Grafting

Synonyms
= enten (Dutch)
= to propagate
= to affix

Grafting

Description
Grafting is the practice of joining two plants together. By making a small incision in the root of one plant, you can connect a branch to the root. If everything goes right the root and branch are able to merge together and grow as one.

Metaphors
= marriage
= (forced) rite of passage
= organ transplant
--- sonnet 18 Shakespeare

Can two languages exist next to each other?
By giving words to a feeling, you create a (sense of a) litteral answer

Grafting my own practice

Grafting my own practice

New branch
 What kind of poetry
 Which branch of poetry
 What are the specifics
o No matter how vague it is, it will always reach someone in a way
o In what capacity can I apply this on dance
o How hard do they differ
 What do I want to learn
o Overanalysing
o Vagueness doesn't force to overanalyse
o Not a 'logic' language
o When to translate
o What does endrhyme look like in dance?

Rootstock
Certain kind of questions
-> Philosophical
-----> How do I answer these?
----------> Trying to answer/understand them in movement
---------------> What qualities?
---------------> Way of moving that fits the (feeling of the) question
---------------> Own language
---------------> Experience over storyline
---------------> Literate in question
---------------> Question is Centerpoint
---------------> What is my rol as a maker
---------------------> Researcher to own opinion

- Litteral, concrete start, vague ending
- You cannot understand the question
- Starting with an answer ending with a question