Chip and I premiered "The Annunciation" at ADF ten days ago. After the performance I left Durham and drove to Blacksburg to spend time with Ann (Kilkelly thesis advisor) and Carol; and to reconnect with Normando.
To be in the mountains to reflect.
Now I'm at Hollins embarking on the written part of the thesis.
The writing I embark on for these next two weeks will be a reflection on the document of the research. (the dance)
The exploratory part of the research process, the artistic process with its objective to make something: the document of the research - in this case that document being the performance: the performance is the Thesis, the document of my research.
So this is different. This is the reflection on that!
Here's the tricky part, to remember/recall what was that process of that exploration? What were the processes of research? My embodied research process is always very particular.
It involves reading, yes.
It involves seeking out information in dialogue with other people, yes.
It involves thinking through that information, yes.
It involves responding to that information and testing it in relationship to other information.
But its the How that is the embodied practice. The material that is gathered is then deciphered into ideas/actions of the Body: gesture, direction, energy, shape, time, interiority/exteriority, liminality, intent, ephemerality...
I sat down to start my writing by writing about the process. And I realized its all here, in this blog. I like that if I keep this as my process section - the reader goes backward through time.
This way the events (epiphanies, activities, questions) proceed their announcement.
Their annunciation.
