Sawing the legs off chairs in Reckless Sleepers' A String Section. Issue 1 (1st April 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kendall, Lisa H.
• Is Part Of: Choreographic practices. Volume 7:Issue 1(2016)
• Page Start: 139
• Page End: 142
• Publication Date: 2016-04-01
• Subjects: Dance -- Philosophy -- Periodicals; Dance -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Choreography -- Periodicals; 792.82
• DOI: 10.1386/chor.7.1.139_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2040-5669

Abstract

'Sawing the legs off chairs in Reckless Sleepers' A String Section' considers the present and presence of the moving body, as a living and lived processual, experiential archive. These artist's pages present and represent a micro-reflection upon the moments of live, experimental, improvisatory performance, rearticulating the possibilities of amassing, revisiting and representing theatrical, performative and daily experience(s) through a specific one-woman perspective. The written micro-reflection as a strand of the archive as identified above is devised as a response to a lengthy multi-stranded association with the practice of the work and its processes, with this written micro-reflection serving to expand upon the creative knowledges of the moving body in archival dialogue with A String Section.