performance / creation
[Image description: Elizabeth holds a notebook while demonstrating a step with her knees bent and her left arm reaching back. She is wearing black and has short brown hair and pale skin. Behind her stand Nicole and Aimee, wearing dark clothes on a dark floor in front of large windows. Photo of Nicole Charlton-Goodbrand, Aimee Rushton and Elizabeth Emond-Stevenson courtesy of Dancers’ Studio West]
waiting exploration
I explored the role of waiting within dance/creation as a choreographer at Dancers’ Studio West’s Creative Lab 2018. I entered into the Lab hoping to experience or see waiting experienced as movement, waiting as the main act, waiting as a guiding feature or figure, perhaps. Instead of predetermining how to transition from one section or movement to the next, I experimented with seeing where the waiting could take the movement and the work. I wanted to give waiting actual space, thought and time within this process and actively work with it as an element of the process, similar to the way I might choose to work with music or text. I was not looking for a specific outcome to my questions. I was fueled by the possibilities that shifting my ways of viewing “waiting” might have on my process and the work that comes of it.
*What is the role of waiting within a dance work?
*What forms does/can it take on?
*What happens when we acknowledge the waiting as more than a pause, transition, etc
*How is the work and its progress/deroulement affected?
Choreography & Direction: Elizabeth Emond-Stevenson
Collaboration & Performance: Nicole Charlton Goodbrand & Aimee Rushton
Facilitation: Sasha Ivanochko & Justine Chambers
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J’ai exploré le rôle d’attente en danse/création comme chorégraphe à Dancers’ Studio West’s Creative Lab 2018. J'ai commencé le Lab en espérant de vivre ou sentir l’attente vécue comme mouvement, l’attente comme attraction principale, l’attente comme caractéristique principale. Au lieu de prédéterminer comment transitionner d’une section à l’autre, j’ai experimenter avec le trajectoire de l’attente-même dans le travail. Je voulais donner l’espace, le temps et la pensée nécessaires à l’attente et de travailler avec l’attente activement comme élément du processus. Je ne cherchais pas pour des résultats spécifiques. J’étais inspirée par les possibilités offertes en changeant mes expectations de l’attente.
*Que c’est le rôle d’attente en danse?
*Quelles sont ses formes?
*Qu’est qui arrive quand on reconnaît l’attente comme plus qu’une pause, une transition, etc?
*Comment sont le travail et son déroulement affectés?
Chorégraphie & Direction: Elizabeth Emond-Stevenson
Collaboration & Interprétation: Nicole Charlton Goodbrand & Aimee Rushton
Facilitation: Sasha Ivanochko & Justine Chambers