Desire Lines and Disorientation
We used a score to guide movement and intention that called upon Rebecca Solnit’s Wanderlust and Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology as starting points. It explored internal rhythms, sensations and pulls; prompted by choreographer Charlie Morrissey's tuning practices. Together we explored the grounds, attending to what you can learn and understand through your body. It also practiced differing negotiations of power and control asking for people to entrust one another; relying solely on someone else as a guide.
After this, we cut divergent paths across the unexplored fields in the grounds; collectively asking questions like: ‘what offers us space? what gives us shape? what creates paths?’....
Kat Hall wrote a text about it for a-n here.
We gather on the ground, and we co-create the ground upon which we gather
We walk together, we stay together, we take a walk along desire lines
In the grounds, in our minds and in full knowledge of our bodies
We orientate following our desires and respect each others, moving with them as a group
We change direction when we feel a pull to
We take time, we stop, we take it in turns; we each take a turn
We observe the formation; if one becomes dominant the rest of the group should come up and absorb that dominance back into the texture of the group
We change pace, shape and modalities, we play
We move when we feel a pull to, we do not need to talk but we might
We bring attention to where we reside and move around the space and each other
We let our bodies speak too
We embrace circumstance, we embrace the erotic
We dismiss the logic of navigation
We orientate by desire