> lunch and paper work
> inducted into the space
> introductions: dance history, working context, background
day 02 -- Donna, Gelo, Dean, Sammie
> further introductions
> link between arts administration, managing, (and curating) with choreography or the choreographic as a practice in managing, creating and organizing spaces, bodies, and "selfs." Both which involves the distribution of information, knowledge, power, "the sensible"
day 03 -- Donna, Gelo, Alex
> What it means to be "independent"
> (managing) strategies to maintain independence/be independent
> Dependent Independents : movement between network of interdependencies
- network of dependence/dependency
- network of independence
day 03 -- Donna, Gelo
> Administration as choreographic
> The choreographic as an administrative activity
day 04 -- Donna, Gelo, Sammie
> growing list of aphorisms on independent practice, independence, and being indepedent
> How to become independent -- manual (?)
> The Independents as institution
> success or independence
day 05 -- Donna, Gelo, Dean
> Gelo meets with Yaz on how to utilize Campbelltown's facebook account, among other mediums to promote the Saturday presentation
> Dean adds marginal comments on "provocative" independent propositions
> Quick meet up with Seb on technical requirements for Saturday's performance. The architecture of the theater as a clear administration of audience and artist.
> We decide to move the seating bank to face each other -- a beginning
> we ran out of paper!
day 06 -- Donna, Gelo, Dean
> Dean shares his Foreign Language scores to Donna who hasn't moved since her last performance a month ago -- ascending, descending, cruising, neutral buoyancy...
> more independent propositions:
- Does independent practice have a use-by date?
- Must institutions that foster independent practice have an agenda that once fulfilled, allows them to
self-destruct?
- Are you independent if you are tired of being independent?
- Does independence enable failure?
- Do independents have the freedom to drop out?
- Without funding is there an independent practice?
> A trip to Queen's Street Studio, Sammie takes us for a tour.
> But before that a quick stop at Happy Lemon along Broadway St.
> Catching Julie Anne Long and Martin del Amo's "The Night is Young and We are Not" at Queen's Street Studio -- dancing, talking, and singing.
