Movement Poetry: Body as Score Workshop
Wrokshop/Scoring
Body as Score is an experimental workshop exploring the body as a site of writing, memory, and performance. Through movement, textual performance, objects, and improvisation, participants translated embodied experiences and social gestures into a collection of texts, images, and actions as self-portraits.
Materials were generated, transcribed, and rewritten into movement poems with collage editing. The experience transformed the space through scores that could be entered, performed, and reinterpreted.
This workshop is based on the publication The Unfamiliar Body, turning its methods of embodied writing into a collective process of making. Writing becomes an ongoing scoring cycle between language and the body.
Transcription and archiving, from gesture to text and poetry:
/ Objects and Naming / ...objects and shaping; present and pastspace; memory; body and other bodies...
- Movement Records - ... translation of the body; archiving of movement and the body; observation and recording of the body; imagery of movement and the body; The memory of the body; body as archive; body as a social and cultural phenomenon...
(Perception and Sensation) ... the body's present perception; mind-body connection; the dispersed body; the bodily reaction; the body and time-space; translation of the body; body narrative; translation of perception ...
Nothing in the pocket
But a pocket is needed
Pain
(Hey!)
( )
How about that potted plant? Bugs growing on the umbrella
Yu Ke
Uncomfortable
(Sometimes the need to express is a burden of "♾️")
/Necklace/
/Not headphones—it's the spine, brainstem, and bone/
/The happiness of headphones/
So what if I don't take action! House, fragile shell, release
House, fragile vessel, release
/Enveloping/
Dust seems ready to scatter at a touch—finite, bounded
Air, scent, breathing
Dust, finite, boundary, space, breathing
-Lights on
The beginning was alright, too-
-Lights off
And then, not bad either-
END
NO, END
My legs are getting sore
But a pocket is needed
Pain
(Hey!)
( )
How about that potted plant? Bugs growing on the umbrella
Yu Ke
Uncomfortable
(Sometimes the need to express is a burden of "♾️")
/Necklace/
/Not headphones—it's the spine, brainstem, and bone/
/The happiness of headphones/
So what if I don't take action! House, fragile shell, release
House, fragile vessel, release
/Enveloping/
Dust seems ready to scatter at a touch—finite, bounded
Air, scent, breathing
Dust, finite, boundary, space, breathing
-Lights on
The beginning was alright, too-
-Lights off
And then, not bad either-
END
NO, END
My legs are getting sore
Author: chongli
-A performance of behavior constructed in reverse-
-Just wanting to spread ideas-
Where shall the possibilities go to hide?
The heart reads this lifetime
Plenty of battery power
Body heavy, head heavy
Purpose... heavy!
In a corner of the world—standing, listening, sitting, listening—radiating light
Right! Let's go!
-Just wanting to spread ideas-
Where shall the possibilities go to hide?
The heart reads this lifetime
Plenty of battery power
Body heavy, head heavy
Purpose... heavy!
In a corner of the world—standing, listening, sitting, listening—radiating light
Right! Let's go!
Author: Yu Ke
/The shaver lying down, acting cool/
-Clutching and striking the chest-
-Body and mind shuddering-
(Engaging the core)
-Handstand-
-Dodging blows-
/Conviction/
(Like a jellyfish)
-Spacing out, zoning out-
-Spanking someone-
-Rubbing eyes- -cursing at me-
-Clutching and striking the chest-
-Body and mind shuddering-
(Engaging the core)
-Handstand-
-Dodging blows-
/Conviction/
(Like a jellyfish)
-Spacing out, zoning out-
-Spanking someone-
-Rubbing eyes- -cursing at me-
Author: David
/The person singing with a razor/
-Sneezing twenty times-
Using -a hostile glare- and
-a squirming lower body-
-Taking off pants-
-streaking-
/The person biting the razor/ Touching the gray
Getting (kicked) (it really stings)
(Walking forward in fear)
/Eye drops taken via the ear/
-Sneezing twenty times-
Using -a hostile glare- and
-a squirming lower body-
-Taking off pants-
-streaking-
/The person biting the razor/ Touching the gray
Getting (kicked) (it really stings)
(Walking forward in fear)
/Eye drops taken via the ear/
Author: Fizzy
/A soft embrace/
How do we embrace?
Ripples of memory, always intermittent
Unable to look directly
At the bottom of the frosted glass bottle
No matter what, I can't see through
What is she thinking? Or just zoning out?
In a daze
Coming back to reality, only to find a few more scrapes
Arms wrapped around herself
She lies flat on her back
-Everything is so comfortable-
—
How do we embrace?
Ripples of memory, always intermittent
Unable to look directly
At the bottom of the frosted glass bottle
No matter what, I can't see through
What is she thinking? Or just zoning out?
In a daze
Coming back to reality, only to find a few more scrapes
Arms wrapped around herself
She lies flat on her back
-Everything is so comfortable-
—
Author: snake
/Music is a way to embrace the air/
How to hug the air?
Pure
Reassuring
A light always shining
Sunlight on the body and eyelids
Drowsiness sets in
-Everything Stills-
Fly Me To The Moon
How to hug the air?
Pure
Reassuring
A light always shining
Sunlight on the body and eyelids
Drowsiness sets in
-Everything Stills-
Fly Me To The Moon
Author: chenyu
Madonna
1.
/Opening this book again/
old pages
(IT felt like I was in the story…)
2.
(Same Pose)
Black music
/In this moment, sharing emotions with this book/
-My comfort, my focus-
emotional
3.
/In this moment, victory!/
-Set me free-
-Back to the beginning-
.END.
Raif
1.
/Opening this book again/
old pages
(IT felt like I was in the story…)
2.
(Same Pose)
Black music
/In this moment, sharing emotions with this book/
-My comfort, my focus-
emotional
3.
/In this moment, victory!/
-Set me free-
-Back to the beginning-
.END.
Raif
Author: Ziyu
/On the hill/ Who walks away?
Who defines the world?
-I don’t care-
-Tell yourself, you are safe-
(It’s okay, a pat on the head) Keep walking
/Loving it/
-comfort zone-
(Noisy. Suspended. Supported. Bright)
Here
Still here
Who defines the world?
-I don’t care-
-Tell yourself, you are safe-
(It’s okay, a pat on the head) Keep walking
/Loving it/
-comfort zone-
(Noisy. Suspended. Supported. Bright)
Here
Still here
Author: Liz
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