Dancing With Your Environment
DANCING WITH YOUR ENVIRONMENT It has been 6 weeks since my surgery and I am moving better and better. So I started to dance again. It is a dance of a different in-between than before: because the restrictions are not coming from pain they are followed intentionally, prescribed by the surgeon. It makes for a […]
Creating Your Own Micro-Short Screendance
CREATING YOUR OWN MICRO-SHORT SCREENDANCE What saved me (and still is) from insanity as I have to rest and rest and rest for recovery, is my creative process still being stimulated: through the articulation of this blog as well as all the short films video/audio exercises soundscapes photographies I have been creating in the meantime… […]
Walking – The Inspiration Behind My Next Screendance
WALKING – THE INSPIRATION BEHIND MY NEXT SCREENDANCE Anatomy of a Storm • Geneviève Johnson • Picture from video by Gary Prendergast For my next poem in motion, I decided to start by creating a soundscape around WALKING from which the movement and the visual will take shape. (I touched on the creation of soundscapes a […]
Close-Up: The Microscopic Choreography
Close-Up: The Microscopic Choreography Close-Up Choreography: The Dancing Cells and Fibers The body is often seen as the subject of the dance. With a different point of view, it can also become the location of the dance. My whole body can move in the landscape of a field through out the trees and tall grass. […]
On Recovery Process: The Fear and After
ON RECOVERY PROCESS: THE FEAR AND AFTER Reconstruction • Geneviève Johnson A Story It started last week, Saturday after my Friday surgery. My surgeon is a great surgeon but not known for his bedside manners. (I laughed about this with every nurses I met during my stay.) You don’t meet him before and certainly not the […]
Dancing Hands Meditation For Recovery
DANCING HANDS MEDITATION FOR RECOVERY Of Delicate Patterns Blackout poetry • Geneviève Johnson Going Back to Stillness This week, my recovery has started. I feel my body getting stronger, more stable and balanced each day. A subtle fear is still floating over everything. The unknown is always a little destabilizing. But I dove in and I […]
Moving the Poem of My Broken Body One Last Time
MOVING THE POEM OF MY BOKEN BODY ONE LAST TIME Joint Stutters drawings and xray • Geneviève Johnson the twilight hem fades my body motionless the mouth of the bone vomits caterpillar nests until dawn breaks Narrowing of My Past World Since June 2019, when the first pain hit me, to today, day of my hip […]
Creating Soundscapes for Performance and Art Installation
CREATING SOUNDSCAPES FOR PERFORMANCE AND ART INSTALLATION I am taking an exciting audio creation course this semester as part of my Digital Media studies at VIU. It was a little intimidating at first because I am not a musician but it turns out that sound scores can be much other things than music. The world […]
Working with Family in Arts
WORKING WITH FAMILY IN ARTS Couleurs by Romane Nagy I have the chance to be surrounded by very colourful creative family members who are involved one way or another in my creative projects. My niece Romane Nagy is blossoming into a wonderful visual and performing artist; Her brother Guillaume Nagy is creating very playful electronic […]
Somatic Dance to Promote Acceptance and Healing
Somatic Dance to Promote Acceptance and Healing Each and everyone of us is carrying a world. A world of sensations, feelings, embodied images and words … whispering its presence. A world with the deep desire to materialise. In an ebb and flow kind of way. This inner world is the source of our somatic dance expressing […]
