Center of Gravity - Card installation
Center of Gravity - Card installation
6”x 4” Cards, 2022, Maho Ogawa
This is a choreography in the form of text instruction written on the card format, displayed facing four different directions on the pedestal to be enacted by multiple bodies.
Each card has different movement instructions from the Minimum Movement Catalog: Center of Gravity.
The movement instructions are enacted by viewers alone or with other people in space, in their minds or on bodies. Also, this work can be presented as a performance with audience participation as a community ritual.
Try this movement catalog
Center of Gravity 2
Close your eyes for 5 secs, then open.
Shift your weight forward on your toes,
Then back to your heels.
Feel the back and forth movement of the
Center of Gravity on your body.
Try doing this in synch with your neighbors.
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Center of Gravity 3
Close your eyes for 5 secs, then open.
Pour your weight on your right foot,
Then on left foot.
Feel the side to side movement of the
Center of Gravity on your body.
Try doing this in synch with your neighbors.
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Center of Gravity 4
Close your eyes for 5 secs, then open.
Slowly rotate your head to clockwise,
To feel the rotation of the
Center of Gravity on your body.
Try the other direction with your head.
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Center of Gravity 17
Close your eyes for 5 secs, then open.
Raise your arm(s) overhead,
and move it(them) back and forth.
Feel the movement of the
Center of Gravity on your body.
Try side to side and circles with your arm(s).
Do this in synch with your neighbors.
photo and video by Alyssa Soethout