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of presence and attention, of noticing the unnoticeable, the almost invisible and very quiet and the potentiality for these to create a range of intensities, emergences and moving forces for knowing, relating and attending to the present moment. 

Intensities

of extreme force, degree or strength

composing directing conducting

extremely slow closed light weak

not yet it

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flour

The Body's Silent Conversation with Things. (Abram, 2017, p.49)

Choreography is a negotiation with the patterns your body is thinking.

(Burrows, 2010, p.27)

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Tracing

your body

whole

parts

other bodies

whole

parts

stone

if Being is being-with, then it is, in its

being-with, the "with" that constitutes Being; the with is not simply an addition.

(Nancy, 2000, p.30)

windows

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yawning
Feldenkrais

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Emergences

the process of coming into existence or prominence

following wandering listening

nudging

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sit get up

[...] a body is defined only by a longitude and a latitude: in other words the sum total of the material elements belonging to it under given relations of movement and rest, speed and slowness (longitude); the sum total of the intensive affects it is capable of at a given power or degree of potential (latitude). Nothing but affects and local movements, differential speeds. (Deleuze and Guatarri, 2004, p.304)

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string

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Something throws itself together in a moment as an event and a sensation; a something both animated and inhabitable. (Stewart, 2007, p.1)

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Moving forces

strength or energy as an attribute of physical action or movement; in motion

extending winding rewinding elongating spreading out flexing retracting

feeling five minutes and thirty six seconds in the tips of the fingers internal rhythm of thing+body knees and top of the feet sore 

how long is a piece of string?
repeat, repeat, repeat

Expanding

create space

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References

Abram, D. (2017) The spell of the sensuous: perception and language in a more-than-human world. New York: Vintage Books.

Burrows, J. (2010) A choreographer’s handbook. London: Routledge.

Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F. (2013) A thousand plateaus: capitalism and schizophrenia. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Nancy, J.-L. (2000) Being singular plural. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press (Meridian, crossing aesthetics).

Stewart, K. (2007) Ordinary affects. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

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