hand and deflating.

first of all, after i made the first video my internet stopped working until THIS VERY EVENING! so.

if only it were possible to present such minute somewhat private movements better. or rather, present these little moments in the way that you yourself experience them - small and delicate. have to say though, the video captured how i first saw it quite well.

here's a little shout out to freaks and geeks.

6.23.09_hand from Johanna Morris on Vimeo.

this one is just an exercise, inflating and deflating like balloons in the macy's day parade. i feel like the execution was a little undercooked but just wanted to get something out tonight. crumple crumple FOOM!

6.30.09_balloons from Johanna Morris on Vimeo.

a little diddy.

just another subway foot pattern. again, by that i really just mean that the placement of my feet on the floor line up "with the tiles" - ie perpendicular, parallel, diagonal, and divide space in even increments.

if you got my email maybe (or not, doesn't matter) you could possibly make a subway foot pattern and i'll gladly post it!

6.22.09 from Johanna Morris on Vimeo.

feet!!!!!

two projects in my head: zombie dance and feet. am trying to focus on those for the next few blogs posts, anyhow.

why it is always the subway platform, i don't know, but here's another diddy that came to me whilst waiting for the train... actually, i do this a lot, sometimes unconsciously. it's like a game. keeping feet very precise and only allowing the them stay within the confines of the tiles (right angles, parallel, diagonals, splitting tiles in halves and quarters). no formula, just neurosis. so i tried to recreate it (or apply the "rules") in the studio.

video one: little feet (the basic foot pattern that i came up with)

video two: long feet (basic foot pattern and then repeating, mixing, changing direction, etc)
only if you want to see it: click here
but it would be fun to do it in a little space crowded by people.

video three: big feet (i left the little square i was working in and put my docs on).
Moving big was much more fun, actually!!!

video four: arms (using a --gulp-- choreographic device: create arms separately and put together).
I don't have the guts to show the video of the arms and legs together... let me work on it more first.

Zombies and ballerinas. Not kidding.

Last night... zombie night. Is this what happens in my new apartment? Movement-wise. Fear not - there were no zombies in apartment. And... welcome to my new place!

For the first clip, I did this while I was standing on an outdoor subway platform on a windy day trying to lean into the wind. Just imagine a forest of people doing this while a single body moves through them, haphazardly (of course), perhaps knocking over bodies, moving like the second video. Since I'm an indecisive person, I was just going with that instinct (or non-instinct, as it were). So the questioning of where to move my body is built into the movement. Something that occurred to me - you can "show" the audience that you're thinking by speaking, easily! "Hey you in the front row with the argyle socks!" So how can you show that you're actively thinking by moving?

Just goes with my general line of thinking lately (thanks, Sam) - how can I be more "present" in performance? To create something that is not only pertinent to "the times" but to the very moment where I inhale part of the air that you just breathed out.

Below: 1. Zombie in the wind/could be zombie forest. 2. Zombie in my kitchen/zombie navigating zombie forest. 3. Watch my newest solo! I think it's the costume's farewell performance... Gorey Prelude. Makes me want to create a group of "preludes" with no, um, entree?

1. Zombie in the wind.

2. Zombie in my kitchen! aaa! I mean, indecisive zombie...

3. Gorey Prelude: