iLAND: Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature, and Dance

Choreographies of Disaster Performance April 24 and more spring updates from iLAND - https://mailchi.mp/f00aeaa/a-score-for-the-solstice-5035333

More gorgeous images from the upcoming talk and workshops

Take a look at the diagram Cata shared!

Check this out. An amazing artist working with what I think of score/diagrams. This residency will be amazing.

A FRIDAY SCORE, December 11 This week’s score is offered to be done in two or more pairs. It can be done outside or inside, together or virtually. It can also be done with two individuals. A chance to create and respond together even if apart. Slightly altered text below or swipe for original. much love, @jeniwavelength & @gatablanco ... Object Score - Sound, Movement, Design Each person collect 2 to 3 objects from around their site. Decide on the borders of your workspace (around two to three square meters). In pairs or individually, outside or inside, together or virtually connected on different sites, work through a series of three-minute timed exchanges - one focusing on sound, one on movement, and one on designing the space. For a specific amount of time (between three and seven minutes), the first pair or individual activates the work space(s) with the objects, focusing on creating and listening to sound. The other pair or individual witnesses. Switch roles 2 to 3 times without speaking. Repeat this sequence, focusing on movement in the space, and then a third time, focusing on designing the space. Finally, both pairs or both individuals move the objects together in the space working with sound, movement, and design simultaneously. Discuss and reflect on the experience. #weeklyscore : Gata Blanco https://www.instagram.com/p/CIqTz2urBgp/

A FRIDAY SCORE, December 4 This week’s score asks for consideration of street trees, our urban forests. Can be done solo or as a group, and indoors with house plants. Slightly altered text below. Swipe for original in Spanish & English Much love, @jeniwavelength & @gatablanco ... Urban Forest Hike Create a list of 10 to 15 short and surprising instructions for interacting with the urban habitat of a tree-lined street or your house plants. If you wish, invite other participants to join you and to pick a random instruction to follow. Instructions may include: Find the fifth tree and squat beside it for five seconds. Stand and repeat every five trees. Walk down the middle of the street. Look up. Go ahead, hug it. Move faster than the person ahead of you and then slower than the person behind you. Visit every tree. Walk 15 pieces. Touch, listen, smell. Walk 10 pieces. Touch, listen, smell. Walk five pieces. Repeat. Tell participants to hike from one street corner to another, traveling the full length of a city block while executing their random instruction. Or, if indoors, travel the full area of their home while executing their random instruction. Meet at the end of the block, or virtually, to discuss the experience of seeing the city street or your home as a forest. Aerate the compacted soil in a tree bed or potted plant, play with movement, pace, and posture. End by interpreting the movement and posture of a tree or plant. Use a tree limb or leaf to extend your movement possibilities. #weeklyscore #guiadecampoilanding : @gatablanco https://www.instagram.com/p/CIZMr4FLfHO/

November 27, FRIDAY SCORE This week we offer an invitation to explore stories and myths of place. Can be done indoors or outdoors, alone or with others. Slightly altered text below or swipe for original. Much love and gratitude, @jeniwavelength & @gatablanco ... Corn Goddess Score Find a myth that resonates with you and the site you are researching or are on. Share the myth with others if you like and read the myth individually. Read the story out loud. If sharing with others, gather and read together. Brainstorm phrases that capture the story succinctly, identify striking visual images, and call out themes. Perform the myth, stepping fluidly into and out of multiple roles, connecting personal experience with mythic narrative. If a group, have each person step in and out of the multiple roles. Improvise; shift emphasis, timeframe, time period, characters perspective. Debrief and write or discuss. Tell the story again in its most skeletal form. #weeklyscore : Gata Blanco https://www.instagram.com/p/CIGTkNWL8-y/

We're catching up on some Friday scores that made it to IG but missed Facebook all week: see here from November 20 A FRIDAY SCORE Re-orienting with the second score we posted ... swipe for the full version in Spanish or English. Shortened text below. ... Much love, @jeniwavelength & @gatablanco Orientation Score Stand and close your eyes. Notice the surface beneath your feet and how your body minutely adjusts its balance. Notice where your weight is falling through your feet. Sense how gravity is pulling you gently towards the center of the earth. Shift your awareness to the surface of your face. What kind of light do you feel on your skin? What air movement do you feel? Notice your breath‘s movement as air passes through the lips and nostrils and fills the lungs, then passes back from the body - warmer and a bit more moist. Watch the movement of your breath rise and fall in your torso. Once you have fully arrived, close your eyes and turn to face north. Open your eyes - how did you determine where North was? Consider your strategies for orienting yourself in this place. Close your eyes again and turn to face your home. This is defined in any way you would like - where you are, where you were born, where your ancestors are from. Open your eyes and noticed the direction you face and the paths that have brought you to this place. Close your eyes again. Listen to a nearby sound. Even one inside your body. Take several minutes to fully listen to the sound. Then listen to the farthest away sound that you can hear - listen fully. Imagine the space between the near and the far sounds. What is in that space? Can you measure the distance? What does that space feel like? Open your eyes. Look at an object quite close to you. Notice as many details as possible - color, shape, texture. How long has it been there? How long will it remain? What do you know and not know about it? Then look at a very far away object and observe the same details. Sense the space between the objects - what is there? What does it feel like? Start to notice movement and let it begin to move you through space - responding to your own movement or simply moving towards or away from movements, sounds, objects. Fully inhabit your movement in this place. #weeklyscore #guiadecampoilanding @gatablanco https://www.instagram.com/p/CH0II1uLpQt/

If you've enjoyed our Friday scores, please consider giving $5-10 to iLAND (see donation link in bio!) to fund the field guide Spanish Translation -- any amount helps! Our goals is $2000 - Together we will make this happen! ¡Gracias! : The field guide cover beneath some plant leaves with the text above overlayed on the leaves.... https://www.instagram.com/p/CHigVd4rTkv/

A FRIDAY SCORE This week we offer a tuning into which way the wind blows ... Can be done outside or inside in front of a wide open window. Slightly altered text below or swipe for original.... Much love, @jeniwavelength & @gatablanco Score for Perceiving Wind’s Effect Follow the path of the tall grass or the direction your clothes move each time the wind blows. When you feel it blow, note on which side of your face you feel it. Note how it swirls and changes direction through observing the grass, your clothes, or other objects moving in response. Note where the garbage lies and is blown. Stop when the wind seems to blow in all directions and try to note the dominant direction. Walk that way. Turn and face the wind. Change direction. Notice how it feels. Notice when there is a void. Walk towards the void, the place where the wind dies down. #weeklyscore : @gatablanco https://www.instagram.com/p/CHiZNBtrPFD/

A FRIDAY SCORE Days get shorter and cooler in the northern hemisphere, longer and warmer in the southern. This score offers a chance to be outside in relation to things bigger than ourselves but can be done indoors as well. Slightly altered text below, swipe for original. Much love, @jeniwavelength & @gatablanco ... A Score from Inwood Tree Rings to a Glacial Pothole to Erigone‘s Tail At twilight, fit your body into, onto, or around a large boulder or some large rocks. Or fit your body into a part of the architecture of your home. Palms down against the stone, wood, tile, or brick, fingers fluctuating between moments of levitation, feel the heat from the day’s sun or heat moving outward from the surface’s body to your body to the night air and out to the stars. Imagine time, movement, and evaporation; light and decay outward and up, up, up. Eyes open and focusing on the western evening sky: Remain with the rock or surface. Inhale deeply, slowly, into the rock. Knowing that planets are passing one another. inhale deeply, slowly. Knowing that some star or planet is at its closest or farthest cycle to or from the Earth in our lifetime. Inhale deeply, slowly. Exhale quickly with several Ha! Ha! Ha!’s Slowly, with intention, press your body deeply into the rock or surfaces grooves, growths, and dips. Sink into the rock’s or surface’s layers, crust, and the core to the Earth’s movement and vibration. Imagine the many cycles of movement, time, evaporation, light, and decay. Close your eyes, place your feet on the ground. Hum the earth’s vibration. Hum the earth’s vibration. Hum the earth’s vibration. Aloud. Slowly open your eyes to the evening night. Lift your body from the rock or surface without parting and stand on your feet. S T R E T C H upward out. https://www.instagram.com/p/CGshWZrMb_t/ #weeklyscore : @gatablanco

A FRIDAY SCORE This week’s offering allows you to witness yourself navigating a place with clarity and focus - define as you wish and need. Can be done indoors or outside. Text below and swipe for original. Much love, @jeniwavelength & @gatablanco ... Score for Experiencing Yourself Experiencing the Terrain Clearly define an area of space to consider for the score. Set a predetermined time (two, ten, thirty, sixty minutes, etc.). Use the whole time to cross from one point on the perimeter of the space to the other. Track your perceptions (related to the space or not) in chronological order as you cross the terrain. Document your experience (with writing materials or some other recording format). #weeklyscore : @gatablanco https://www.instagram.com/p/CHQhpTVr6ye/

A FRIDAY SCORE This week we re-offer a tuning score for grounding where you are, resiliency, strength, and care. Text below, swipe for original. Much love, @jeniwavelength & @gatablanco ... Sound Body Texture Notice the textures and materials of the surfaces around you. Use your body to make the softest sound you can make. Gradually increase to the loudest sound and decrease back to the softest sound. Repeat as many times as you need. #weeklyscore : @gatablanco https://www.instagram.com/p/CG-EsEgLdyP/

A FRIDAY SCORE Well-trafficked spaces ... microecologies ... Bringing attention. If you feel safe to practice this score, please wear masks when interacting with others outside and enjoy the engagement. ... Text and context below, swipe for original. Much love, @jeniwavelength & @gatablanco Amplifying What Is There Choose a well trafficked public space. Invite passersby to use chalk to map and amplify the microecologies creeping through the sidewalk. Try to notice how each passerby‘s approach differs from the departure after participating. We used the score outside the Hispanos Unidos Garden, a thriving community garden that sits between the top of the watershed and the Bronx River. More than half of the people walking by stopped to join us, some even coming back and one teen emailing me to say how much she enjoyed it and wanting to know when she could work with us again. The shift that happened in all of our bodies - both in terms of level and speed, as well as in terms of delight and play - was significant. My favorite example of the shift was a father who was barking walk at the younger of his two boys, who was trailing behind him, as he approached our drawing. I asked if the boy wanted to join, then eventually we encouraged the older brother and dad to draw (he drew a cartoon face). When they walked away less than 10 minutes later, the dad was holding the boys hand and his pace have slowed to accommodate the child. Perhaps as we continue collaborating, we can begin mapping the area in such away block by block, with the communities that live there. - Paloma McGregor, 2012 iLAB resident #weeklyscore : @gatablanco https://www.instagram.com/p/CGaNINyMQfT/

So looking forward to talking to Seitu Jones! Please share! It's happening tomorrow!

A FRIDAY SCORE How do we plan our paths through space? This week’s offering can be done indoors or outdoors large scale or small scale. See text below and swipe for original. Much love, @jeniwavelength & @gatablanco ... Migration Mapping Look around you. What natural elements are visible? What habitats? What human-made elements? What water sources? What movement do you see? What sounds can you hear? How is the air moving? Notice the light, the shadows, the edges between light and dark. Choose an animal, bird, or insect that inhabits this place. Choose a point A and point B. Note why you chose them. Migrate as your animal, plant, or insect from A to B. What structures, plants, habitat would you gravitate towards? How quickly do you move? Are you affected by wind, sun, obstacles, predators? Note your physicality. At B, draw a map of your journey. #weeklyscore : @gatablanco

Register at the link in bio! We're so excited for @jeniwavelength and @nibia.pastrana.santiago to participate in #vTDIF2020 this weekend! #repost @texdanceimprovfest Say what?! Only $10 to access our full festival lineup happening in just two short weeks! Get registered at the link in our bio. #vTDIF2020 #virtualdancechristmas ... https://www.instagram.com/p/CGDMuTesbWo/

A FRIDAY SCORE This week’s offering contemplates public spaces and private actions, the seen or unseen. Can be done with others or alone. Slightly altered text below and swipe for original. Much love, @jeniwavelength & @gatablanco ... Riverside Score In a small group, or solo, walk from one end of the site to the other, and then back again. As you walk, share or note on paper any ideas that emerge and stop to perform the following actions: Identify which way the water is flowing and walk backward against the current for one minute. Make an inventory of smells. Which ones are near? Which ones are far? Which ones are private and which are public? Identify an aspect of the built environment that spatially seems to invite public performance and look for evidence of private acts happening in the space. Identify an aspect of the built environment that reminds you of the body or the digestive tract. Discuss how this body part may facilitate or interrupt flows of the city and flows of the river. Move through or along one of these aspects of the built environment, emerging on the other side as if entering a stage. Pause for a moment and consider your audience. Shift perspective and become the audience. As you walk back to the place you started, find a surveillance camera and perform a private act you may have observed or imagined in an earlier action. #weeklyscore : @gatablanco https://www.instagram.com/p/CF2BhiLsnL2/

A FRIDAY SCORE This week’s score was written originally for the summer solstice and we offer it here to mark the week of the fall equinox. Read text below and swipe through for original and @jeniwavelength ‘s context when it was created. Much love, @jeniwavelength & @gatablanco ... 24-Hour Durational Score Every hour on the hour, write down the temperature, weather conditions, and your current states of being: emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual. Then write down two questions. After the 24-hour period, review the data and note similarities and differences between different hours. If doing with others, compare notes with other participants. Create dance scores for periods of the day - dawn to midmorning, midmorning to noon, noon to midafternoon, midafternoon to early evening, early evening to dark. Perform the scores. #weeklyscore : @gatablanco https://www.instagram.com/p/CFkAM8mMNoC/

A FRIDAY SCORE This week’s score partners internal with external, scale with sense. Can be done alone or with others. Read slightly altered text below and swipe for original.... Much love, @jeniwavelength & @gatablanco Above Middle Below I. Research the history of your chosen site. Gather in person or virtually. Take time for the group to introduce themselves to one another. Begin with guided conversation about the history and ecology of the land you are on. Identify a large tree to stand under at least arms length apart. This large tree is home base. II. Close your eyes for three minutes. Starting at the top of your head, work your focus down your body ending at the bottom of your feet. Scan or visualize all of the layers of matter within your body (hair, skin, facia, bones, organs, fluids, etc.). Focus on the breath to aid this internal visualization. III. Start at the highest point of the site. Dissent to the edge of the site, using the following chance operation: Determine a cardinal direction to move toward by randomly choosing a colored thread. (we chose to use the Native American concept of the medicine wheel to determine this: north=white, west=black, south=red, east=yellow.) Then determine a sense that corresponds with your cardinal direction that will initiate your process of descending to the edges of the site. (we used Chinese elements to determine a sense: north=hearing, water; west=black, metal; south=taste, fire; east=vision, wood.) For a specified duration, move through the site, driven by your selected sense and toward your chosen cardinal direction. With fabric, a needle, and as much thread as is needed, make stitches to notate anything that resonates or is sensed throughout the duration of the experience. IV. Return to the large tree and engage in open movement for the same amount of time used to explore the site. #weeklyscore : @gatablanco https://www.instagram.com/p/CFR5w_TMz5i/

Applications for the Queer/Art Eva Yaa Asantewaa Grant for Queer Women(+) Dance Artists is a $7,000 grant are due October 4! https://www.queer-art.org/eya-grant https://www.instagram.com/p/CFNAdjOMxo5/

A FRIDAY SCORE Sept 11 Past and present coastlines, remembering, and sensing are the focus of today’s offering. Score can be done at a shoreline, from memory, or virtually. Text below or swipe for original.... Much love, @jeniwavelength & @gatablanco Reimagining a Coastline Find old historical maps that depict the coastal edge. Get as close to the water as possible and trace or walk the historical edge. Draw your image of the coast line with chalk or a stick on the ground or a pen or a pencil on paper. Populate the drawing with depictions of animals, plants, and insects that used to live there. Walk your physicalization of the historical water’s edge and imagine the texture, moisture, and hardness or softness of the land beneath your feet as it would have been. Close your eyes and smell both present and past. #weeklyscore : @gatablanco https://www.instagram.com/p/CFAEF4QM9dk/

A FRIDAY SCORE - Sept 4 This week’s score, made in Queens, NY, can exist in any landscape, indoors or outdoors, and can be done solo or with others. What other bodies listen? If with others, please practice safe social distancing Slightly altered text below. Swipe for original. Much love, @jeniwavelength & @gatablanco ... Listening and Moving Score for Long Island City Start standing as close together as is safe in a pair, circle, or cluster. Listen. Fluidly alternate between moving and listening while gradually moving from the safety and support of the ensemble out into the greater space. Even when separated spatially from the rest of the group, remain in visual contact with at least one other listening body. Feel the energetic support to move your body in response to what you hear. Let the tangible, kinetic sense of a listening community manifest in an increased eagerness to move, to explore a bigger kinesphere, to follow louder physical impulses. Discover how the senses can rest in the power of movement. #weeklyscore : @gatablanco https://www.instagram.com/p/CEtzLCksAjV/

Listen to long-time iLAND collaborators Zeena Parkins and Jeff Kolar's new work "Scale" They both worked together with Jennifer on 'bend the even,' also mentioned in this article https://m.chicagoreader.com//zeena-parkins-and-je/Content