Examination, part 1
I revisited what I did when I worked with theatre, it’s been over ten years, since then I realised it was not theatre I did. I was in some sort of conflict with the genre, but unwillingly, I just wanted to do what I wanted to do, I wasn’t trying to do something new with theatre as form per se - that never occurred to me.
I just do the same things I always do with some variations, as those familiar with my work for the stage can see in these pictures. So I am doing the same kind of work but I am re-framing it as simply ART, art for the stage or performance art. In this context,I am free to work with authencity rather than story. With starting points very different from theatre, and above all, free from genre-thinking.
With these magical performers in addition of my daughter I did a piece called ATLAS. It is about the relationship between grown-ups and children and about love in the anthropocene. I am so grateful for this education, at Uniarts, a one year program for professional artists, dancers, actors, writers. I’m reconnecting. It’s crystal clear.
Life/Work: Work from the present and the past, as well as new texts, reflections and recurrent themes.
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