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  Last night we had a really nice session about how young and prosperous dance artist can shape the cultural change. Despite really unstable internet connection I could intuitively manage linked pieces together to understand what Becky Namgauds, dance artist and choreographer wanted to say regarding the subject "Communicating ideas". I am very grateful for her honesty and so open minded sharing experience. Sometimes is really hard to words or trying to articulate relationship between the art and life, between power, control, sexuality, negativity, femininity, freedom, hierarchy, ...What actually involving us actively as an artists? how we can communicate, define, understand? what language to use? yesterday we had a chance to see how powerful images can be, but how powerful words (rupi kaur's poem) can be and how this can work on our body and mind! we definitely need space for the dialogue, create new narratives, new places, being present and brave or like in the end of se...

 ...... must admit I am a bit overwhelmed...but the good thing is my current situation is not permanent destination:) currently i am in the mood of writing every thought that came to my mind regarding research project, even while i am cooking, watching TV, taking a rest...i am walking with my little note book around the flat and catching the right moment to clarify how will i frame my inquiry... so here are my thoughts...moved by Sondra Fraleigh's books, Dewey's thoughts, Husserl, Ciane Fernandez, Bartenieff movement patterns...and others.. f luidity flowing change why stillness is still moving?  we need fluidity to get better and functional, need for re-patterning, change, braking habits.. in order to have better fluidity we  need to maintain breath, we need to be rooted, to have knowledge about stability and mobility, kinesthetic awareness.. according to different emotions, feelings, knowledge experience we change our floating body, breath, tempo, quality, making decisi...

  If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word. (MARGARET ATWOOD)     Yesterday morning we had another very useful and helpful workshop on writing skills. We focused this time more on academic writings but also on reading too.  We went through an experiment how to actually read the academic text, article, what strategies to make while reading and how how engage with the text. I have learned that actually we can know more about the text and make a selection after reading first sentence. First sentence is a summary sentence.  We need a good reading strategy otherwise we are lost in the battle with the time and amount of texts we need to digest. So one of the main question we brought to the workshops is what are we looking for? what is the topic? why is relevant? how is the text organized? like i said we need a good strategy, reading technique. Regarding that, Peter offered us a MIND MAPP in 5 steps: 1. survey;2. questions; 3.read; 4 recite; 5. one of ...

 Last night we had a very useful and stimulating session on Module 2 and we open the discussion on what we are doing? what we are looking at? and how we are applying into the undergoing research on our practice. Helen explained well how we need in module 2 build an understanding of different frameworks, make scratches, not trying to do a big research, not trying to define anything. What is related to critical thinking, and what is important for our research, ought to be meaningful to us and related to our practice. So we need to find out what we are proposing, what kind of theoretical approach, how we are going to get some answers about our inquiry? what framework we are using so far? to find theories that goes with the topic of research, with the core of practice... what is the best approach? we must look deeper into the own practice. Confusion at this point is great, gives multiple perspective, keeping us in the process, we expect to be messy, it should not be all linear...We mu...

Theories and Frameworks/ Sunday Discussion group/March 7, 2021 Yesterday we had a very profound conversation led by Angela Woodhouse and she opened some pathways and understanding to seeing my practice and framework differently, from female, artist either movement researcher perspective. As an visual artist, choreographer, researcher she scratched the surface of interesting themes such as dialogue on the lights, obligation/decision making, questions about simplicity, emptiness, sharing experience through the different materials, testing the patience of time, bodily-spatial relationship through a framework of collaborative making, ...We were also talking about democracy, inclusivity, participation...and again brought me to my thought about the way how i am understanding the world, environment as a creative artist and movement researcher and how i embody those things in my practice and research inquiry.  I have noticed that Angela spoke about Covid situation and how she was interest...

  Sandra   March 3, 2021 at 11:36 PM Last three weeks i am really preoccupied with thoughts about my plan proposal research. My brain and mind are overwhelmed a bit, cause searching means charging the energy but also exhausting a mental sources. Since i have completed all my duties to MODULE 1 , proposal for the next stage brought to the wall, to the dead end cause i was asking myself on daily basis, ok, what will be your research project, what is of your best interest, for what are you longing for to search... Somatic work is so enormous, huge as ocean and i am in the middle of the ocean in my tiny boat and sailing somewhere ( i still do not know..) but then, i started to think, ok, let's check aol areas, key words from your work and start from there, from the facts i wrote about it, from the simple things, and i started from the conscious and why conscious matters...Firstly, we reflect various things. We proceed from the first movement and breath point of view....

Sandra   February 22, 2021 at 2:34 AM I am very grateful for Peter Thomas writing workshop, ideas and tips about free and academic writing. Since I was not able to participate during my Module 1, i am really content i could hear some new and useful thoughts about writing. So, Peter gave us in the beginning of the workshop a little task to write about WHAT IS WRITING? I wanted to feel that free-writing flow, i did not want to think a lot, and to implement only the impulse of the moment...so i wrote.... every experience starts with an impulse. find an impulse in you own hand and just start ... throughout that impulse we expressing ourselves, sharing embodied thoughts through the words we are connected in a very intrinsic way with the experience, paper and pan at the given moment. Somebody mentioned that writing is a capturing a moment... agree, and than we are framing that moment into something meaningful, valuable, with satisfaction..This is a process, a constant process o...