This weekend was the second of a two part CAP (Creative Articulation Process) workshop in Siobhan Davis Studio, London, on 3-4 February 2024.
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CAP Weekend Workshop 1: Ground Form
This weekend was the first of a two part CAP (Creative Articulation Process) workshop in Siobhan Davis Studio, London, on 20-21 January 2024.
Read MoreMaeve’s reflections after filming at White Park Bay
These reflection were written by Maeve as soon as I dropped her back home, around an hour after filming.
Read MoreSecond Practice: Sensory experiments in/with nature
Filming in White Park Bay, Northern Ireland. Boxing Day, 26 December 2023
Read MorePlanning my second practice
Maeve is very engaged and enthusiastic to collaborate together again. We both feel very at ease to work and collaborate on some creative experiments. I would like our collaboration to be much more intimate during filming, not as two separate art forms, but as a single ‘entangled’ ‘enkinaesthetic’ practice.
Read MoreReflexivity/Bracketing
My bias/perspective: My own creative experiences, values and aspirations are the primary tools to make sense of my findings. The research is by nature subjective, as are peak and flow experiences. I think this is the right approach to fully engage and understand the phenomena and present the findings.
Read MoreHelen and Maeve’s reflections on watching ‘Becoming’
I asked dance artists Helen and Maeve who performed in Becoming, to watch the film and let me know how they felt.
Read MoreControlled Screenings of Becoming
In May and June 2023, I held 5 controlled screenings of Becoming in Belfast to 54 viewers. The responses were extraordinary!
Read MoreDesigning viewer evaluation forms
I wanted the evaluation experience for viewers to reflect the experience of the film, rather than be very reductionist and clinical.
Read MoreDrawing and animated lines
I have been very struck by Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet’s theory of the ‘third line’ (Dialogues ll, 1977) and their reference to Heinrich von Kelist’s ‘the soul of the dancer’ in his On the Marionette Theatre (1810) essay.
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