Set up your house of cards and care for it quietly

/

Witness an other. Stay close to and outside of them. Use them as a tether to time.
Acknowledgment as accountability.
The reflex for intimacy. An undercurrent.

Interface with the reflections of you. Wait for them to dissolve and reappear, dissolve and reappear.
Tack your ideals to a soft surface. Watch the surface be imprinted and eventually swallow them whole.
Build a fixed image. Carry this on your person.

Begin the process of encapsulation. Do you include yourself?
Reinforcing while unravelling.
Glass shovels in all parts of you excavating the things that sit below your surface.
Dig, decolonize, and pause.
It’s all work.

Are you a citizen of your body?

Transmit telepathic secrets to yourself. Whisper them to the shallow crevasses of you.
Tie down the ephemeral and ask its name. Watch the concrete fly away and evaporate.
Make a decision to give something meaning. Try this for a while and manifest anew.
Join yourself half-heartedly to something in sight.
Reward good behaviour.

Action vs. anything/everything else.
A difference that puddles and grows.
Tip between the two. Be In flux.

Choose something to carry alongside you.
Choose something to carry until the end.

//

Unlock Most Things. Undo whatever is left.
Amorphous and still becoming, coalesce all sensations.

Ghost body.
Sheer body.
Faceless Performer.

Anticipate the momentum of you.
Spread yourself wide.
De/construct and tangle the world with you.

Let a single impetus carry you. Float along this way for a while.
Find a pace that is all your own.
Breath, a gentle hammer.

Trace the thin layer of oil between you and the earth below.
Slip and slide.

To be a happy hostage to your container.

Find stasis and hold its weight.
You are total.
Retrieve a kinaesthetic memory of you.
Introduce yourself.

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Dance is fluid and stubborn and swimming inside me

Avery Smith lives and makes on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tseil-Waututh First Nations of Vancouver, BC. Avery uses her practice to explore differing gradients of effort and ease. She’s interested in subverting ratios of structure and freedom within physical tasks, creative processes, and already existing dance infrastructure: averymsmith.com