SWW9 springs, at its most fundamental, from a fascination with simplicity, and how simplicity can open to the profound. I drew Mitzvah Technique inspired qualities of groundedness, flow, ease, and expansion into the movement to affect the performance of walking, balancing, varying pace and changing directions. I am inviting the viewer to sense and feel these subtleties with me. Any meanings are secondary while the quality is the primary subject.
These short videos show excerpts of studio trials with walking vocabulary and the Barret & Orning score, GFP-fusion. To my eye they show a progression in the way the walking vocabulary evolved.
In studio trial 1 the walking is loaded with an emotional tone, while in studio trial 2 walking becomes more abstract and the choices more contrasted: here for example, from low, slow, crossing steps, to straight forward quick steps.
Studio trial 3 shows the ‘low-slow-crossing’ again but in relationship to an arrival, a place, an event – in this case an extended rise downstage centre. Finally studio trial 4 shows a section of the final choreography in which the walking and the events find a kind of balance and symbiosis: that is the walk leads an event/change, and the change/event resolves into walking.