The 19th Step Development Day 10, Marking out the performance

These two images capture the trio between Sarah on flute and Marina and Rose performing their hexagon tracings and spelling out words from their alphabet.

Scott, Richard, Marcus and Dylan develop the equation duel.
Dorothy exploring ideas for percussion with Scott
Ideas for using the two triangles may be this is the Aleph point and becomes a screen for two projections?

The performers practicing their a voice piece.
Books gradually being covered in 'maths book yellow' begin to inhabit the space. This clip shows Scott and Richard on Percussion and Horn exploring sound ideas for the equation duel developing with Marcus and Dylan.

The 19th Step Development Day Nine, Navigation through Hexagonal library, books, projections

Marcus maps out the hexagonal library described in Borges story the Library of Babel and discusses with Carol, Dylan, Rose and Marina how to navigate through it. This is then fed into the development of their movement in the space.

"The Universe (which others call the library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps an infinite, number of hexagonal galleries ..............one of the free sides gives upon a narrow entrance way, which leads to another gallery, identical to the first and all the others"

Borges, The Library of Babel

Rose and Marina working with the books.

Ideas for projection, a series of quickly changing images onto the books stacked to create a screen, thinking about the Aleph, past, present and future.

The 19th Step Development Day Eight Dancers and Marcus explore shape and pattern of the hexagon and the circle

Carol worked with the dancers Rose, Marina, Dylan and Marcus, drawing shapes with the body. Marina and Rose trace the sides of the Hexagon, and develop shapes creating a hybrid language.
Marcus and Dylan continue to develop their equation moves.

Marina and Dylan develop their dance of circular shapes.

Clips below show Marina as she traces the shape of a hexagon joined by Rose who traces her own hexagon shape. The final clip show Rose and Marina devloping an alphabet which will be accompanied by Sarah on flute.

The 19th Step Development Day Six and Seven, Equations, Sequencing, Patterns and Yellow Paper

Dorothy works with Richard and Scott to make music to accompany Marcus as he creates an equation through dance. Marcus showing the performers his moves which show an equation through his body.

These two pics show Marcus teaching Dylan the body equation moves.

Below are two photos showing the performers practicing their 12 body positions.


The clip below shows ideas developing the opening of the piece.

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 Four, developing each strand

Today we are all working on various parts of the project separately.

Below are some videos beginning to collect material to create an idea of the Aleph?
Just been listening to this programme,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/discoveringmusic/pip/5056m/
you need to listen to it by Sunday 30th as the link will run out. Its about Tango and one of the contributors just said "Borges describes Tango as a heart dancing on four legs" this made me think his short story the Circular Ruins.




Marcus explains irrational numbers.



Here are some pages from Marcus's sketch book a lot of the diagrams show him trying to workout how to navigate through the hexagonal rooms of the Library of Babel.

The 19th Step Development Day Three, Patterns, Shapes and Tango

"Musically, the tango is not important; its only importance is what we give it. This reflection is correct, but perhaps applies to everything."
"The tango can be debated, and we have debates over it, but it still guards, as does all that is truthful a secret"
Jorge Luis Borges, A History of Tango.

Today Marcus our mathmatician had his first ever tango lesson. Using the shape of the circle the dancers and Marcus improvised moves drawing circles on the floor inspired by tango.

Marcus drew the diagram of the dance moves he and Rose had developed. Inside the circle the 6 triangles make a hexagon, the shape of the rooms in Borges story the Library of Babel.

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.

The 19th Step Development Day One Primordial Space Thinking of Borges The Circular Ruins

Mappings of the Primordial space, empty except for the body and the sound of our own pluse building the performance and sound, exploring the books as building materials. Video shows an exercise with the dancers Rose, Marina and Dylan navigating between coordinates 01,10,00,11, controlled by the sounds made by the musicians Richard, Sarah and Scott.

Dancing is Drawing

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