I just wanted to start off by saying how great it is to have concentrated space and time to work. So much starts to come together and flows because of this environment.

Having said that, the work seems to be flying in different directions and I am busy following a number of paths. We started off today by creating a duet score that was partially inspired by a Marina Abromovic performance I saw recently and partially inspired by the story that a young Japanese man told me last night. The score begins by directly quoting the Abromovic performance: two people point their fingers toward each other and look in each others eyes. When I saw the performance I was mesmerized by the tiny gap of space between their pointer fingers and wanted to try expanding and reducing that space with a sort of contact duet. Last night, Taka told me about a sculpture titled 'reconciliation', a copy of which is both in Hiroshima and Coventry. The duet ends with in a similar way to the two hugging figures in the sculpture.

Later we worked on Lucinda and Eleonora absorbing the dynamics from some of the videos and translating them into movement. I then recorded those movements. I'm curious to try out the results of these and start installing both the video of the landscape and of the bodies with the absorbed landscapes, together.

I'll post some video of today once it is downloaded.

I can't get the links to work at all! But you can go to vimeo.com and search for 'meghan summerdancing' and everything should pop up. The one that I mentioned below is titled 'playing with installation ideas'.

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