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story
It starts like a tightening
And pulls out the teeth before it hums in closer
What could you enter without it
Like clouds or stars or everything we saw before it changed
Which never happened anyway
 Mixed beyond shape
How scrawl can we lift
How long can we lung
How bare can we seep
 Not touching it no
Never even dreaming of it’s long finger
Which points past what we have ever seen
 Actually I’m dreaming of something
I’m standing on something
I’m believing in something
I am something
A thing
Which is somewhere
Without having to include detail
Rest assured it is material
Could you escape such a thing
 Could you escape such a thing
 I’m telling my name but it keeps coming out
Without the ending
Or too many consonants
My head in a bag somewhere
Rolling over and over
Revealing the water I couldn’t touch
Because my boots still needed more time to come to terms with whatever I had created to make them feel less like worthless skins
 It’s not a message
 It’s not something in place of something
 A picture you could pull out and wear around
A cutout to fool those from far away
A land mine
Waiting to share itself
Entre Los Do is the first film from projectLIMB. It the product of a collaboration between Miriam Varela Quintero and Gabriel Forestieri in two very different places.…
From Moreré in Bahia, Brazil
An edited version of a performance in Barcelona shot by the amazing Nicola Scandroglio. Here are notes in spanish. El deterioro está bailando con nosotros todo el…
Fourth entry in the worlding blog
Entry from July 29th 2014, on the beach of Lake Tahoe
Transcription of Worlding Blog 7/29/14
well here I am in Lake Tahoe
I just finished a project in NYC
called a show of force
it was a group of nine men and musician
on Governors Island where my great-grandfather was actually posted when it was still an army base
although it has since passed from coast guard to public park
which now is mostly used for art events and concerts and recreation
but there are still a lot of old buildings that remain on the site
and I used themes of violence in the work
so I did a lot with martial arts which is actually  one of the ways in which I entered into dance was through martial arts
it was definitely a fascinating project to watch how violence changes the body and how you work
how different it was when it was phrase movement sort of dancerly movement as opposed to martial arts movement
how the body would tend to get more tense and close up and our work to open that up
it’s quite a powerful process actuallyÂ
and some people really had to open up their work and their performing to get to some of the places we got to
I don’t really have any final analysis on violence
it’s such an enormous topic
but definitely I dealt with the violence in my own self
my mind how violent my mind is with my self
judgementalness things like that
and also of course the violence going on in the world right now
which is so horrible so massive so painful
and just totally unnecessary
self propagating self fulfilling
just continuing continuing continuing the cycle
it was a hard project for me this one
I think because just being in NYC is challenging for me
but what a reward to get to work with such great artists
it’s always the trade off which is why i can’t live there anymore
but also why i appreciate it so much
and have a healthy respect for going there
and especially living there
memory seemed to be a huge theme that came up to with it
i guess because of it’s outdated use
as a military base and
my thoughts on that on history
were that nothing that happened ever goes away
never gets any betterÂ
all those people still died horribly
all those terrible things happened all over the world
everyone still did all those thingsÂ
you can’t ever take that away
but that just gets farther and farther away
that’s all that happens
and it still leaves with us now
and that we can deal with
our present feelings and emotions about what happened
but the actions are done - forever recorded
and that finality is
can be terrifyingÂ
and I think also can turn you into a cynic in a moment
just the thought of all those horrible things
how will we ever change anything with that past
and of course our present isn’t exactly paradise obviously
and least not in terms of the human realm
obviously the earth is paradise
it’s just our minds that create all these conflicts
our namings, our groupings, our ideas, our opinions, our separations,
our need to be right, to be special, to be different.
in my process this yearÂ
this is my fifth piece in almost as many months
seven months
and i feelÂ
I feel energized in terms of work
i feel excited to make more and continue
this projectLIMB continuous tour
and although the value of such things is very hard to understand
because of it’s ephemerality and fragilenes
but in those moments of just absolute beauty that exist for that briefest of instant
I feel the value of it
I feel in it in the group sensation of everyone together
but there is very little record of that value
and I think just allowing the giftÂ
the gifts that we constantly receive from being
without identifying which gifts we prefer
like “ oh i’ll take that one but I’m not sure about this other one"
that openness then you can enter into something much deeper
much fuller more real than all of the layersÂ
that we call - that we erect for - making sense of our place in the world
we could just share
we could just share
and trust
that that was our purpose
and breath the air and feel our bodies
and smile at how wonderful it is that we get to be alive
An amazing video of a performance in Barcelona shot by Nicola Scandroglio. It is the entire work of Escales de Forestier.
This performance is dedicated to the memory
of Augusto Gualdi
Worlding Blog from Barcelona on June 8th, 2014
Transcription of the Worlding Blog from Barcelona 6/8/14
this is the second entry in my wording blog
I’m at the escales de forestier
which is the place I found that shares my name here in barcelona
and i have been running into the theme of death over and over and over again here
it’s very strange
on the second day i found a pigeon that was completely eviscerated - probably by a seagull
it’s belly was so red
then
the space itself has this decay all around
it’s a once cared for space for lots of plants
now has a lot of homeless people kind of living in and around itÂ
even though right above is this fancy hotel
and then one of the dancers came with me here
and we found a book of Edgar Allen Poe just sitting on the wall
it was the raven and other poems
in catalan and in english
and then a friend of mine who is performing
remembered that he knew one song from Schubert
which is the raven in German which is also about death
and so I have a very strong theme here in this space
I even have a solo that begins on a tomb like slab of stone
and it’s a question for me about time and change
this continuing process of creation and then departure
and reaching in and out at the same time
it doesn’t seem like there is much of a chance to create illusions
 if you don’t have that much time
you can’t really sell any of them - you know
without time it’s -  it’s what’s there
and dying to the things that you do always bring with you
is the part that really makes me wonder
 wonder how wonder where wonder why
wonder technically how
to leave the things behindÂ
to be freshÂ
and really the only way to be freshÂ
is to let the things we hold on to die
we have so much fear
of losing ourselves
in that death
our identities and our dreams and our whole direction in life
butÂ
when you can let those go
then there is a moment in which you share
you share completely
without demanding anything
and so that’s how I celebrate death in myself and in this project
because death is renewalÂ
not only loss
Leviathan is a project that rose out of my desire to connect my practice with the world. I have been working outside for several years but still in fairly proscribed…
A link to the work that is mentioned in the blog post
Transcription from May 16th 2014, on top of mont juic
(this is the transcription of the audio entry - so no comments on grammar)
is the first entry of my new blog.
I am calling it Worlding based on my practice and experience of working outdoors and researching a style or an inquiry into creating art that participates with the world. In which I play a kind of transmitting role and less of a controlling role. I am now in the process of traveling the world, creating communities (not the best word ...) for a moment about a month or so, sometimes more. Working on a project, performing it, and then leaving. and through this process I am realizing that, there is no beginning and end to the process. That the second you realize you are dancing with the world, then that's all you are ever doing. That's all any of us are ever doing. Your work, your play, your sleeping, your relationships, your family, they all filter in of course. It's not just when you enter a studio or a class or you start writing down things on paper. Those are only steps.
I also realize now that doing this is my only response to the state of the world. To the things we seem to be interested in as humans. Or .... or the kind of force that's driving us that desires more of which I also participate and have through my traveling created quite a carbon footprint, of course. In a way my only response to our. . . to our paradigm is to say look. Look around you, No, really look. Experience - stop thinking so much and just experience. We only have sensation and experience. The thoughts just cloak those things. they take up space in our mind we could have for sensation and experience, which are really the same.
so I say it's a miracle and I walk around and I point and I say it's a miracle. it's a miracle
and I want to participate in the miracle.
Of course, I am but I want to feel that. I want to experience that. and I am realizing more and more that is the nature of my work and why the body is so important to that.
My friend, Adrian, wrote a story for me on a project called Leviathan and he constructed a kind of science fiction fairy tale about a being from another planet who, had a ship that was comprised only of memory banks and the alien had a technique in which, it could transfer every moment of it's experience into copious amounts of data. Recording every possible aspect of the sensational experience of a moment and then recording it in this gigantic memory bank. In which the alien would constantly experience and then transfer these sensations these experiences into a ship. and I realize how . . how correct he was in this story, except there is no ship there is no memory bank. it's a desire for us all - us all to make room for for experience and sensation, instead of criticism, instead of judgement, instead of control.
Well if you actually made it to the end thank you - this has been my first entry in Worlding.
the continuing process of Gabriel Forestieri