Eva Feng
3. Unfixing
Response after daily Unfixing movement practice
Unfixing, first founded by Deborah Hay, is a movement practice of letting go of habitual movements, expectations, and fixed ideas about how the body should move. It allows movement to emerge in the moment rather than adhering to predetermined patterns or aesthetic judgments. It usually involve a score to adhere. During the class Site-Specific to Immersive Dance Theater: Choreographing for Unconventional Formats and Spaces, professor Danielle Russo introduced this concept, and we developed our own prompt to practice every day for the entire week. Here are some of the responses to this practice:
Movement prompt:
1. I take a spin and start from here. I smell the damp and dusty, slightly sulfur-infused air because of the nearby burning crops weed. The dusk introduces those clouds with one side of brightness and one side of darkness to me.
2. I want to take off my socks and run in the mud, but I remembered someone spit in there before. But I don’t care, I want to receive everything offered here, whether it’s good or bad for me.
3. I am in the middle of two buildings, the sun is setting, so I need to move to chase the light. I jump in between the darkness and light. In the dark, in the light, in the dark, in the light.
4. Till there’s no sunlight anymore. The civil twilight along with the blinking streetlights and lattice lights from tall buildings made me feel extremely alienated and homesick. But I am not sure where my home is. I don’t think I have a root.
5. I began slowly walking, aimlessly. I encounter a dog in my lower left side peripheral view, he is with his human companion behind him holding the black leash. The dog wants to surpass me, I don’t want to. I speed it up to keep him just one step behind me.
6. Why I am always being so competitive? I want to take my time walking. Plus, the cold wind blowing on my face is like knives when I walk faster. Why should I compete with a dog anyway? Let them surpass me. I don’t know destiny yet.
7. New york west village’s wind is different from the Brooklyn rooftop’s which is different from Seattle’s which is different from Rome’s which is different from Hangzhou’s. I am not sure where am I right now because the wind on me is not from those places.
8. I remembered a line from a book “The thing I miss the most about being alive is that you can sense the flow of the air on your face when you move. As a ghost, I cannot feel the air” I should probably cherish that now.