UNO:

 A group effort between illustrators, animators, video artists, break dancers and the Siobhan Davies Dance group young Choreographers

  Motion/Gestures/ things to try

El Seed’s work was always fascinated me for its fluidity, like Chinese calligraphic paintings. I think his work is specifically in tune with the interpretation that is setting the tone for the project our group, UNO is currently working on. We have decided to invest in language, to explore what it means phonetically and tempo-wise to the dancers, and we then want to reinterpret what it means to us. Contrasting the two disciplines of conscious(us, the concept developers) and unconscious (them, the reaction dancers) reflection of different languages, we hope to catch a glimpse of what we as humans react to in ‘foreignness’ so we can speculate a theorisation of our own.

It is clear which direction my ideas at this point were anchored in mark making through exploring gestural movement, the flow from the mind and heart to limbs, as an extension of our abstract existence is materialising through our work.

Fluidity was where my mind was at,  and, basing myself in one of the sketches Miranda made early on when talking about language, which reminded me of an animated series which draws from organic dance-like moves to create fascinating animations. Below are a few sketches of the series characters, suggesting the way in which I thought of applying it to a possible rotoscope.