Falling Downstairs

Falling Downstairs was inspired by the large outdoor metal stairway at  the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.

Notes on Descending the Staircase

Bride….awkward…graceful...stable….unsure….elegant….tentative….tumble….recapitulation….catapult…knocked unconscious…returning from a dream…reminiscent…

Imagine  

See the image of the woman-in-white on the stairs
Embody the image…..let go the tension and breath……see the surroundings…let go the tension and breathe, .allow the body to change…follow the changing….breathe….see the surroundings…

Images

Visual, as in seeing falling head over heels
Verbal,  as in  "catapult" 

Repeat from See the Image/Embody the Image

Descend

Step down…"goal" is to descend and ascend, so just do it:  just take the step

Appetite

Appetite/Desire determines the progress.  Take the step up or down in the most pleasurable and, perhaps, interesting way possible.   

Follow the desire/pleasure/appetite while seeing the surroundings and breathing

Do this descending/ascending appetite until another Image arises

Sound

Sam Haar's mix of Beethoven's 7th,  or Going Downstairs (from the soundtrack of Young Victoria, re-mixed)