Cooperative Practices: Bebe Miller and K.J. Holmes @ Bearnstow, Maine, USA

http://www.dance-tech.net produced by Marlon Barrios Solano dance-tech@ BEARNSTOW, on Parker Pond, Mount Vernon, Maine (USA). Marlon Barrios Solano interviews Bebe Miller and K.J. Holmes in the context of teaching "Cooperative Practices: Body-Mind Centering® and Creative Process", August 22--28, 2010 From the Bearstow Website: KJ Holmes and Bebe Miller will collaborate in leading this workshop, laying a groundwork of interdependent elements drawn from their approaches to creative practice. We'll use K.J.'s application of Body-Mind Centering® (BMC)* as a lens to creative process, with Bebe's choreographic strategies for embodied awareness in dance making. Designed as a creative retreat, this week provides time for guided practice, individual exploration and group dialogue. http://www.bearnstow.org/ Each day will contain a guided warm-up, exploration of BMC® principles with K.J. and choreographic strategies with Bebe, time for individual practice and reflection along with time to enjoy the Bearnstow environment. We invite you to translate between land and lake, artful-ness and mindful-ness, and note the information that rises from a canoe stroke, a sunset, a conversation as well as our dancing. BEBE MILLER, choreographer, has been making dances for over 25 years and established Bebe Miller Company in 1985. Currently serving on the Boards of Bearnstow, Danspace Project and Dance Theater Workshop, she resides in Columbus, Ohio and has been a Professor in Dance at The Ohio State University since 2000. K.J. HOLMES is a dance artist who has been exploring improvisation as process and performance since 1981. She is a graduate of The School for Body-Mind Centering (1999) and currently is adjunct faculty at NYU Experimental Theater Wing, continues to teach at Movement Research, and is exploring the relationship between movement and language, and the body and the earth in her choreographies and theater work. Body-Mind Centering® (BMC) is an eclectic and dynamic approach to somatic training and re-education through systems development and evolution developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen.

Hi Marlon,
It's not the quietness I find unhappy... it's certain tone - hard to describe really.
I think I felt a sort of lack of trust for the words on behalf of the speakers, a sort of rigidity and defensiveness, oh so subtle... but you know what - I think I see this a lot coming from our part of the globe! (states/canada) I really wonder why... I've often wondered if it's because we're so young as nations and are still trying to defend or define ourselves and our beliefs, in a system that's already created it's fair share of damage... not an easy task.
I rarely leave comments on the net like this... last night got to thinking "out loud" with what is really just a big question mark in my head ;)
cheers
It's my problem, not yours ;)

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Marlon Barrios Solano August 26, 2010 at 6:05pm

I think it is good that we can have this dialogue...
yes... and it can leave impressions...
I have felt unhappy many times and well here I have felt that I don.t need to be anything else.
There has been certain solemnity and reverence to the place and nature...
Rae Bowhay August 26, 2010 at 5:43pm

Hi Marlon,
It's not the quietness I find unhappy... it's certain tone - hard to describe really.
I think I felt a sort of lack of trust for the words on behalf of the speakers, a sort of rigidity and defensiveness, oh so subtle... but you know what - I think I see this a lot coming from our part of the globe! (states/canada) I really wonder why... I've often wondered if it's because we're so young as nations and are still trying to defend or define ourselves and our beliefs, in a system that's already created it's fair share of damage... not an easy task.
I rarely leave comments on the net like this... last night got to thinking "out loud" with what is really just a big question mark in my head ;)
cheers
It's my problem, not yours ;)
Marlon Barrios Solano August 26, 2010 at 4:48pm

ha... hi... this is marlon...
hum...
it is interesting that you say that we/they look unhappy...
this video was made with footage shot the first day of the workshop and we did a lot of walking and and contemplative activities.
the place also is very beautiful and calming!
So, I tried to reflect that state and speed. Moments of quiet and bit of introspection.
I think that everybody was very content of been here.
Quiet can be interpreted as unhappiness...perhaps...
Rae Bowhay August 26, 2010 at 5:11am

Why do you guys look so unhappy?

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