week of 14th March

Movement with Alex absent. Topics covered- walking on beach backwards, open spine, release of hips, dropping sitbones to lengthen spine. Rolling on the floor, leading with the different parts of the body and feeling the weightshift. BONES .
Working with surface and weightshift meeting on the floor and wall. Touched on the middle space, crawling- to be continued. deep meditation into naval radiation and breath connection to the limbs. More and more we are becoming aware of COUNTERPOINTS - support.

Monday 26 Jan

Marias internal journey: Moving in my own space, becoming aware of the walls, the meeting of others. Warm up was individual, I used Chi Qung and got a figure of eight going in the ball space between my hands and then flowing through the body. Soon the floor called and the sensation of swimming was very strong, pushing off from the walls and from Maeve. Felt Alex very focused on her journey inward. Using the camera on the phone as an extension to the arm, no shift outward or very little, let the physical movement dictate when to photo, no detachment, camera part of the performance. relaxed into it. Felt soft but strong and very clear. the hour flew by. we all naturally came to a completion together.

19 January 2010

discussed and moved through the questions. physical states of receiving and giving in a cultural context. out the door! how to receive and give from one perspective without the other. no knee caps

site meetings

We are three artists working in a variety of media,: drawing, film, internet, sound, installation and dance. Through these media we wish to choreograph and perfom a response to the site as it offers a place of arrival, a meeting place for an embodied process that stems out of a shared daily movement practice. As visitors to a site, we will receive and give, trusting that the space will provide a point of resistance and potential for transformation through creativity as we explore presence with meeting points in contemporary culture.

The material we wish to participate with is our continued collaboration and daily movement practice.

Since March 09 Boettcher and Kerin have been exploring sites of meeting through movement and choreography. Through inner listening and movement, unconscious meetings are manifested into presence arriving at points of resistance and transending. In May 09 they performed a commissioned live site specific work at the Iniscealtra Arts Festival, Mountshannon, Co. Clare. (See image of Freeze attached). Since October 09 Maeve Collins joined the daily movement practice of morning studio sessions where the 3 artists explore Mind Body Centering, meditation, yoga, authentic movement, contact improvisation, recording and tracking, writing and shared discourse in their search for presence as they develop their own individual choreographic processes..

In their ongoing research they are exploring new meeting points of engagement such as the internet, text messaging, skype, and how public/social space has changed. These meetings offer potential for new work to emerge and meet audience in liminal spaces.

Their diverse backgrounds from contemporay dance, fine art, perfomance, film making and design inform their multi-disciplinary collaborative process. Currently they are exploring presence in contemporary culture by listening inside and outside. They welcome the opportunity to do this through site specific performance.

“The concept of site specific offers a space that we meet or not meet through our chosen points of postioning - spatial, physical, ephemeral, energetic, framing the context in which we move. We approach site specific as a framework for moving through the familiar to a liminal space that releases the unknown into a creative alignment through presence as the audience witnesses/participates. These new points of relation offers new social spaces, new places for meeting, new public art spaces for work to emerge.”