Darren Notes on Book Task

Darren Book Task

What are Children for?

-3x more time is spent with children compared to 40 years ago

-Biological clock is ticking – women are not predetermined to breed, fear of being left behind, not fitting in with friends, growing old, growing lonely

Thinking back to ‘motherland’

I don’t understand being a man

Les Ballet C de B

‘Tempus Fugit’ Sidi Larbi Cherkani

Remember seeing this work in 2004. It was performed at the Avigion festival. The work looked highly contrasted process. Every part of it was meticulously thought out. RAW energy, danger, extreme and hard to do.

This stayed with me because I felt really engaged with how I could see myself performing like this.

The photos in the book are loaded images. Small details filter into the snap shots.

There’s a vibrancy and passion

Looks as if they are caught out, caught in the moment.

Catching a glimpse of the dance

















Page 2


Question 1

(What are Children for?)
The cover made me laugh and look twice at it, I hadn’t really looked at the other books and the ‘Motherland’

(Les Ballet)
It was thicker and more colourful, looked like it would contain pictures and I scanned more books before choosing this one

Question 2

(What are Children for?)
Started at the beginning and skimmed the pages. Than noticed some of the pages had been folded so I thought the interesting parts of the books had all ready been found.

(Les Ballets)
Flicked thought the pages and tried to take in the pictures than I saw the piece that I had seen before. Went to the begging and tried to read it but it was in French. Tried to find out more about the piece I had seen

Question 3

No real idea of the ending, starting at the beginning, all so taking snippets from the image etc to start the dance/reading

Question 4
(What are Children for?)
Very formal, taking out interesting facts

(Les Ballets)
Was more a feeling about what I had seen approach. Wrote about the photos and my response to that

After all that

The notion of randomly picking a page to open a book at
Revealing the I
Retrograding back to understand the question
Question about restricting yourself
What the body of the performer is going though can that be felt by the audience?

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