Requiem 2

Day 24
FRIDAY 24TH AUGUST PORTUGAL



For some reason we want to write a requiem together
Maybe it’s the environment
Maybe a response to working in church buildings – Moving East, the Convento.
Maybe its because I mentioned making The Last Dance on the first day of this RandD

Maybe its because we have had enough of dancing

Common theme of requiems is the prayer for the salvation of the soul(s) of the departed, and it is used both at services immediately preceding a burial, and on occasions of more general remembrance.

Eg A requiem in 7 movements:
Kyrie (D minor)
Offertoire (B minor)
Sanctus (E-flat major)
Pie Jesu (B-flat major)
Agnus Dei et Lux Aeterna (F major)
Libera Me (D minor)
In Paradisum (D major)

Using the 5 weeks of R&D as a source we remembered images sounds and thoughts from wat we had shared together then each took a week and sculpted a sound track out of the fragments

Week 1
Bowing on entering the space
I just wanted to do bodywork
Working through emotional catharsis is old fashioned
Self portraits
Sun in the face
Apologising naked
Tango
Saying No
Peter Brook – first day getting you through top the second
Motherland
Stand Up
No more leading
7 people
New beginning
Old habits
Talking
Being on the outside

Week 2
Leah smiling
Ellie’s chair task – rhythm
An hours sleeping
Coffee bar on the corner
Loading the van
Cancelled show
Sitting in the park
JO hugging Nom
Leah’s Mummy Mummy
Sleeping exercise and fidgeting
Going to the house with Alex and Rachel
Confusion – middle of I have no idea what you are talking about
Provocateur - adjusting to the set up – the way I talk - semantic wars
What if I had 100 mums and dads
Wendy’s text logging from Vienna – no revisiting
Frameworks hard and fast in place
Gather around to have a discussion
Text – publicity quotes – hard sell
Leahs scales
More music in the space
Roles Leader Documenter Chair Dramaturg


Week 3
Lack of content
Emphasis on Pauses
Chaos
Lack of humour
Dysfunction
Boredom
Misunderstandings
Conflict
Something emotionally ungainly
Doing what you fancy
Reading remainder
Charlotte Crying
Feeing things up
Not getting it
Alex longblog
Feeling lonely for the first tome
Waves sea cloudless sky warm sand
Sliding finger on the dance floor with Scott Talking counting poses
Recording of conversations
Spinning and delivering
Tired of using words to describe what doesn’t need to be described
Misunderstanding of personal intention
Free to be tied up any old way you want
Darren is it lunch yet?
Ruth’s legacy overturned

Week 4
Lindsey’s tragic face almost always crying
I just want to be post modern
Roly poly Scott
Theatrical Failures
Liz and me in the corner
Boundary your space
You can’t always get what you want
We look like Forced Entertainment
It was tedious – when we work like this it always ends up the same
Suspended frames x 10 Eva Bitova
Lighting the space
The silent task
Vals song Ilcialo in una stanza
Lindsey sitting still
Reenacting the tasks
Fuck You
You Pussy
Darren absence
Scott shining lights on people
Chalk on the wall
Smoking invisible cigarettes
Am I allowed to lie on someone’s lap
Drawing big genitals on the floor
Feeling attraction for Scott / Oracle
Darren wanting to lick my pussy
Chalk falling on the guitar
Black space Chalk
Boys changing room
Silent guitar man
Liz – talking about finding his own choreographic voice
Glen Gould
Got the money for next year
Pictures

Week 5
Playing the house
Scott looking deeply into PK
’s eyes and PK obviously melting
Me screaming whenever Alex hid in a doorway
Not having any time to stop – breathless schedule
Board meeting
Marketing meeting
Office meeting
Electrical cables
Listening
3+1
Rock and Roll pad
Old habits come in handy – familiar understanding
Houseconcert
Working nights and sleeping days
Musical Meisner
Vanda my dog
No loops
Alex on the floor hugging an accordian
Orange wood cables Dolphin
Rehearsals Boredom lack of ideas