Movement Idea .3

Movement Idea .3, for your consumption...
I say that this is for your consumption because I would like the participant to take a new position or perspective of movement (dance) as a language of expression. My purpose is not aesthetics or style, but instead a communication.
To participate, you are invited to read the movement. Reading the movement means that you will watch, listen, and reflect. Second is the translation of the movement idea. As you reflect, watch and listen again and again and again, you will then take the idea and speak it yourself using your own body and movement 'technique' (I use the word technique here in the sense that all bodies have an acquired and learned way of moving). Thirdly, and this is the most exciting and rewarding part, you will then video yourself translating the movement and then share with all of us **.

**I realize that readers can not embed video to this blog as comments but you can post a link to your video in the comments section. If you do take the 3rd, exciting step, please leave some words along with it in the comments section, so that we can know your perspective or state of being :)

This is Not Your Regular Rehearsal

In the common dance world there is a usual set up of events that lead to a performance:  

1.  A choreographer premeditates movement or an idea for a rehearsal with dancers
2. Dancers and choreographer show up to regularly scheduled rehearsals where the choreographer shows or facilitates movement to be learned by the dancers
3. The dancers take on the role of emulators of movement and feeling, basically they do what the choreography tells them to do
4. The choreographed dance is performed by the dancers in a performance space where the outcome is clearly defined and foreknown

 As a choreographer and performer I have always valued the ability to make choices in performance, and as I have matured in age as well as in my art form, I increasingly am investigating choice making, sensing, being, and active sharing of responsibility in performance.  
Here is the third installment of the movement accumulation for this summer project.  Two dancers are watching and embodying the movement contained in the videos over a set period of time.  The two dancers are tasked with using their own bodily knowledge (they must stay truthful to their own thought-body) to translate the movement.
P.S. Anyone is welcome to try this at home.  Can you take this simple, pedestrian movement and allow your body to speak it?