Sunday 9 October 2022

Summer 2022 Timelapse

Usually, I like to my daily dances in different spots. Making dances and exploring new spaces is part of the fun. For some reason, I decided to do the opposite this summer. I chose one spot and danced there every day.  I got bored of dancing in the same spot and almost changed my plan at the one month mark. But, even though the mosquitoes were swarming every dance, I continued on in hopes of making a cool looking video. Speaking of video, at first there was a chair in this spot. It was an old plastic chair. I placed in a spot so I could use it as a camera stand for each day. A few days later the chair was missing. (It is a spot where people go to drink, I think... evidence of drinking is in the bush.) I found the chair but a leg was broken off. I found the leg and I balanced it back together. A few weeks later, the chair disappeared for real. I found some stones or rather broken flat broken pieces of cement. I stacked them on the log. My camera blew off that a few times. The chair was good because it had the back on it to prevent it from blowing over. I stacked the cement off the log and made a backing. That worked for a while. There was a run through this area - some sort of race and all my cement "bricks" were used to outline the path. I collected them and stacked them up again. All of this is to say, that my camera angle did not stay exactly the same as planned. I should probably invest in a proper tripod at some point.. but I like just having the Osmo pocket in my pocket, my headphones around my neck, and my phone in the other pocket. I don't want to have a whole bunch of stuff and make a big deal. I want to be ore ninja dancer. Stealth. 

Here is the video: 


Sea to Sky Dance Collective Summer 2022

 I spent my first summer in Squamish moving and grooving with The Sea to Sky Dance Collective. We performed at the Squamish Arts Festival and Into the Wild Festival. At first we met on Sunday evenings, then we met on Mondays, and in August we added extra rehearsals on Thursday evenings. I got to help make some choreography and lead a class which was fun. The best part was making new dance friends. I look forward to moving and grooving with this crew again and I am thankful and grateful for having them welcome me into the dance family. 

Squamish Chief