the skirt as a catalyst to my inspiration

Loie Fuller, i am inspired by you..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loie_Fuller

check out some youtube footage





IDEAS, i'm just letting them flow....conversations on gmail

Veronica & i ....creating here is a piece of our conversation...(just for kicks)

Veronica:......i like the race/ border/ invasion feelings that conjures up

but it's more just about black white... silhouettes

11:34 PM me: hmm--womyns bodies exploitation, borders

or the body

Veronica: skirts, protection, aesthetic beauty, guarded

hiding bodies.

deformities

11:35 PM me: hiding gender

Veronica: i like the idea of some cross gender things

hiding too many limbs

hiding too few...you know

11:36 PM revelation. disrobing not what you expected

me: what do you mean

Veronica: throwing out words

11:37 PM because the skirt is beautiful, it hides, it reveals

it teases

11:38 PM me: hmm, it's sacred, its appeasing, it can be controlled

Veronica: what if what was underneath, wasn't what you expected? or what if that's just implied... or what if it's shown

me: underneath the skirt are secrets

11:39 PM Veronica: yep

we're onto something

me: yes

here are some thoughts to chew on...
i am inspired: by using a skirt to create projections. i would like to project words, textures, images, create patterns.

i am inspired: to use a skirt because it replicates the ocean waves, river streams, & represent divinity. it holds secrets, is a passageway to a liminal state (in between state).

dance forms i'd like to explore--yemaya, oshun, punkin', bomba, postmodern, sabar...i am interested in working with the arms and upper half of the body....