The 19th Step Development Day Five, Workingsout Sounds and Sequences.

Dorothy worked with the musicians, dancers and Marcus to create soundscape from controlling their breath, starting with their pulse, using books as instruments and repeating the beginning of certain words in order.

Rose workingout her 12 moves and Amy discusses with Marina and Scott the 12 positions Carol has asked the performers to develop.

This video show clips from the development of a duet by Richard on Horn and solo by Dylan

" He wanted to dream a man; he wanted to dream him in minute entirety and impose him on reality." Borges, The Circular Ruins

This clip shows Marina and Dylan practicing moves where they draw circles with their bodies in the shape of a hexagon, this will happen while Marcus and Rose draw a diagram of the shapes on the blackboard.

The 19th Step Development Day Two, Building Vocabulary, Notations and Blackboards

Musicians, Dancers and Marcus, Dorothy and Carol discuss ideas about notation building the space, and exploring the space and sounds of the blackboards.

Discussing notation and sounds made by drawing on blackboard which Dave had attached a contact mic amplifying the sounds of the chalk drawing. The musicians created different forms of notation which the dancers used as a starting point to develop their own notation for movement.

More ideas of notation using text, music and geometry using blackboards and performers as part of the architechture.
Creating geometric spaces with the boards the performers formed a Hexagon.


Marcus drew an equation showing the 7 performers of the 19th step. S1= Sarah, Flute, R1 = Richard, Horn, S2 = Scott, Percussion, R2= Rose, Dancer, D= Dylan Dancer, M1 = Marina, Dancer, M2 = Marcus, Mathematician.

Infinity Dance of Carols made me think of Whirling Dervish

Remembered seeing Whirling Dervish in Cairo apparently Dervish means Doorway

As explained by Sufis:

At the beginning of the Sema, by holding his arms crosswise, the semazen appears to represent the number one, thus testifying to God's unity. While whirling, his arms are open: his right arm is directed to the sky, ready to receive God's beneficence; his left hand, upon which his eyes are fastened, is turned toward the earth.

Quoting From Marcus
"In the essays in my addition of Labyrinths there is an essay by Borges dedicated to The Fearful Sphere of Pascal. It traces back how the sphere has been an important symbol for many philosophers. Parmenides: The divine being is like the mass of a well-rounded sphere whose force is constant from the centre in any direction. The music of the spheres. Kepler's model of the universe as interconnected spheres."