BROODWORK: It's About Time

              photo: Asuka Hisa
MAKING TIME
Ann Faison leads the adults in
breathing exercises to move them from
the defined space of the individual to
the open-ended experience of drawing.
The easiest, most direct way to shift
our experience (of time, of ourselves, of
our city) is to change our perspective.
One way is to shift our breathing.
Through breathing meditation, or
pranayama yoga, we concentrate our
minds on the breath and clear the
mind. We then get the gift of deep
connection to the self. When that
happens, time stops. We realize the
connectedness of all things. We have
made time.
Ilaan Egeland Mazzini and Carol
McDowell of Family Dance Jam
lead movement games and dance
explorations using an array of found and
repurposed materials to play; we freeze
time, expand space, shift direction and
change shape. We listen to our impulses
through simple warm-ups activities
readying ourselves to build community
dances together. To finish we devise prop
filled environments for open-ended fun.
MAPPING TIME
Architect Alla Kazovsky conducts a
creativity workshop, which utilizes
strategies of mind mapping with
collage to build current and ideal
scenarios. “The love of anything
is the fruit of our knowledge of
it, and it grows as our knowledge
deepens,” wrote Leonardo da Vinci.
This workshop is based on the
premise that the brain is equipped to
match the image with performance.
Through collage, participants learn a
technique of visualizing aspirations
and their impact. By investigating,
uncovering, and noting the origin
of interdependent relationships
(integrated systems) that make up
individual and collective reality, we
create a mind map for achieving what
we want.
Abira Ali, Katherine Coyle, Gordon
Henderson, and Lydia Vilppu of
Wisdom Arts Laboratory lead children
in the evolution of a tiny town that
encourages whimsical untraditional
interpretations of building surface,
and unusual figures to inhabit the
spaces that we create.
MARKING TIME
Participants are given the Four Rules
for Route-Making of Dan Koeppel’s
Big Parade and encouraged to create
communal itineraries of the great,
extended family that is their city.