Draft tekst on practise

What have you been making? General introduction

I have been working on further developing my embodied artistic practice into new ways of moving image making within my practice. I have been taking the next step in combining of dance/movement and film in my practice. Adding an extra layer and diving deeper into this fusion of dance and film. I want to make the border between the two narrower. Focusing on making and going beyond the performative/ video registration format most of my previous work has been. I have been using dance as a langue and a narrative structure to express or explain something. I want to evolve as artist to someone that really works from within the body. That uses this embodied artistic research to make work that embodies dance / movement / choreografie as a hole and becomes it. In structure, time, space, flow, physicality etc. The question I ask is; how to make film dance? And how do I not only show dance and movement, but let the hole work feel like or embody movement/dance?

How did you do it? (method) Describe your research, what, how and why What To unpack my research question I have been working on a work called Falling, Floating, Being. I wanted to focus on the physical sensation and versatility within one movement. The movement I worked with we call in dutch ‘the candle’. In my work it’s performed without using the support of arms and hands. The question I asked was; How to create a physical landscape with only one movement? And within this landscape show the complexity and contrast of this movement. Creating a physical sensation. How I worked with the viewpoint shape from the viewpoints method, that is used in dance and theater. The shape is ‘the candle’ movement. But how do I capture this movement? I’m fascinated by the complexity of the movement, the opposition of needing strength, control but at the same time being soft, relaxed and letting go, letting it happen. This contrast I found interesting. With a camera on movement I find it interesting to go into the details and have a close up look. Zoom in on parts of the body to capture the physicality. I started filming. I was just exploring the body. Which part touches the ground, what is shaking, where is it tense and where soft. Different angels of the full position. I found the close ups the most interesting. And while editing I really got interested by creating the question from the viewer perspective ‘what am I looking at?’, what is it that is see?.