Thoughts from residency-week 2

To come into the room with notions of who you are through movement. People bring their signature, mostly it is pre considered, pre rehearsed, cerebal and fascinatingly so. I try and bring it back to the body. What is happening here, then,  what else is happening here? I use the tools of the camera ignited by my own curiosity.  

I focus in on a particular part of the body that I feel gives me some information that the rest of the body doesn't. 'A tell.' Or maybe it is simply the part of the body that interests me the most. The whole body is too overwhelming, there is so much information, like having all the pages of a book laid in front of you. I am picking the pages.

Artist in Residence-Movement Signatures

I have a 2 week residency supported through Dance House and Workroom-Tramway from 02.11 to 13.11. Throughout I am filming a small number of individual movement signatures. These are movements that people perceive to be unique to them. If I asked you present one move which summed you up what would it be?
People from a number of different backgrounds are coming to spend time with me in the studio on a 1:1 basis. In turn, I will devise film responses to each movement by filming it in a way that is pertinent to that movement.
The aim is to develop the work for a multi-screen presentation in 2010.

I have a sharing of work from the 1st week of the residency at UK Theatre School, Glasgow on Friday 6th Nov 4.30-5.30. All are welcome.