THE CITY FROM A PLANT’S PERSPECTIVE: MAPPING NYC AS NATIVE FLORA CONEY ISLAND WALK / OCTOBER 5, 2007 / 5pm – 7pm Led by iLAB 2007 Residency: Lise Brenner (choreographer), Uli Lorimer (horticulture), Katrina Simon (landscape architect) Succession is the act or process of following in order or sequence. (Idea – movement development – dance piece) Biological dispersal = those processes by which a species maintains or expands the distribution of a population. Adaptations for dispersal take advantage of various forms of kinetic energy occurring naturally in the environment: water flow, wind, falling (response to gravity). Dispersal of organisms is a critical process for understanding both geographic isolation in evolution and the broad patterns of current geographic distributions. (Flow of concept/movement ideas through bodies, time, space = fracturing, reconstructing, deleting, adding, layering) Disturbance is a temporary change in average environmental conditions that causes a pronounced change in an ecosystem. Biological diversity is dependent on natural disturbance. (Production of randomness and chaos as necessary part of developing a dance) Site of iLAB 207 Coney Island Walk October 5, 2007 (Photo taken on the Coney Island Boardwalk)
Concept/ Hypothesis/ Theme
Alignment between concept and method
Method
Development Generative
What is the process of developing a new flavor? First, we need an idea. Then we experiment, just like my grandfather did. Finally, we keep tweaking the recipe until we think we have a winner. Quote from Alan Rosen, Owner of JUNIOR’S
TIME GIVES A MAP VERTICAL DEPTH