Drawing and moving to Antarctic texts

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Christine McMillan moves in response to words from Jack Ward’s 1966 Mawson diary, read by Yoris Everaerts:

02.05.1955 /
shadows

The cold transparent blue of the ice plateau
has become a softer blue opalescence.
Clefts and hollows in the ice cliffs have lost the glowing almost radiant blueness
and become dark shadows.

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4 Replies to “Drawing and moving to Antarctic texts”

  1. cold stiller
    angular inside
    yet hollows rounded as voice
    draw with body
    see far the plateau
    sun changes
    cold transparent blue
    soft opalescence
    lost radiance
    colder stiller
    Dickson

  2. Christine writes:

    cold stiller
    angular inside
    yet hollows rounded as voice
    draw with body
    see far the plateau
    sun changes
    cold transparent blue
    soft opalescence
    lost radiance
    colder stiller
    Dickson

  3. Moving to the words read out deepened my sense of being in the place described.

    Moving with Christine, I became aware that we made similar gestural responses to some of the same spoken words. For example, when moving to the word ‘lost’, I found us both reaching out with arms and eyes, and slowing to a soft stillness. It made me think that there are certain learned gestures that have become a shared vocabulary.

    Someone reminded me today about Rosalind Crisp’s movement improvization, in which she deliberately subverts anything she does that seems habitual.

    Does a recognizable response necessarily signal a cliche?

    Or is this only when it feels like one?
    It can simply be a clearly phrased communication.

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Posted on Saturday, November 10th, 2007