cool things (pablo)
today’s practice was very beautiful. it had it’s moments, some better, some less better, of course, but all in all it was quite amazing to see you guys stay in the work for such a long frame. your concentration and the liveliness of your decision making + seeing the space are very interesting materials in themselves.
the run was a bit messy, and I’m sorry for that. but I am anyways quite confident that this new structure will work well. there is a complex issue of timing, which is essential for the piece to work, but which is not about cueing and cool timing together. I think it is difficult because there needs to be two quite autonomous tracks (the 4 people on one, Stephie and the TLs in the other), both with specific timing needs that need to be overlapped but not logically connected. I mean that the timing of one track should not affect the other (it is in that sense that I mean there is no cueing), but they do need to sort of complement each other… wow, come to think about it, maybe there is where the polyphony really appears: it’s not a harmonic construction of ‘chords’ on top of a melodic line (such as, the TLs accompanying the dances) but rather 2 lines evolving on their own, yet articulated in their cohabitation of the space. and this articulation, I think, is the thinking of their timings in relation to each other.
Stephie’s role seems a lot more clear now (Lotte also observed that), in spite of how complicated it was to rehearse it today. I like it a lot to see her much more integrated into the group and again, though in a completely different track, she belongs clearly to the ‘performers’. it works much better to have her cross the space, go through the group and relate to the space in a similar way (through the use of the eyes). her task(s) are still much more reduced than the group’s, and her choreography is independent from theirs, but now it looks very natural that she would share their performativity.
I am getting excited… and though it’s not so easy to know what and how to rehearse from here, I think the perspective is very good. I had the feeling today that sometimes the work before the run is too exhausting, but it also seems to clarify and enhance some senses. in any case we don’t have so much time left. we will probably be running it more in the next few days.
prepare yourselves for some jumping…
