How I Practice Relationship

July 30, 2008
Outside of the studio I assume I am in relationship to the world, but I do not pay attention to how I am being altered by it. Call it self-protective or call it loss.

I have come to realize that dance is how I actually exercise my relationship to the world. As I perform in the studio or on stage, I try, like a dog, to notice and balance concurrent perceptual experiences:
a) my relationship to the feedback from my whole body at once;
b) my relationship to the entire space in which I am dancing;
c) my relationship to each moment as it unfolds;
d) my relationship to the other people with whom I am dancing; and,
e) my relationship to the audience.

Found Music, premiere, Marfa, TX

July 19, 2008 premiere Found Music, at Goode Crowley Theater, Marfa, TX
dancers: Cydney Wilkes and Mike Barber