GLOSSARY
GROUP : PART : Component Action
SYSTEMS
TIME/SPACE
Score
Notation for sequencing and movement for performance and live printmaking
Choreograph
Sequencing a visual composition or performance
Notate
Making marks that make up a visual language of instruction
Move
A transition using multiple stages. Change in procedure
Map
Plotting a position in relation to the group to form a pattern
Grid-up
Framing action in sequence
Group
Arranging a visual composition with the same components in print – translated into performance
PROP
Frame
Division device for sequencing a visual composition or performance
Gate Using an object to create printed marks that make up a visual language of instruction indicating what is possible in performance i.e. ‘open’ and ‘closed’, ‘flow’ and ‘scrape’.
PLAY
Position
Set-play visual arrangement of a composition. In movement: performers split into teams relating through colours
COMMUNICATION
SPEECH/TEXT
Speak
Voice instructions or actions
Embody
Combining object/letter and body to create textual tableaux
Script
Capturing live printmaking and performance in a time based medium using writing movement and tools
Write
Movement to make script-likes marks using a stylus
List
Stacking script-like marks
Announce
Using letterforms to attention seek and communicate
INSTRUCTION
Instruct
Direction to act out rehearsed and scored actions
Wait
Static situation pending the resumption of a print or performative action
RELATIONSHIP
Connect
Communication between two or more bodies or objects (duet/quartet etc.)
Mirror
Doubling space and creating reversals
Split
Duet with mirroring. In movement: performers split into teams relating through colours
Translate
Creating a printed mark as an interpretation of a spoken word
BODY
MOVEMENT / LABOUR
Scrape
Using a tool to scrape into a wash of ink removing it to cause a track mark (related to ‘track’)
Track Applying physical force such as pressing combined with movement such as scraping to make an imprint: a state of motion made visible in the print
Brush
Using a brush to create a wash or ‘script mark in a monotype (related to ‘flow’) or transferring ink by rubbing across surfaces
Press
Using the body or object to make contact and mark the paper or disrupt another object or the space
Rub
Applying physical force such as pressing to make an imprint
Work
Applying physical force as an act of labour in performance and print
Play
Performing teamwork in order to explore work-play connections
Repeat
Action taken again and again in movement and impression
Machine-like
printed impression or action reproduced, repeated, distributed rhythmically and regularly
Flow
Organic mark-making using the body in a central way e.g. ‘wash’ created by the arm/ brush
TRACE
Transfer
language reproduced, repeated, distributed using printed impression (pressure and ink)
Ghost
print ‘noise’: secondary marks created after transfer from original to impression accumulating from successive layers
Document
Capturing live printmaking and performance in a time-based medium
EXPRESSION
Gesture
Utilizing forceful mark-making and action
Point
Using a printed mark or body to indicate selection or direction