MAKING our way
Context: Since around 2009, I’ve been working with and through a practice I bluntly call nonstopping. Nonstopping works with different tools and strategies for the practice of presence and performance within conditions of the continuous present. I keep on with nonstopping as a methodology for practice, performance, and making because it understands the dance experiment as being on the way and something that is constantly escaping image and representation. It persists in the attempt to amplify the mobilizing and mutable force of mind and body in the midst of undeniable, uncontrollable change and precarity. I keep at it because it’s an active resistance to other forces (internal and external) that conspire against expression of thought, speech and body.
Practicals: I’ll share different tools and strategies for nonstopping and for sustaining attention to yourself, to others, and to what is around you, mainly through the modes of moving and speaking. Observing how the complexities of our desires, thoughts, sensations, perceptions are formed and articulated in relation to ongoing shifting conditions and propositions in the continuous present. We’ll ask basic questions like: where am I, where am I going, in relation to whom and what, when and how? We’ll work together in relation, alone together, or just alone, sometimes in pairs, or small groups. We’ll watch, write, discuss, and question. We’ll bring our questions, concerns, and doubts into conscious action and practice. We’ll work with provisional micro-scores to frame and hold attention to our practices. In addition to all that, we’ll use methods of nonstopping as a foundation for making, primarily focusing of the how of how you make decisions and how you get to where you get to in the grappling process of creating.
What to expect:
Folks can expect to move and speak a lot as a mode of creative practice, while sometimes not knowing why or what is being produced from it. A willingness to not know as a generative tool is useful in this work. We’ll discuss and write. The practice is built on directives, tasks, tools and strategies for moving and speaking but the ways in which that manifests is self-determined, self-motivated, and self-observed. Please bring something to write with and on. We’ll be doing a lot of writing as a tool for tracking your decision-making.
