Presentation

Vault Meeting #3

May 6–7, 2018
Jacob’s Pillow, Becket, MA

Meeting Notes by Sarah Lass

Presenter: Bebe Miller

Bebe discusses A History and Motion Bank

  • Interest in engaging what occupies most of our time—the making, not the showing
  • Angie talks about ACCAD motion capture of “story state”; evidence of transmission, artist-artist conversation, and finding of common ground

Bebe discusses The Making Room (website and ebook)

  • Finding a home for all the stuff not explicitly in the piece
  • Collaboration with Lily Skove and the priority of documenting experience as opposed to the work itself
    • Questions of changing “uses” of archive re-emerge (Reggie), ownership of objects of archive, collection of evidence versus the act/intention to collect

Body-body transference and bleeding of influence (mayfield; Angie; Bebe)

  • Recognizing differences in dance communities and the predominance of online exchanges in some (Rachel)

Bringing in non-improvisation-based work that engages with cultural forms (Reggie)

Questions of ownership, archiving, and access (Reggie)

How to go about conveying/transferring creative process (mayfield)