Drawing bodies in motion

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Supported & held monthly at @rambertdance Studios

Session held on 14th october 2022

I was invited by choreographer Attila Andrasi @attilaandrasiartist to work with him in a session he was leading for the first time.

He facilitated a movement research process with a creative tool titled 'Perceptive ball' which will lead you to experiment with a playful mindset, and curiosity and to arrive at the hyper-performative momentum to gather experience from the ecstatic and recessive state.

Focusing on perceptual attention and variation of the constant self-reflexive internal and external observations and the physical dialogue within the practice.

Attila is a Hungarian dance practitioner, and performer working in a multidisciplinary medium. His nature of choreography practice is experimental, playing with internal and external stimuli. He is mainly focusing on navigating somatic experience which defines the abstract authentic movement language. He graduated from the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy and the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance. Currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts Choreography - Choreography diploma at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire with a bursary from Leverhulme Arts scholarship.

I painted 5 paintings working in a horizontal format on the floor. I mapped the development of the movement in response the Attila's guidance to the group of dancers.

The colours and marks were captured in a purely intuitive manner responding to the activity in front of me. You will see a held gesture or sequence of movements translated in to gestural brush marks. In one painting I translated a slow walk in to a set of repeated outlines. Strategies as to how to represent a movement are thought up in the moment. For slower dance passages a more considered mark can be used. For quicker body movement a flick of the brush to represent a the sweep of an arm in space might be used.

The paintings are not an activity of accurate representation, they are about feel and energy. They should be read and decoded with the eye. Each time you look you will see another figure appear from the captured abstraction. I have developed this painting style over the last 6 years capturing a number of dance forms.