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Do Dreary People Know That They Are Dreary?

by Chris Harris It is an interesting question, because most people experience themselves from the inside rather than from the outside. From within their own thoughts and concerns, their behaviour feels normal and justified. What others might perceive as dreary, whether that means overly negative, monotonous, humourless, or simply draining, may feel to them like being realistic, serious, or…

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The Process: “Trying”

For this assignment were asked to create movement based off our human movement observation. After we reread the study, we were to pick to movements or gestures and create a 0:45-1 min piece with these guidelines:

> Gesture 1: explore in two ways or with two different movement qualities. Continuing with gesture one, move that movement/gesture/quality to a different body part. 

PART B: 

>take gesture B, and explore it in two different ways and in two different body parts. 

^take one of those qualities and add to a different scale^

*Then it’s up to you on how you want to connect all those things. 

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This assignment was confusing to me at first, but once I asked fifty-million questions, it clicked that I literally just had to pick two motions and go from there. 

GESTURE 1: hunch/hunching of shoulders and upper back 

GESTURE 2: texting with fingers 

Once I settled on these gestures it wasn’t that hard to translate them into literal movement that adhered to the guidelines. I worked hard to add them to 3 different scales, and I knew I wanted to incorporate some sort of percussive element as I love using time. Also, tap is one of my favorite styles and I’ve known all semester that I want to incorporate it into at lest one of my studies. The “texting” motion seemed appropriate, and I really wanted to slow down each phase of that with progressively dwindling each phrase by hitting the ‘erase’ button. 

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Am I the only person who gets the distinct impression that people definitely hear you, but they aren't fully listening? I find I can always tell because it's always a situation that arises that proves that that person hasn't listened to a goddamn thing you've communicated to them. People try to chalk it up to all kinds of stuff, but at the end of the day it's just plain old bullshit. No one of worth talks to just hear themselves, that's why it's called the Art of Conversation, because it actually takes talent.

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