Taryn Javier - Project Creation & Development | Production | Artistic Direction & Choreography
describe your favourite moment from today’s rehearsal….and why you connected to it.
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Definitely depends on the day – today my favourite moment was sitting on the mountain side at Lake Louise when the sun finally peaked out from behind the clouds over the view of the mountains. Simply beautiful.
I wouldn’t claim I have a consistent favourite moment , as each new day is never the same from the next; and highly dependable on where in the world you are, what you are doing, or what you are feeling – if I’m stressed its something relaxing, if I’m tired; it’s probably my pillow. Ever changing as we are.
Hi Chelsea!
Thanks for your response! I like the idea that you, watching the sun on a mountain, was somehow a part of our rehearsal too and that maybe it was also a rehearsal for you, of sorts. For what? A rehearsal is a preparation for something. Just wondering what that time you had, watching the sun on a mountain, was preparing you for?
My favourite part of the improve was…
crying with pam – because i felt like i made a great connection with her after.
eating out jenn – In ressponse to what she told me the only thing i could do is eat… and the closest thing to eat was her vaginal loins! lol
and having passionate love with the floor – Which might have come from my sexualy fustrated mind!
What a day!
Great rehearsal :]
it was very beautiful to see those moments of where you guys were connecting to each other. do you sit and allow the moment to come to you? do you happen to find it in front of you? or did you seek it out….? i think these are ALSO important questions to ask….
My favorite moment from the third rehearsal… The moment belly splayed over the chair, belly-down, legs open and waiting for something. Waiting and thinking, and Pam hesitantly walking in between my legs, maybe unaware of the situation she was walking into, and having a tension build. Me looking back at her over my shoulder, waiting for her to do anything she would, and a tension so thick you could juice it and sell it to discomfort seekers. What I found amazing about it… That it was the situation that wholly gave rise to the tension. Her “narrative” colliding with mine, and unfolding into something unexpected and confrontational from the inside. Still wondering what might have happened.
agreed. that moment was intense….the anticipation of where it could go…
that moment with the question inside it…….
I know I was not really apart of your rehearsal, and originally I kind of skipped that word in the post – I guess I really just wanted to respond to the idea of my favorite part my day and I was going off that idea! In rehearsal, depending at where you are at with yourself, what’s going on around you, your levels of stress, ease or current personal lessons – in one particular rehearsal something may stand out to you or mean something , but if you had an identical rehearsal when all of your external factors where different something else would be a highlight; as everday is different from the next.
If anything it was preparing my spirit to be calm, I was rehearsing, if you will, embracing a moment, and absolutely positively not anything else. Truly just with myself, as myself on that mountain top. What I was going through, what I had to prepare for either work, love or life just didn’t matter at that moment, because I was above everything else – away from it all with just that moment to realize no matter what, their is beauty amongst all the business and chaos in life. I felt like I was taking in the only fresh moment and fresh breathe of air I had, had in a very long time. Best way to describe it is simply silence. Something I needed, that break in mind to rejuvenate almost for everything I have coming up and going on. There’s nothing like “rehearsing” a bit of peace
Asides from all of the above, especially the fudge like tension that built between Simon and I at the chair, my favorite moment from our third rehearsal was the true awkward silent cricket moment that happened when I gave Jenn an unaffectionate hesistant peck on the cheak. I was a true surprise.
It felt nice to just accept and living in how not quite right it was then giving a little embarrassed giggle and then moving on to interact with Simon again. Wonderful how being so present in the moment just opens a world of awareness of the tensions and connections between yourself and those surrounding you.
For those who are not familiar with dance, an improvisation it is sort of like an impromptu performance where everyone has to work together to create the content on the spot. As a dancer, you have to juggle being fully present in your own personal actions as well as being present in your interactions with everyone else. If everyone does their own thing without being aware of the other dancers the improv will lack cohesion, be hard to follow and we miss out on moments that seem to “make sense” when everyone listens to eachother.
These moments of understanding, when we all found our individual ways to one comunal statement were my favorite parts of rehearsal #3.
Also, when I was wrapped up in the tissue and Pam was leading me I felt connected to her as well as to my own internal dialogue. Perhaps it was because I couldn’t see anything, I had to completely trust that she wouldn’t crash me into something.
Thanks Pam!
My favourite is just the fact that we were allowed to get lost, play, be spontaneous, and let go of inhibitions during that whole improv. There were so many beautiful moments when I felt my body and voice responded without knowing myself where I was going and why but it felt real in that moment. For example, when I started to whisper and then yell ” its the same story over and over” and when I began to dictate from Simon’s book over Ralph’s body.