encore une fois

pretty much a meditation on the same thing... with Hannah playing her melodica.

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who is that.

right.

believe it or not, this did stem from the bug. i won't tell you how...because i'm still working it out. clap if you believe!

i love the shades and the sunlight flapping through.

this is just a snippet of a movement thought for the piece i'm working on.

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bug: hello august.

don't get bored! it's a bug. you can skim this and get the idea. just some smaller ideas that i'd like to expand on. i really will, this time.

i came into the studio and i just couldn't ignore him...

we shared the space together and i wanted him to at least have a posthumous debut. ceremonial, really.

lately, just feeling small movements. could be the weather.

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hiatus.

workshop with tere o'connor, day 1

taking a comp workshop with tere o'connor. he simply asked us to make a little phrase in 7 minutes (no pressure, no strings attached) and then we WROTE about them. bagh. talking. on the paper. but it's a good exercise... thinking about various audience members' perspectives (from religion to mathematics) and picking out little parts of the phrase that could correlate somehow. he calls them anchor points and i know i've ranted to people about this before (or rather, written in proposals... those are like rants, right?) about needing to create access points for everyone.

anywho. the second one was created by scrapping the first one and then creating a new one based on the writing. basically, a new phrase bearing the written ideas in mind but not a literal translation thereof. it's time to kill the dream of ever becoming a liturgical dancer.

to see some of the ideas in my writing, read below the videos after you watch them. also, those are squints and not sneers. i can't see.

pt1

7.6.09_pt1 from Johanna Morris on Vimeo.

pt2 the last bit was added on because i forgot it. also, bear in mind, kitchen space is limited. gonna take out the fridge and the stove soon if my roommate doesn't mind.

7.6.09_pt2 from Johanna Morris on Vimeo.

IDEAS (yeah my ideas seem like bs now looking back but that is to be expected):

3 masks

no sequence or cohesive, singular idea

animals (dog, bird)

scultural moments.

and i'll add this one:

asldkfja;weijra;lgkn dslkfj!!!!!

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.