blood
Take me back
as life, energy, violence, guilt, family/intergenerational/heritage/inheritance/lineage, disease, sustenance, salvation, sacrifice, reminder, remains, evidence
Facilitated by Isabella Zou
Performed by: Gavi Welbel, Isabella Perone, Valentina Simon
Music: "Lest We Forget (blood)" by Esperanza Spalding
SUPERPOSITION
Yale Modern Dance Collective Spring Showcase
April 8, 2023
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- In the body
- Three types of carriers
- Nourishers
- Relation of blood to different organs
- Heart
- Muscles
- Liver
- Stomach
- Intestines
- Start by studying these organs, and then study what happens when they're nourished by blood, or when they're waiting for blood
- Your blood moves you
- All your blood is pulling right - racing to the right side of your body, making your body move
- Left
- Forward
- Backward
- Up to your head - ALL your blood is in your head, how does that move you
- Down to your feet - ALL your blood is in your feet, leaving the rest of your body dry, how does that move you
- Down to your fingertips
- You are components of blood
- You are a red blood cell - pick up oxygen, release oxygen
- You are a white blood cell - swallow something, fight something
- You are plasma - thin, yellow-ish, watery liquid
- Collectively - move around the room in arteries / in veins / in capillaries - be the different components of blood with each other
- Ground is skin, you are a slit in it/blood coming out. The floor/direction of gravity is the other side of the room
- Journaling about significant encounters with blood
- Pick one
- Re-enact it (literally, what happened) - find three exact positions that your body was in
- Make a movement phrase using those three positions
- Find someone else and enter each other's encounters
- Bleeding out
- Sharing blood
- Find a point of contact where you're sharing weight; this opens up into sharing blood; now you are one blood system. How does that move you?
- Etc.
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