Rewind… 2nd Meeting with Iris.
Our next meeting was primarily talking. And I needed it! I found that everything we discussed led to further questions.
How can you tell that something is dance? Does a dance need to have music? Do animals dance? What about inanimate objects?
This led us to touch on the idea of framing; that through the presentation or delivery almost anything (I think perhaps it has to involve movement) could be seen as dance.
I was, because of my subject matter perhaps, really intreagued by the idea that there is a scale of movement, from the everyday, through to dance, and that there must be a point on this scale where one becomes the other… At what point does movement become dance?
What I found quite frustrating was that I didn’t have the vocabulary for this art form. I was aiming to choreograph a performance and yet I wasn’t even well enough equipped to be able to express the, ‘aesthetic of movement’* I was hoping to achieve. *(this probably has a dance term, but I don’t know it) I could see from the dance clips Iris and I watched together that, within dance, there are many different styles, but I was finding it wildly difficult to even explain the differences between those I did and didn’t like. We ended up having to use terms like ‘dance-y dance’ and ‘visually engaging movement’. Thankfully, Iris is very patient.
