A closing thats only the beginning

Throughout the past year this blog has been the collection of different creative practices I have engaged in.  As I come to the end of my certificate work I feel that I'm not ending only opening a new door into a new journey.  This dance is a collection of multiple thoughts, phrases and drawings I have had over my year in a journal I kept.  This journal has been a very personal collection of thoughts not a place for notes about course work but a place for thoughts both positive and negative about my life.  My life encompasses and intertwined in school, work and relationships.  I've overcome many challenges within my certificate work, challenges in embracing visual arts.  This blog has been a place for me to post my work, which when I first did a visual art project I was so nervous to do so.  This blog has been a place to express and explore and know while no one really looks at it, it can be found.  Its forever on the internet--which while scary is also so cool.  This dance was composed with inspiration by drawings, words and phrases in my personal journey. Enjoy

The Seven's

Trisha Brown is an iconic modern choreographer.   Her work encompasses multidisciplinary practices and is so beautiful.   Her book "SO THAT THE AUDIENCE DOES NOT KNOW WHETHER I HAVE STOPPED DANCING" served as my inspiration for my creative practice.

The book is a collection of some of her thoughts and inspirations for her dances.  In 1969 she created a work called "Skymap" for this work she used sketches she had drawn to create her floor patterns and movement for the dance.  I was so intrigued by this, I decided to try it myself.  This week I focused on the sketches.  Trisha Brown discusses that she would draw many different sketches before picking just one.  I noticed in her sketches she seemed to follow a pattern of type, but never discussed it.  Some of the sketches only have 5 lines repeated and others only having a circle.  

For my creative practice I did "The Seven's"

I challenged myself to create 7 drawings created of 7 lines.  This is my 4th sketch I am including.  It was such a inspiring practice, I really enjoyed it.  I found myself turning the paper and looking at it different ways.

I am planning on using this sketch to create a dance, much like Trisha Brown has done.

Gratitude Phrase One

I'm so thankful everyday for so many people and so much in my life.  I had an idea to create dance phrases in gratitude.  I have started compiling a list of things, experiences and people that I am grateful for.  With this list over time I plan to create short dance phrases and hopefully string them together into a much larger work!

As an artist dance is my form of expression, being able to show people my gratitude with movement is such a sweet idea in my mind.  Also the idea that to people unknowing the movement may have different context or meaning to them.  This is a project I am not putting any timeline on.

My first dance phrases is actually to myself, I made this phrases to thank my body, my mind and my soul for all that is has done so far.  I'm focusing on working from the inside out, if I'm happy I will radiate happiness and be able to provide happiness as I'm facilitating my art.

Dance is such a dynamic journey for me and I'm really happy with this phrases and can't wait to build on and add onto the idea of gratitude!