Progression;
personnal and artistic development is intrinsic to the creative, person centred, collaborative process which we work by. Shallal survives by the power of attraction, itʼs commitment to the artists it works with, at all levels, and itʼs flexibility. For some people this is the only place they feel comfortable, for others its a step in the right direction.
Written into the way we work with everyone is an ongoing dialogue, this naturally encourages development, networking, skills sharing and support.
blurb to try to explain what we do with, writing takes me hours!! and i still need to come back to change and tweek it...
If you are a facilitator (rather than a teacher) it's natural that you are going to look to aid that person to develop as much as possible...I find it so hard being constantly asked to articulate what we naturally do..i know there is some benefit in airing , identifying verbalising things but if you could speak or write it you wouldn't dance it..there's a fantastic quote about music somewhere, that i am sorry i can't remember but, it describes that in essence, it says something like where words stop music takes over or it says what words can't......
anyway those who know me /have to listen to me will recognise this as one of my struggles. let the art / work speak for itself..unfortunately that doesn't get you the grant money so...
back to the reason for the blog, i had the pleasure of watching, working with a small but wonderful group tonight, and was trying to verbalise/analyse what it was ABSORPTION was part of it..they were at a place where you can make work ( easily) in fact they created an extremely strong simple piece to an Arvo Part piece that Rory had passed on to me last week.
It was exciting, reassuring and refreshing to watch them, the place where the work becomes a privelige as people are safe to move in front of you from depth and autheticity....where you can see them work and challenge themselves and all you have to do is provide space feedback and a bit of support and they do the rest...so i asked them if they had any words to descibe dance and these were what they came up with and they are happy for me to share them with you...so;
"Fabulous"- Paul
"to feel the music, and that goes into own impression and expression"- Skye
"good vibe"- Carly
"Happiness"- Kirstie
Snaps from Holi-day
thanks again to Donna...... more coming soon.....
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