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The practice begins with the creation of personal material by freely improvising physical movements and vocal sounds until a clear physical and emotional association is established. A series of associations are then created. These associations are then individually refined to become as exact and repeatable as any structured movement. Once the association is refined it is called a Glyph. An aspect of Glyphs are they keep their improvised quality being immediate and may seem to the spectator to be created on the spot, but in fact are highly scored. Upon creating a series of Glyphs, they are then put together in a larger sequence called a Petroglyph. The Petroglyph is a montage of physical and vocal scores (Glyphs) combined in such a way as to create an action. Shaping the Petroglyphs through pacing, duration, tempo and dynamics allows dramatic arcs to be rendered. The Petroglyphs are then aligned and rendered again into a piece with a rhythmic coherence. For the You is made up of fou

Kristen Holfeuer / For the You / ᕦ What happens when we remember? What happens when we delve into the memories of others? Are we entitled to the knowledge contained in the memories of those who came before us? I don’t feel like this piece was created so much as remembered. If process, form, and content all inform one another, it is only right a piece about memory should be created by remembering and then shaped like memories floating (or sometimes hiding) in the brain. - Kristen ... engages the ancestor, lets her speak giving back her voice. Tells a story to the ancestor in ourselves. For the lives of others to truly matter the ancestor must be encountered to open the present. ... Walter Benjamin in 'The Storyteller', "less an answer to a question than a proposal concerning the continuation of a story which is just unfolding." ... enlists the ancestor to an attentiveness that lives & moves from breath to breath, body to mouth, sound to word singing the world we

A path through the drama is merely where the words aren't: an immersion and connection. What's it about? Where is it? These are not exactly the right questions; It is an entering deeply into relationship that is the way of following. It is surrounded by actions; if it had a nature, it would be the associations all around that touch and shape the territory within it. That's where you watch, isn't it? That's how and where you wonder. Everything you've seen you've seen from it. At every instance you expect what is hidden everywhere. You know it because you are the story. :: Note :: ...... apologies to Samuel Menashe Reeds Rise From Water & Crispin Sartwell (The Green door Issue 4 Here / Now / Here ...) ...