Patterns of Motion
The attention paid to distilling -- from immersion in raw source experiences -- those innate (organic to whatever source accessed) patterns of motion and sounds that, when extracted, could be consciously repeated towards increasing movement precision, purity of tone with various degrees of internal impact. Note the difference between the repetition that dulls experience and the repetition that sharpens experience.
Devices
The term "device" refers to any action or adjustment, discovered or invented, that effectively achieves a desired result, i.e., find, or create, a way to raise consciousness or to wake up more. Devices can be outgrown or neutralized over time and with over-use, inciting the need to find or create new ones.
The Movement Stretch
A device for expanding range of motion by stretching the muscles while remaining in constant movement across the floor. The point is to reach muscles often missed in a stationary stretching process. To expand range of motion, slow down and deepen moment-to-moment awareness while moving across the floor.
The Rises
Lying down on the floor and rising to a vertical stance using minimal tension and resistance. The point of this device is to become aware of the habitual tendency to force or push a movement. With continuing practice, the rises can support an intuition for following shifts of weight -- pathways of least resistance -- as a propellent for achieving physical verticality from a horizontal position. As a warm-up process, the rises cultivates more receptivity to energy sources accessed and embodied later in each session.
The Conversion from Being to Service
In regards to subjective immersion in specific energy sources, the shift from identification into service marked significant conversion point. When immersed and encompassed in full identification with any given source, one becomes one with the energy. When successful, this identification leads to a state of emotional surrender, a kind of rapture within that source. This merging with source, as messy and inarticulate as it can be, is significant insofar as it temporarily annihilates the self-conscious watcher. Experience is all.
Out of this immersion phase, we can discover a shift to serving the source rather than becoming it. This sets into motion a kind of self-detachment, creating more space to express oneself, interact and participate at a higher level of play. Though the results of this conversion differ for each participant, overall it can increase mobilization and purity of expression in the quality and tone of movement and also with sound.
Jogging Forms
Various jogging forms are utilized as mediums through which to find or create specific devices, like a transition jog to "break trance" or a "heat jog" to raise body energy or "maintenance jog" to sustain the heat and presence previously accumulated. Some of the other jogging forms include"the No-Form jog", "the vertical jog" and "the non-directional and directional jogs".
ADDITIONAL PARATHEATRE TECHNIQUES
from the Spring 2004 Song As Vehicle lab
-- ANTERO ALLI, director
PREVIOUS LAB REPORTS
(1999-present)