"A strong majority of participants endorsed experiences consistent with mindfulness (i.e., feeling “more present in my body”; 99% of the sample) and psychological flow (“I felt like I was ‘in the zone’ or ‘in the flow’ of things”; 93% of the sample) during conscious dance"
- Laird et al, 2021

3-8
Is distance important?







How many footsteps is it?

Not really. Maybe? I envisioned the work as being more about time, but I’m still struggling to define that. Distance has become important in relation to topology, and mapping the space. I know how any footsteps it is.


Ok, I don’t remember. I have it written down. It was in the 100s.

29-39


Scales of time.











Like a drive-in cinema?




Delightfully meta.

Sorry. Where were we?


Right. So the next question is: how long should I dance for? I wanted the duration to be out of the ordinary. I’m interested in ritual and the work being an act, action, rather than a performance. So I established that it should take place over days, consecutive days. I flirted with 30 minutes each day. It took 31 minutes for cars to exit from the Burwood Skyline drive-in, but that felt-


Yes, stop interrupting. You’re me, so you know everything I do. You’re just a poetic device!


I know! Do go easy on the compliments though; our ego ought to be kept in check.

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Chair Jazz
Hopscotch
Vertical rolling
Wind
Silt
Magpie
Creek
SLOW DOWN

Circles and curves
Triangles
Stump balance
Oblivious non-audience
Silurian sediment
Melt
Metamorphose
Pelvis needle

Wind
Diamonds
Long gap
Circles, different planes
Rock climbing
Small strokes
River
Tree communion
Scalp
Siren

Speeds: bicycle, high heels, traffic lights
Hyper-focus
Vertical rolls
"I'm glad you're happy"
"I'm glad you're not in the city"
Calm down - return to creek
'Rockscotch'
Ssssss
Echidna hobble
Copying twigs

Kites
Rock holes
Vertical rolls
Point of attention
Vibrations
Underground
Black gunk
Out of control
Tiny

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68 footsteps travelled

111 footsteps travelled

140 footsteps travelled

195 footsteps travelled

238 footsteps travelled

"A common topic of conversation for David and older residents involves nostalgic recollections of how Footscray ‘used to be’, and David, as a local of 20 years, is able to participate in and instigate these types of conversations and stories, anchoring him more firmly as a ‘resident’."
- Carr, 2020

Since 2019, Jonathan Sinatra has been performing a 'daily dance' every day. They can be seen by pasting the following link into the address bar:
https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=Jonathan+Sinatra+Instagram

Vionnet (2020) asserts that the distinction between everyday actions and rituals is not anchored to repetition in time or space, but to attentional investment of the participants.