The Space Between Separates and Connects

In the Flesh, In the Ether, Across the Ocean

We are not limited to any medium
Not to written words
Or spoken words
Nor to music
Or the dance

We sculpt Time and Space
Always and Everywhere
In the flesh
In the ether
Across the ocean

We are improvisors
We listen and respond
To the necessity of the moment.




(a new poem to an old photograph)

Improvised Piano Duet

Christophe Delerce and Liz Roncka

If You Want to Learn to Improvise, Study with a Cat

Here's an improvised quartet I made with my cats today.  They notice all the golden opportunities and take them, unapologetically.  Obviously, I have more to learn.

"Take the space of this time and place...."

As I said, the medium keeps changing.  Here's an improvisation I did with words on April 5:


Take the space of this time and place.  Forget the past and future.  Again and again.  Useless traps that halt your breath.  Go on.  Don't stop.  Flow forth and forward.  Holding only caused an early death.  Pull all the stops, they're broken anyway.  Push on.  Find the truth of "in between".   In between is all.  There is no here or there.  By the time you know the beginning and the end, the story is already over.

I can tell you this.   You may not understand, but if I tell you That to try to understand This, I've already misrepresented it and myself.  This speed is necessary.  Slower or faster is false advertising, a bastardization of the authentic velocity that is necessary to see things in the proper perspective.

That moment there, when it seemed the lights flickered, was the moment you lost me.  Now it's just you wondering exactly what happened when the lights went out.... and everything changed.

There isn't a moment to pull back, to pull out, that isn't too late.  No pause or replay without perverting all that was revealed.  Later, all is just a memory... the Now of the Then, but certainly not the Now of the Now.  

Just take it as it comes, in its most perfect form.  Let Desire and Fear be unto themselves, no need to stick them and mesh them with that which they are not.  Keep yourself free as well, it's the only way You Are.

Simplicity and Clarity

Christophe Delerce and Liz Roncka


There are two things that I particularly appreciate about this excerpt:

1)  The clarity of our timing.  This has been the focus of my improvisation class lately and it certainly came through here.  I often think that as movers, we are inclined to prioritize Space over Time.  In my own practice and in my teaching, I emphasize the importance of sculpting time as well. This is not the exclusive job of the music or the musician, but the mover must also accept this responsibility.

2)  Simplicity.  We make very simple and clear choices both in Time and in Space.  I feel there is often a strong drive to do more/move more/play more and to be complex in what we do.  Whenever I stop and watch from the outside, I am reminded of the power of Simplicity.

It has been nearly a year since I have posted in my blog.  When inspiration comes, I take it, so here I am.

My blog is just over 6 years old.  I should not let it die now, now should I?  And how much does it take to keep it alive??   Well, here is just one puff of air.

Today I thought this, wrote this when asking myself "why":

"The process, the practice is constant. The medium keeps changing. There are fewer projects as I am absorbed in the continuum. It's everything, all of the time. To break it down into pieces and parts with names and descriptions feels like a disruption of the flow."

I originally started blogging during my "Dance-a-day" project in which I made a dance improvisation every day and posted it on my blog.  After around 113 days, I stopped.  I decided to keep the blog even after the project.  Over the years, I have made entries less and less.  However, a catalog of my work does not exist anywhere.  While this blog is absolutely incomplete, it probably offers more in one place than any other source of my "artistic" work.  I really don't like this word "artistic" and quite frankly, I don't like the word "art" anymore, but ..... fuck that, for now.

So, lots of art has been made since my last entry in April 2014.  Perhaps I will share some of that work now or perhaps we will just allow for this gap.