Proprioceptive writing as a tool for dance filmmakers

[Deirdre Towers]

Laura Taler, maker of the wonderful A VERY DANGEROUS PASTIME and Village Trilogy, said during her talk at Dance on Camera Festival that one of her professors urged her to use proprioceptive writing as a part of her practice.  "Through PW you learn to listen to your thoughts with impassioned curiosity, reflect on them imaginatively, and set them free."

Put on music that can run for 25 minutes, listen to your thoughts and play on them in print daily.

 

According to Wikipedia

"Proprioception (pronounced /ˌproʊpri.ɵˈsɛpʃən/ PRO-pree-o-SEP-shən), from Latin proprius, meaning "one's own" and perception, is the sense of the relative position of neighbouring parts of the body. 

In 1906, Charles Scott Sherrington published a landmark work that introduced the terms 'proprioception', 'interoception', and 'exteroception'. The 'exteroceptors' are the organs responsible for information from outside the body such as the eyes, ears, mouth, and skin. The interoceptors then give information about the internal organs, while 'proprioception' is awareness of movement derived from muscular, tendon, and articular sources."

Suggestions to get started...

soak in the  natural world

close your eyes and take slow, deep breaths. 

[Jeannette Ginslov]

Thanks for this. I have been working on something similar, trying to include a phenomenological approach to link the moving body captured by the camera with the viewer!