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Mapping movement sequences | Lines Crossing, (phase two)
2009-05-07

Mapping movement sequences

Week 5, St Edwards NS

We began the session by looking at some images of Gilbert and George and discussing performance art. The work we were doing with the movement sequences could also be called performance art.

I had laid all the sound boxes they had made with Cathal, (that represented train stations) in a roughly scaled version of the overall google map of the train lines, in the hall. As soon as we walked into the hall everyone quickly found their own station and were station master once again. Getting their own maps out of the boxes, which showed their own stretch of line between two stations, they then mapped out the bends and curves in their own line with wool and stuck it down with tape. This line became a floor plan for their own movement sequences to travel along. Some had to make their sequence travel quite a distance and others had to find a way to make their sequence nearly happen on the spot, ( for short sections of line). After a group warm up, everyone worked individually on their sequences and by the end we were able to run them in sequence from the beginning of the lines, (Sligo station) to the end of the three lines,( the journey splits into three simultaneous lines at Colooney). As a movement sequence, it traveled from one place, to end in three places, passing from performer to performer down the three lines, resulting in two solos at the start, then a series of trios and ending in a duet, (as one of the lines was shorter and finished earlier).
Having discovered that this works, we have a lot to explore now next week in terms of the possibilities with the movement content and combining now with the sound tracks that accompany each train line.