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Dear Sue, all
Many thanks, yes, definitely grappling (though, this time, I didn't put
"slippery" in the title!) - caught up in extremis (imminent paper) working
on Kantor's "found" gestures (in "found spaces" executed by "found" or
"hired" actors in "poor room of the imagination" inhabited by objects of
the lowest rank of reality...), and there's something about corporeal -
temporal and spatial - moorings I'm trying to get at, so your insights will
be very useful. Carrie Noland's and Sally Ann Ness's Migrations of Gesture
also keep springing to the fore, so many references in the crowded house of
my academic mind!
Apologies for "self" rant. Yes, Johannes, the "again" from "Play it again,
Sam" is a famously erroneous reference re Casablanca, though one might
also/ alternatively be referencing Milton Babbitt's viola piece. And while
we're talking about the price of fish, as Kantor said, "I Shall Never
Return" - title of his penultimate stage work - but then of course he did.
As a recording. Which he would have been anyway. Except that he'd have been
there physically, too. Along with his designated "self-portrait" double.
Ghosted to death and back to life and so it goes on.
all best, I think I'll go jump in the ocean...
sj
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Sue Hawksley <s...@articulateanimal.org.uk>
wrote:
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> Dear Sally Jane
>
> On 23 Jul 2014, at 18:35, sally jane norman <
> normansallyj...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'd love to hear more on your take on ghosts and haunting and
> resonance, Sue, as I'm also grappling with this stuff - something I've
> previously tried to articulate as "registers of presence"...
>
> I like your use of 'grappling': ghosts, haunting etc. are tricky words
> because they could seem to imply mystification of something that I'm trying
> to anchor in the bodily experience. Grappling is very active.
> You might be interested in this short article I wrote a couple of years
> ago about the making of a dancefim which explores kinaesthetic and kinetic
> processes of 'inhabiting' (and being inhabited by) the mnemonic traces of
> places. The article focuses mainly on the physical practices that we used
> to facilitate exploration of imaginatively created virtual spaces: <
> http://theperipateticstudio.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/sue-hawksley-traces-of-places/
> >
>
> Also, in my previous post I referred to Elizabeth Dempster - I meant
> Elizabeth Behnke. Apologies to both Elizabeths.
> Behnke's piece, which you might find of interest is: “Ghost Gestures:
> Phenomenological Investigations of Bodily Micromovements and Their
> Intercorporeal Implications, ” Human Studies 20, (1997), pp.181–201.
>
> all the best, Sue
>
>
>
> SUE HAWKSLEY
> independent dance artist
> s...@articulateanimal.org.uk
> http://www.articulateanimal.org.uk
>
>
>
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