Hayley Izzard

I feel my practise has significantly changed, especially in this past month. I feel experiential anatomy has played a huge part in development; as working with surface, alternating perceptions, (seeing out and internal awareness) yielding and yield and push/reach and pull have all been contributing factors. The imagery of the digestive tract has been an interesting source for me to work with. To move with this awareness I feel, even in the moving of the simplest of tasks, has allowed me to see my movement open up and soften, even elongate and be allowed to breathe. The imagery of the mouth has been another interesting one, in terms of I've heard others say they struggle to connect with this stimulus but, in my own moving, I found a way to use it where it was another initiation point for me and I noticed a different quality to my moving, which allowed me to experiment with weight. Weight is one thing this month that I feel I've played with; my one goal has been from the star...

I found Dianne Madden an interesting choice after looking through some artists; her style is exploratory with weight and 'powering through the floor', With very specific and particular focus to establishing articulation and connection through the joints. Reason I found her interesting is I felt I could relate to her techniques, especially with exploratory of weight as that is an awareness I keep with me in my practice. She uses mainly Improvisation, as her tool to hone time and space perception and integrate with deepened movement awareness. She explores a special interest in spacial specificity, combining compositional tasks and using phrase material from Locus (1975) and Opal Loop (1980) to teach spatial specificity and to broaden movement quality. Improvisation is added to the mix to keep the ideas ongoing and endless; new everytime.