CORE: Embodied Investigation with Nancy Stark Smith. Week 1

[Rachel Boggia]

Renowned contact improvisation teacher, writer, and editor Nancy Stark Smith calls this exercise "hieroglyphs"and describes it as "writing from the body." You will need a pen and paper.  

 

You can choose to do this activity by listening to the mp3 or following the youtube video below

 

 

HARVEST:

Please share jpgs of your hieroglyphs (you can take pictures of them or scan them) and your comments in this forum

 

[colleen bartley]

[Sue Lauther]

Fun image I saw after I'm done is Nancy's new logo with the back of her head and a braid :-).  (Images near the middle in photo below.)  I enjoyed mining for different qualities and upon finding something that felt a little different, made an imprint.

[Kaisa Kukkonen]

[Claire Coveney]

I enjoyed the process of extending my whole self onto paper. My glyphs look to me like music and I was surprised by how I like the look of them.

I loved seeing others glyphs and how they are so , not surprisingly, varied.

[Claire Coveney]

part 2..

[Elena TaJo]

I feel quite appreciative to be given permission to pay attention to the movement in my body.  I thought it would be impossible to represent with a squiggle, but now I understand something new.  

[Jessica Muise]

[caterina mocciola]

[caterina mocciola]

[Natalie Heller]

Cn recognise my signature in these patterns although I always thought of my movement as more circular this angularity is me too.

[Marisa C. Hayes]

Better late than never, I hope! 

[Wanda Gala]

an inroad to embodying the subtle energetic states of visual data

a preliminary lexicon of feeling scribed

now to attempt to read another. embody another? has anyone given this a go? are we going to write back to eachothers messages (those we find in eachothers glyphs) ?