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Bodily Filing begin development via a 2007-2008 residency at Counterpulse Theater in San Francisco, funded in part by the Ken Hempel Fund for the Arts. Bodily Filing is a collaborative journey, exploring undefined emotions stored in our bodies. Communication is not only spoken, but collected energetically. Often, the energy behind explain action or intent. It has become more and more apparent to me that people's energies are more authentic than their words. This discovery has led me to theorize that our body houses physical manifestations of emotions, thoughts, ideas that cannot be described in words yet contain an immense amount of personal energy. Intersections of multiple emotions at once manifest into completely conflicting sensations, not easily described on any one level. And often these sensations are unpleasant or confusing, so we hide or bury our reactions in our connective and fluid tissues. Our body stores content that it stems from human interaction, but beyond verbal identification. Perhaps because it resides in the body, we can come to understand it through movement.
Through this movement research, we developed material generated from these physical places of emotional storage. The dancers were deeply encouraged to choose honest reactions, as opposed to canned responses and find honesty behind all the superficial layers of identity: gender, race, economics, education and the artiface we put on, even down to the fabric we wear... Our rehearsal roadmap focused on dissecting emotional energy. Through group discussions, trigger exercises, idea-to-illustration, we designed figurative bridges from communicative language (written, spoken, indicated) to internal lodging and action.
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