snodance with me

reworked footage of the union square dansperiments


union square, death, silver and gold, snow storm

The Union Square (Dance) Experiments

We include in our pattern a man sitting on a railing.
We sunbathe upside down, but only upside down in relation to the scores of people who are in the same position right-side up.
We lean against a pole, and then another, and then another.
We stand still—not a particularly noteworthy activity—unless it’s raining.
We jostle to get by each other even though we’re in the most expansive part of the Square.
We glance side to side.
We sit next to people we don’t know.
We turn look back and forth, watching the watchers, taking them in, connecting to them gesturally, but also dancing.
We make circles around a certain center, each larger than the last until we gradually eat up all of the space of the square, including bodies one at a time.
We turn trashcans into islands, and jump between them.
We look down drains, we look at each other, we look at the rest of the people in the park.
When they look at us, we say hi, wave, or wink, destabilizing the distinction between performing and “just being” in the park.
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We become them, we become us, we become we-and-them.





VISIT the Union Square (Dance) Experiments at this link.
http://dansperiments.blogspot.com/
Do you see yourself?

Come dance with us.

deep time tag in union square

Mr. Graydon Wetzler, video mastermind added "directional processing (indexing the orientation of discreet objects based on trajectory)" to some Union Square footage. Check out the bodily layers and corporal traces. Yessss.


deep time tag in union square from Graydon Wetzler on Vimeo.

Union Square April Pole Dance

Space graphing.



Happy Spring!!

Union Square Dansperiments

Here are the most recent fruits of our collective labor...or at least our collective play.

From José Gil's Paradoxical Body:

"Let us remember that the space of the body does not come about except by the projection-secretion of interior space on exterior space"

"In truth, there is no fixed and autonomous space o the body. The space of the body varies according to the velocities of its unfolding, in such a way that it is dependent upon the time the movement takes in opening the space of the body. This time depends on the texture--more or less dense, more or less viscous--of the space of the body, which is born from the energy involved."

The body is not a "phenomenon", not a "visible and concrete perception moving in the objective Cartesian space" but "simultaneously visible and virtual, a cluster of forces, a transformer of space and time [...] a body inhabited by--ad inhabiting--other bodies and other minds, a body existing at the same time at the opening toward the world provided by language and sensorial contact, and in the seclusion of its singularity and non-inscription."

Union Square is already choreographed: in the types of activities permissible in different spaces, in the orchestration of viewership - places for watching, places for acting, security guards and cameras making sure people don't act or watch out of place. Controlled mayhem, inscribed patterns, how might we confuse the boundaries between dancing and being? How might we entwine our body spaces with the spaces of others? In fact we can't avoid doing this.

Music is for fun and to keep ourselves from taking things too seriously :)

Headless Dancing in Confined Spaces