[NetBehaviour] Lost, on top of being lost— how fucking lost is that

[Simon Mclennan]

Mmm, yes often it is slow, however there are no real boundaries from what I’ve seen and those
dancers I have worked with.

Atsushi Takenouchi performed in Hove Park near my house a few years ago. We attended. He moved at many different speeds. 

Following are some films I made after my experience of seeing butoh and attending workshops in London and Brighton
and being married at the time to a butoh dancer/teacher - Carolina Diaz.

The workshops allowed me to feel my body in a rather immediate and powerful sense, while becoming aware of how
I wanted to move my body. Like an unfolding of myself in time and space! In a small way I began to feel myself in
the moment so to speak. It felt like a very powerful practice.

I think it appeared in Japan around the same time as the Gutai expressionist movement (1950s), which I see as possibly related indirectly.

Caveo Vestri Mens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTSG8cHANSA

Glass Flesh Kiss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUwsKgLh1HE

The drawings I made in Glass Flesh Kiss were a decade prior to this film. They are around 300 A4 charcoal drawings in negative,
filmed on B&W reversal super8 film, scanned and reversed.
The soundtrack I made using piano, guitar and reversed human voice recordings, written to accompany the completed
visual material of that film.

Thanks Alan for the interest!

Simon



 


On 8 Sep 2020, at 14:52, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:

> quite like this. the Butoh seems 'fast' in comparison to other I have seen. 
> have you done more work like this? Best, Alan
> 
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 5:02 AM Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
> https://youtu.be/W3MyDDc1SVY
> Thought this could be aired again - from 2015.
> 
> Filmed performance of The Advocates of Dereliction.
> Featuring 
> Carolina Diaz - butoh dance, choreography, costume.
> Mark Anthony Whiteford -Saxophone, voice, tapes, percussion, texts.
> Simon Mclennan - camera, editing.
> 
> 2015 - Portslade, Sussex.
> 
> From a single long improvisation.
> The sub-section titles concept in the film are from Carolina Diaz.
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
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