by

(As we were filming on Waialae Ave. I heard a voice say to us "I'm the artist who did that" --it was a very cool surprise as we were visiting our favorite places.  The photo above is of the kids with Ion,
the creator of this work they are standing in front of). 

Yesterday Jason, Soren, Dahlia and I went to some of our favorite outdoor artwork sites in Manoa, Kaimuki, and Makiki to help me get started on my 661 assignment.  I wanted to approach this assignment with a quote from our class reading in mind.  In the article Dance and Interactivity, Johannes Birringer discusses new environments for dance with an interdisciplinary approach and comments on how these innovated technological changes are broadening how we view, create and think about dance.  Birringer states that:

 Addressing "interaction" as a spatial and architectural concept for performance, therefore, means    shifting the emphasis away from the creation of steps, phrases, "combinations" of points on the body that initiate movement, away from the dancer's internal bodily awareness (widely encouraged in today's practices of yoga, somatics, experiential anatomy, body-mind centering and release techniques) unto her environment, to a not-given space but a constructed, shifting relational architecture that influences her and that she shapes or in turn shapes her. (p. 2)

I really appreciated this quote as a springboard for my project and wanted to have a strong emphasis on the environments we chose and then see how they in turn affected Soren and Dahlia while we were filming. 

do you dream in color?

This is a something I made in my video choreography class last semester.  I wanted to continue a study I had done a while back on the movement of the pelvis.  This work ended up being more about femoral flexion and as I began the editing process I played around with cutting the endings and almost endings of movement (inspired by the work of Mitchel Rose in "Contact").  I also decided, due to constant changes in lighting the day I shot, to play around with the colors on screan and make a study out of that as well.

I worked with two uniquely strong dancers Megan Brennan and Makena Harootian.