Long distance collaboration

3/20 Sarah McEnaney wrote:
So, Celeste, what is on your mind re: structure you are exploring. 
Let me know more.

3/20 I responded:

I am attaching the "Choreoscript" - the improvisation I want to play with starts on page 5, "Scene 6: Improvisation Score". 

A)  "One Idea"

B) "Solo/Ensemble" with dancers choosing which of the words to say, causing solo/ensemble to take place; adding in "mirrors" half way through

C) Written block to traverse on diagonal.  1, 2, 3

D) Accumulation

E) Vocal accumulation, improvisation tableaux sculptures each for "Archemides" "Napoleon" and "Galileo's Tears"

I will explain what each of these improvisation structures are in the next email.  For now - anything you want to respond to with: images, movement ideas, text responses - most welcome!

xox

3/21, Sarah: 

Fantastic.
I just glanced at the script. Zeroed in on "water", found the attached
photo that I took at the Hindu Temple in Lilburn, GA.
Just a first thought.
Can't wait to read all later this evening.

3/22 Sarah:

(with a vision of Archemides Screw in my head)

We are soothed
We are cleansed
We are promised
We are poisoned
We are transported
We are flooded
We are saved
We are drowned

3/22 Celeste: 

Celeste/score:

Using the kinesthetic idea of Archimedes Screw in which water is taken in at the bottom and travels up the threads of the screw as it rotates, create the following as a movement score. 

To soothe

To cleanse

To promise

To poison

To transport

To flood

To save

To drown

I keep hearing all the speeches from Michigan's Governor running in my head.  How he tried to soothe, promised to cleanse, when actually he was poisoning.  Bottled water transported to Flint, flooding the residents with bottled water, trying to save the people who are drowning. 

Archimedes Screw: