Dianne Reid, in her blog, describes herself as:
“I am a performer, choreographer, camera operator, video editor and educator. I work in both live and screen contexts. As a creative artist I am interested in making work that tells stories, drawing attention to the ‘individual’ experience, the emotional and psychological landscape which ‘lives’ in the physical landscape. I use improvisation as both a means to create dance material and an end in itself as a performance form. I use it to access the manifestos in my muscles, the legends in my ligaments, the tunes singing in my bones, the inventions building under my fingernails, the ideas running through my hair, the dreams drowned in the lens of my eye.”
Seems a beautiful way to articulate the experience of dancing. I’m always searching for new ways to demonstrate this intangible sensation…
There is a similarity in our perspectives. I also find the joy of dancing, of choreographing and creating is in drawing out the individual experience. Personalising it, creating stories, telling stories… beyond the scope of the clinical and the logical, I prefer the experiential, the humourous, the quirky. For me, that outlook encourages a developing scope of material, questions that can keep you asking more, and more, and more, and more…
What’s your take on dance?