In Friday I was gifted with 2 guests :)) Essayist Gislina Patterson (who asked many wonderful questions!) and the fantabulous dancer Citlali Solis Hernandez (en la foto de arriba). So very grateful to dance with her!
Gislina commented that it was very satisfying to watch us dance in time with another, get out of synch and then return to being in synch again.
We went through my choreography ideas, via real time movement, specifically
- the close to the ground "wounded" movements like the 3-legged bear crawl, the backwards booty scoot and the pushup/hand push back floor rise
- movements thinking about the transition from wounded to well AND the transition from underground to above ground and how the movement quality changes when moving through earth versus air
- ground-like digging movements in the odd, hunched over middle level that dancers are rarely in for more than a few seconds. this to me is like our ability to be underground, unlike water we can never really be immersed in the earth a move about
- a movement that reminds me of a worm moving and sensing and also of a seed starting under the earth via sensing roots
- a movement phrase about speed, all the roots down there some from plants that last 2 months, some from 300 year old trees. Growing at different speeds, all together. Rock beings versus 7 year asleep in the ground bugs versus seasonal beetles
- imitation of centipede and root with so many legs or tentacles or moving at once
ABOUT CITLALI (Instagram) - Citlali Solis Hernandez is a Mexican emerging dance artist as for now located on Treaty 1 territory Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canadá. She began her training at CENADAC in the city of Queretaro, attended the Summer Dance Intensive at ENDCC in Mexico City and a Graham technique diploma course at CEART, she will graduate this year from the Professional Program at the School of Contemporary Dancers in Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA. During this period Citlali has had the opportunity to work with choreographers such as Rossana Filomarino, Christine Dakin, Deyanira Castañeda, Matt Steffanina, Paula Blair, Gaile Petursson-Hile, Lina Cruz, Mehdi Farajpour and others. She also performed at the "Palacio de Bellas Artes" in Mexico City for a tribute to Guillermina Bravo in 2014. She participated in the Project of Mujer Artista Puesto/Place 2020 as an interpreter in Gabriela Ortiz’s choreography “Yo sé que vivo entre paréntesis” also in the last edition La cura/The cure 2022 as a choreographer of “Catarsis” and interpreter of Gabriela Ortiz’s piece “Vaadhoo".