Eva Feng
3. Kitchen piece
KITCHEN DANCES – SOUND IMMERSION LABORATORY
“Reframing the Known” using New Narrative
This is a class work in Site-Specific to Immersive Dance Theater: Choreographing for Unconventional Formats and Spaces, taught by professor Danielle Russo.
The prompt is to explore movements with learnt techniques (Authentic Movement, Contact Improvisation/Mobile Architectures, Found/Pedestrian Movement, Embodied Architectures (Forsythe Technologies), Sensory Objects, Object Play, Psychology of Space, etc) within the space of kitchen with the soundtrack of Julia Chid.
Here was my writen response: The rhythm of Julia Child's voice sets the tone of my movement quality. To accompany her unisexual, cheering, and warbly voice, my movement quality exiles beautiful long stretches, curves, and embrace crisp, sharp, and fast movements. I also get affected by the content. When she says about pans, I pick them up, when she describes the eggs I imagine I am those shivery eggs, and when I feel her darting through the kitchen, my movement comes to be across the kitchen. The storytelling way of explaining cooking makes the process a rather fun experience. My movements become child-like when she says something that personifies the objects or something funny. The personification also inspired me to interact with the objects in a more unexpected way, using a perspective in which children explore unfamiliar objects and territory.