SCORE # 3: “Find a Choreographer “
by Nahelli Chavoya
Dancer, choreographer, poet, pursuing an Arts Practice PhD at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick.
VIDEO TO BE ADDED AS THE SCORE IS PERFOMED
TBA, performed by NN
Date. XX XX, 2025, Video documentation: The Artists.
Score by Nahelli Chavoya
A Thread of Scores #3 “Find a Choreographer” is to find its performer.
“For me, dance is about paying attention to the movement that we are, a movement intrinsically connected to every movement we perceive. Our bodies move from the same impulse that formed the stars, shaped the ground, stirred the ocean waves, and carried the shifting wind. When we perceive movement, are we not dancing through it? When we move, isn’t the space dancing through us? ” NC
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Nahelli Chavoya
Photo: Dafne Jassafeth
Performance
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Score
Find the choreographer
A walking score by Nahelli Chavoya
Hello, fellow walker. I want to invite you to discover the dancer within yourself and find new meanings for what dance can be. For this, you will find guidance from the space as a choreographer.
A choreographer can be thought of as a maker of dances, a weaver of movements, an initiator of body conversations. On this walk, feel free to interpret what a choreographer is in your own way. All answers are correct.
You can perform this score alone or in the company of other walkers, preferably outdoors on a path close to nature where you feel safe and free.
Remember, in the interpretation of this walking score, there are no wrong answers.
Also, these are not instructions, but merely suggestions. A score is only complete when you make it your own.
Part 1: Heartbeats
Before embarking on this walk, pause for a moment. Close your eyes.
Take three deep breaths, and continue breathing deeply until you can feel your heartbeat. It is a dancer, just like you are.
Take ten more breaths, and with each breath, feel your heartbeat growing louder and louder, resonating through every part of your body.
Begin walking to the rhythm of your heart.
Part 2: Find the choreographer
Walk for ten breaths.
Find a choreographer (what a choreographer is, is up to you; every answer is the correct answer).
Score Author
Nahelli Chavoya
Nahelli Chavoya is an interdisciplinary artist from Mexico, currently based in Ireland, where she is pursuing a PhD in Arts Practice at the University of Limerick. Her artistic practice includes installation art, written poetry, and dance. Her work is a practice of contemplation through movement, walks, and words. Central to her work is the exploration of rhythm, memory, and the ephemeral nature of existence. In 2023, she was an artist in residence at Björkö Konstnod (BKN), where she began creating Granite Dreams, a screen dance installation that is part of her PhD artistic research on the poetry of dance.Granite Dreams contemplates the rhythms of two locations, Björkö, Sweden, and the Slieve Blooms Mountains, Ireland, merging environmental and inner rhythms. During the residency, she met artist Rebekah Dean, who later invited her to create a site-specific performance at the Sculpture Trail The Sky is Moving Sideways in 2024. She created Arboreal, a meditative dance piece that reflects on life, death, and time through the perspectives of trees.
Reflection
Text pending from Nahelli about the experience of doing the score of Rebekah Dean.
Starting Point
“The Unfold – In Conversation” later known as “The Thread of Scores“. What if we hence having no funding just would move a head and share. The first three scores is a result of walking together. Walking as art form. We did this in the program WAP at BKN in 2023. As we make a Walking Score we hand over the act of doing to others. What is it that we hand over? How do we think about this act? What comes forward? Can we by the relay support each others practices and embark on grounds not treaded before in our practice? Can we facillitate the development of our own practice by doing a project with in another on? If we do so what happens?
The relay of performed walking score in its original edition will create 12 original walking scores by artist from various disciplines. The curatorial format asks one artist to hand over to the next artist and so on. In 1-3 months post the original performance the originator and performer meets to have a conversation about the score. The below listing unfolds as the relay develops. The concept forms a link between artists and initiates a conversation on walking scores and the experience of walking a score to open up a dialog on scores and on modes of production. We initiate this process by handing over the score to another artist to perform. However the idea of the score is not to be for that artist only but for others to also do.