Anna Kortschak

06/10/99

How did you gauge your body as an average on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being very low, 10 being very high) in terms of the following parameters during the day:-
Temperature Range:6
Density:8
Energy Level:6
Speed:7

What are your main observations and/or experiences from the MB?
Really low in energy today. Very slow.

What are your main observations and/or experiences from the Manipulations?
Tired. Sore. But good.

What are your main observations and/or experiences from the Ground Work?
The ground work today was fascinating. Worked with finding correspondances with four elements, a shadow, a tree, a rock formation and a grass and then locating them in different parts of the body. At first separately and then simultaneously. It's wild, exhausting, fabulous to experience my body so differently, to disorganise it to the point when it loses some of it's memories. We followed with dream boats, I found a beautiful boat shaped patch of sunlight and let myself float and my body dreamed. I find word pulse extraordinary. The words trigger sensory memories that trigger words, the flow takes care of itself, drifting in eddies and flows. Words come back day after day but the patterns shift, they connect differently. Such a lot of sadness surfaces. Boat. Float. Wave. Weave. Wash. Weep. Heart. Hope. Heart. Break. Divide. Decide. Discect. Word. Flow. Heart. Beat. Wing. Beat. Blood. Flow. Contain. Skin. I find the work totally intruiging but it is so personal I wonder where it will take me as a performer. I guess all knowledge settles somewhere and contributes.

What are your main observations and/or experiences of the whole day?
Still tired. Slept in the river bed. Starlight. Walked to the top of the ridge to the north during ground work and west for a bit to visit a sparkling tree. I was late back for the work but it was fantastic to leave the confines of our familiar workspace. I like the country to the north. The rocks are rounded, volcanic, layered. Some petrude from the ground in jagged sheets and others form flat expanses that are gradually flaking away. They sound hollow when you tap them. The vegatation is quite dense in places. The view from the top to the south and west over the valley plain to the ridge is fantastic. You can see the track of the river lined by the ghost gums.

 

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