The stillness I am drawn to is brimming over, overflowing with meaning and emptiness and richness and simplicity and complexity; imbued with meanings. It is demanding and demanding of us - as maker-spectators; giving us space-time. An opportunity to be filled by us, different parts and memories of us and ours and that too can be uncomfortable. Not silent, now not quiet, both and…….. I see and feel a great amount of activity being with and within stillness.
I am interested in how this still-ing links to opening up access to different ways of knowing. Can it become another way of exploring and negotiating the necessary inter-relationship in-between both dance-based practice and self and maker and audience-spectator? A time-space that, in most live performance, is shared. Stillness seems to become a vehicle for a kind of meditation, an in-between moment where we as makers-spectators are able to take stock.
I am developing a more self reflexive practice: a kind of dialectical process, which allows experience to inform thinking and thinking to inform experience.
My daily yoga based physical practice ultimately concerns itself with finding space-time to be still in the present (I can liken it to chaos theory always going deeper and deeper into each moment, ever present and an ever ongoing journey). The practice itself opens up different ways of knowing (feeling).
How to be still.
How can this body ever be still?
How can this body be?
Still the mind.
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