Practice Notes

Photo by Adam Mützelburg. Carolyn Eccles, Josh Freedman and Ryuichi Fujimura perform 31 Oct 2025 at The Church in Alexandria NSW.

Chronology Arts has an artistic collective that brings people together from diverse backgrounds and training in performing arts. Part of the collective’s practice includes spaces of peer learning and support in both formal/facilitated contexts as well as casual contexts. In relatively short periods of time,

We have experienced growth from the coalescence of our cultures and artistic practices.

The collective began its group training in October last year. In order to find a base-line relationality between us that is nurturing, safe and conducive to our shared values, our focus has been in these 5 areas;

1)       Sensitivity and Awareness (embodied, environment, relational, internal, etc)

2)       Experiencing Time (whilst creating/performing, whilst observing/experiencing)

3)       Feedback Methodology (personal practice, collective practice)

4)       Roles and Needs within Interdisciplinary Co-Creativity (composition and safety)

5)       Access and Inclusion (neuro-, socioeconomic-, cultural- and age- diversity)

We’ve recently worked with an extension of “Authentic Movement” (Mary Whitehouse). Authentic Movement involves a “mover” with their eyes closed moving to their impulses in silence. There is a “minder” ensuring they don’t dance into anyone or anything else. It can be done for periods of 5 mins, but I’ve experienced it for 1 hour.

The extensions to this practice we’ve introduced include having a “scribe” write down what they “see” (and “see” can be interpreted as physical, sonic, conceptual, associative, energetic, spiritual; anything really), and the “minder” extends their role to be supportively performative whilst continuing to hold the safety of the “mover”. The “mover” and “minder” may also sound (sing, chant, gasp, sigh etc). There are many benefits to exploring how to follow impulse, how we can be perceived, how to hold safety during performance, how to support another whilst they are in a deep state.