Movement researcher, educator, artist
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The Thread: Getting started

Hi! Welcome!

Visit this page to read updates, gather weekly prompts and access the Padlet boards.—Stay tuned!

 

THIS IS AN INVITATION TO ACTIVATE YOUR IMAGINATION!

WHAT YOU MAKE IN THIS PROCESS, WILL BE MATERIAL FOR AN ONLINE ART SHOW—PARTICIPATION IN THE SHOW IS VOLUNTARY


We will use Padlet boards as our main shared space to share our art and connect with each other. Our Padlet boards are password protected. You will get the password after you register and attend our introduction meeting. Contact Catalina at chernan@illinois.edu if you have problems with the password.

 

IN PADLET WE WILL HAVE:

  • A Main Board for you to post free reflections

  • Weekly Boards with new prompts each time. You will find the prompts and the link to the board IN THIS PAGE.

 
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To post in Padlet:

 
 
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  • Each FRIDAY, I will post a question and a prompt to explore that question together, through different art experiments.

  • You can post your contributions and respond to others’ any time of the week—and even after the week has passed.

  • Every week I will hold synchronous gathering time to hang out, move, and chat about the experience: these are OPTIONAL, but suggested. Gatherings* are Mondays, 5pm. (these days/times are subject to change)

 
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Main Board

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The Main Board in Padlet, will be the space for you to share open reflections, thoughts… You can add free versions of your art. I will also share questions, thoughts, and invitations. STAY TUNED!

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QR Code to Main board.

The digital images and videos illustrating these prompts were made by Mary Kate Ford

 

Invitation /Score 1: Join the space

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How do you want to join this space?

What version(s) of yourself do you want to bring forward? Participate in your own terms

 
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Join the space in your own terms

Prompt:

Make handwritten statement beginning with: I like;  I love; I am loved by; I’d rather not; I’m good at. (Take a picture and post it at padlet)

Offering:

Take time to witness people’s statements. Support or echo their statements by sharing a thought, or an image. Handwrite/Hand-draw this offering


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For the week

Reflect and revisit your way of walking (practice it for 3 minutes, paying attention to each gesture) Can you generate a “tutorial” to follow your steps? (Video or text) –Upload the tutorial

Offering:

Use someone’s tutorial to walk through the favorite part of the place where you live.

Record, upload, send a short note


 

Score 2: Where are you / What who is close to you?

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Share a real/fictional version of “the place where you are”

Use video and take “us” on a walk through that version of the place, showing “us” only your favorite objects and details of the place where you are. Tell us a story about your selected path using your voice or a short text at padlet

Offering: Witness others’ places. Find points of connection of their selected paths with yours with your selected path. Leave images/notes to others to share the connections you drew.

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QR BOARD WEEK2

 

Score 3: What bodies are part of our daily lives? Which gestures/movements keep us connected with loved ones?

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Inhabit gestures of loved ones…

Think of a characteristic gesture/movement of a loved one. Study that gesture in your body. Inhabit it. Make it into a micro-dance of 30 seconds to 1 minute long.  Record it. Tell a short story about this person and this gesture: how does this gesture speak about you? Your history?

Offering: Witness the board with gestures of loved ones. Read the stories that live with the gestures. Learn one or more gesture micro-dances. Record it and post it to “echo” and support it.

QR CODE, WEEK 3

QR CODE, WEEK 3