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Today we had a group of students in to witness the work and to have an opportunity to get some feetback from some of the work. We showed three different sections of the piece and they gave some initial responces to what they had just seen. They where very positive and impressed by the physicality and structure of the work. We will get them back in later in the process. It is great to have people in at different stages of the work, not just to hear their responces but also to get to perform the work very early on in the process. It gives a very different vibe when people are watching and it makes you perform instead of just rehearse.
We also worked in a new way today. I asked the dancers to discuss what would happen if they meet someone for the first time, how they would react, interact, behave, ... They came up with lists of words. Then they wrote a short scenario, journey, a list of events which they later on used to create a duet/situation. The material that came out of this was very different and had an interesting quality, a more pedestrian feel. It gave their bodies the chance to look at posture and intent.
Tomorrow we will continue with this and develop the idea's further.
Filip
Nottingham week 5
We have started our second part of the Antipode process in Nottingham based in the amazing theatre at the Djanogly Academie. I have started to look at the continuous journey and flow off the work. I put the whole music score of Joris into a timeline that for me at this moment in time seems to make sense dynamically, physically and structurally. There is a lot of work to be done but I feel excited about the progress made so far. At djanogly there is a great amount of space to watch the dance from a distance so it feels good to view the work differently and to be able to make changes from a different perspective. I am trying to create a piece that makes sense physically and that communicates some kind of journey and mood. As we are gradually piecing things together there is a feeling of something big but at the moment it is still in many fragments. Tomorrow I am starting three new ideas. First of all something slow between two men. The image in my head at the moment when two people from complete opposite parts of the world meet for the first time, what do they do, how do the react and interact? Another idea is about travelling around the globe and a third idea is about one man being taken on a journey by three other men.
All very exciting and next week our lighting designer Andy Hammond will join us for the first time so there will be more ideas, I am sure
Filip
Antipode video part two
One more starting point, a lot of dancing and phrases mixed and matched. I like the dynamic and the music is fab.
Antipode on video part one
This is a first idea for the beginning of Antipode. Still very much a starting point but with Joris on bass. The idea for the lighting is that there will be very little direct light but more dramatic light that moves around the space as if the dancers are scanned and caught by the light.
