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the archive and movement laboratory of conceptual dance theatre company A House Unbuilt... spending at least an hour a day, making space, marking time,—making enough room to feel, tremendously, again.
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HUB 621:
Danced until 3am at the wedding. We closed down the dance floor. It was pretty exhilarating. In a lot of ways, dancing with a partner, so freely, until exhaustion, is my favorite kind of dancing… I get the biggest rush.
HUB 300.2:
Text Improvisation—Peggy Phelan/Architecture of the Body. Finally time for sifting through last week’s work in the studio. 
HUB 262.1:
Somehow sidetracked myself into the magical world of Cornelius Hackle and Irene Malloy here—all at the hands of Dolly Levi, matchmaker and dance instructor (it seems!) extraordinaire! …oh internet, how I love how you jump and dance as I purloin this footage on jumping and dancing! 
HUB 247:
“opening the curtain” on playgroup today. having an audience to “play” to, that liveness, well, it sure beats out any documentation in my eyes… at this point, at least. hmph.
HUB 240:
A different kind of partnering here, but partnering still. Rough edges all on show today but delicate touch through the feet.
HUB 239:
Notation in response to the following prompt, and notes upon performing from notation in this day of second rehearsal…
What I’ve been thinking this morning is as follows:
I realize now that the structure for the performance has been with you the whole time. That in your images and your sources you have been supplying me with the performance, I was simply too locked inside of myself to see.
Let us meet on weds with each having brought a Pas de deux:
1: entree - short introduction
2: adagio - slow movement (couple dance - the spoon)
3: variations (solo, one for each)
4: coda - all dancers appear
I believe that if we use this as a container for our shared source materials that the performance will unfold before us. That we will, as Lin and Matthew say “discover a performance by making it.”
Let me know what you think,
A
“dearest: if I told you I love this city, love the way it opens it’s dirty limbs to me, love the way it absorbs me without noticing me, love the way it gives rhythm to my walk, gives nuance to my skin, gives purpose to my plots, would you be jealous? I know you refuse to be jealous of people, but I wonder how you would feel if I swear my utter devotion to a place? Tonight, in the bedlam of my long return, after the delayed flight, after the snarled tunnel traffic, after losing the keys to my suitcase locks, I am reduced to making you jealous, wanting to make you miss me, wanting to make it harder for you to let me go. I know you want me to make it easier. Usually I do. But when you are there and I am here, it’s too easy for me to lose my place. I need to remind us both that before I found you I had a location, if not quite a life. I need to remember where and who I was so I can discover where and who we are. Like a dream, this map beckons me and eludes me. I try to remember it but even while I am writing it down, it floats up like dorothy’s balloon and washes me in vibrations of rumbling air.”
HUB 237.1:
Peggy Phelan, love’s geography
received as response to my impetuous… “but is this us? my cough, you catching me up as I keel over, or is it me keeling over in resistance of your catch, coughing as a result of exertion? new lovely books on pas de deux/partnering from library. will share more soon.”
