Re: distance and fiction
erespess@inil.com
Wed, 11 Aug 1999 01:11:59 -0400
i have done very little writing, but i can say as a choreographer that what
mattis described is a very similar process to what i go through as i create
dances. it begins with an idea in the form of a very vague impression.
the impression can be of a single dancer, a costume, a movement, or a corps
of dancer in synch. i begin to play around with the idea (in my head or
through movement) without giving it any conscious thought, sort of letting
it take me wherever it goes. but at some point it shifts from almost a
dreamlike state to being very practical. then it become very separate from
me - an outside thing to mold ("this turn would be easier on my left foot
than my right", "the momentum needs to shift to get from point A to point
B"," what if we tried intertwined arms here"). it is very interesting to
me to think of the similarities here.
elizabeth
><< I have to say that I don't have the least
> idea what I'm talking about, or how one can see the creative process
> working in this way, yet the possibility is intriguing.
>
> Have fun.
>
> Mattis >>
>
>Well, you sure understood me pretty well dead on :) I think the creative
>process works pretty differently for different people -- or maybe we're just
>more attentive to different details of the same process.
>
>So in a sense this really is apples and oranges :)
>
>BUT, it is an eeenteresting subject. I'd like to see it developed.
>
>Jim