Last week expandance co-founder Laurie Keegan undertook a workshop entitled "Writing As Choreography" with UK based dance artist Alexandrina Hemsley, hosted by Dance Ireland. What follows is one of the poems to come out of that workshop, written by Laurie.
An Ekphrastic poem inspired by the experience of watching
‘Barely a Person’
choreographed and performed by Rachel Wynne
Eyes draw down fill up
Swaying
Off the roll away shadow and pause.
Miss her.
You follow hollow curl, curl, curl
Pause.
It circles, uncurls, curls
Interrupt. Voice remembered.
Vulnerable. Holding on scared
Shadows and light
Cry
I feel tears and then she looks away
Strength, texture, forms. Don't forget.
I won’t forget
I remember with you
I hear you
We all not have forgotten, I.
She Baby emotes
Why can’t we. guilt
Shame,
Shameful,
Shame on them,
No more Silence.
Shouldertightheldbreath
Cold floor only we feel
reel
real
Reel
Need soup, sup, soupy, supping
Enough
Not enough
I love you
Roll through the floor
Keeping me grounded
I have the thigh and apathy it’s me
Vault of power
Power
Power
Pulse, prep, pulse, prep
Rest Rachel
Surrounded by your weight I feel you down to me
Lengthen
Stretch and light, all light
Volume, hall it at the sing back
Strut it on to the back room
Reach grab
Hold
Grip pelvis Relevé
We can’t be unshielded
Eyes be light
I Love You
You are everything and more much more
HOLY SHIT
HOLY SHIT I love you.
