thoughts about becoming an instrument
written on Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
i am here in the middle of nowhere, a place in the german country site, that is very silent, no sound of traffic, no sounds of airplanes.
i just finished the first three performances of ”lost in space”with Frans. I have a lot of questions about how to go on with this project. It feels like we hit a break through into a different kind of making theatre, without being able to acknowledge the consequences of what we do at this moment. Time to digest things.
I get interested more and more in a very specific quality of performing. I want to investigate how i can use the body and the mind as an instrument, that is going to speak by itself towards the audience. When we place this instrument in a very specific situation , it will find the melody by itself. So when the mind get in tune with the environment, it will dictate different sensitivities of how our bodies can communicate with an audience.
It is like catching the weather conditions around us.
When i am serious in finding a non hierarchal way to be part of the world and the earth, i must find a same way to approach my own mind and my own body. The body is the most closest we can get in our relationship with nature, and at the same time our (observing) mind is also an inherent part of the nature.
at a residcncy in bröllin, somewhere north of berlin, total silence, large buildings, very cold