Worlding

v. Fully inhabiting body and space while continuously refreshing all relationships without naming any aspect of experience as a means to share identity.

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Para todos mis amigos sudamericanos, hice una entrada de blog en castellano Los extraño a todos ustedes!

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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

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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.…

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From Moreré in Bahia, Brazil

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Escalas de Forestier full edit

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…

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Fourth entry in the worlding blog

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Entry from July 29th 2014, on the beach of Lake Tahoe

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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 actually 

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 better 

all those people still died horribly

all those terrible things happened all over the world

everyone still did all those things 

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 terrifying 

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 year 

this is my fifth piece in almost as many months

seven months

and i feel 

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 gift 

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 layers 

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

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Escales De Forestier

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

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Worlding Blog from Barcelona on June 8th, 2014

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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 it 

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 behind 

to be fresh 

and really the only way to be fresh 

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

but 

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 renewal 

not only loss

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Leviathan

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…

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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

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Opening Blog Entry on May 16th from the top of 

Montjuïc in Barcelona, Spain