Solo with a 'polyphony of character' while conducting an academic and asemic round-dance-research in Art Studio. My dance research is framed by the inquiry into/with the 'author-performer' and 'witness-performer' interplay and thinking about shared practice/place.
This summer was mostly about solitude: reading, writing, drawing, painting, and dancing alone in the 'gray box' of the art studio, where I did my dance research on relational presence, shared space, and solitude itself.
Why solitude?
Tarkovsky, in an interview, suggests to young people to love solitude–to gain the skill of being alone, as he put it, “being with yourself more often.” He thinks that humans should learn from childhood to be alone.
“The individual must learn to be on his own as a child.”
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Russian literary critic and linguist Mikhail Bakhtin defined polyphony as a literary technique that gives characters their own voices, independent of the author or narrator. The word polyphony comes from the Greek and literally means "many voiced". Bakhtin's concept of polyphony is based on the idea that all voices are equally important and that no one authority should dominate. He believed that polyphony is a way to avoid a monological mindset and to explore the possible.
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