Adrienne Adrienne

Another version

First try at final cut pro

This was fun. Star bellies.

A sketch from my journal

I made this sketch a few weeks ago, as I tried to map and to envision how my shadow and the shadow of the blocks would interact with the projections....

Some new sound trial for a new piece

I really just wish to share this sound idea, and to hear your comments if you have any. But, I can't figure out how to share an audio file. So, I've put it up here together with a vacation video from last year. It may be oddly appropriate to my theme, having to do with collection and enumeration (places you've visited...), but truthfully it will probably be confusing if you watch it. So, just listen...

Fall Dance Gathering Salon performance

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Created and performed by Adrienne Westwood

Ok, I'm finally getting there. I'd love to hear your comments.

Still in progress: showings from mid-semester critique and my try at a sound score

Not really ready to view yet, but go ahead if your name is Seth

Another animation and a silly one too

another animation

and a silly one

Animation trials 1[c] and 1[d]

1[c] in silence:

1[d] with music:

Here are some textures and drawings from CAP on 9/17

Here's another animation

Kissa and bike

Here's an animation

This will come in handy when making my film of my blocks.

For now, here I am. As photographed by Katie.

Premise

I will build a toy city, then occupy it as my reality.

I enter the space with a box:

In real time, I take blocks out of the box and start to build. A home and then a village, a train and tracks that run into the city, the city itself and the tracks out of the city into the country and, last, a plain simple block, a period. Along the way some bad weather complicates things: water and wind from a little toy fan provide a storm for the train, some show falls on the countryside at the end. This is a precisely choreographed building process, musical and deliberate. It is lit intimately, and performed in close proximity to the audience, so that viewers become focused on/immersed in this little world:

Then the space opens up. Upon the back wall we see this building project begin again, my self-made world now my life-size world. The stop-motion film of the building process behind me will allow me to move "through" the world. I will rest under a tree, travel along with the train, become drenched by the rain and blown over by the wind....

Scale will be important. So will purposeful use or non-use of shadow. I am not sure whether it will be my shadow or my real body that will move in the same scale as the blocks projected behind me. I hope that finding a certain abstraction to my movement performance will allow shape and associations of my movement and the setting to be more dominant than any sort of "acting." I will end the journey lying in my grave, the last little block becoming my headstone.

Blackout.

My choreography is still Top Secret, but here's an arabesque on a bike and a praying mantis in the window: