Patrycja - After Portugal

7 weeks divided into fazes. Different places on the map of Europe, different places on the map of mind, different places on the map of sound.
Balance between clarity and confusion.
Measuring profits.
Singular measure, singular image, singular sound measure.
Developing consciousness of singularity.

Silent mentors.( Thank God they exist!)

Incredible, overwhelming power of TALKING.
I am ready to DO again.
To filter important words from pretentious bullshit.

I am stilling from Scott “to organise yourself” and “survival”.
(got the feeling that sometimes half of energy simply goes to organising yourself in the situation you are in)
It s all about survival.
It’s about rebel as well.

Lesson of patience.

Simple joyful moments of sonic games.
Moments when music is the main essence of action, not only an accompaniment.
Blured border between “real” musicians and the others.
The musical potential of shitty casio keyboard, wooden ikea box, piece of paper…etc.(nothing new, but still… entertaining)

Reluctance of dancing, “throwing shapes”.
Rather still pictures, soaked in sound and silence.

Workshop about conceptualism, form, picture, structure, building, deconstructing, stripping of.
Trying to store everything I’ve witnessed in my brain safely, so I can use it (OR NOT) in the future.

Useful laboratory.
But after laboratory I have a big appetite to take part in some sort of loud and colourful project with costumes, outrageous wigs and faked moustaches , full bodied characters and big, fat, narrative story in it, and loads of messy props …and a harp…or something…frivolous like thatJ

(I guess I am not exactly a “theatre purist”)

P.K

Darren - Final blog

Well what an interesting six weeks it has been for me. I started feeling lost, unsure and coming out at the other end musicalised, not dancing as much and to be honest very surprised were I ended.

The two-weeks in Portugal were more refined then the weeks in London. There was less talking and more doing. Picking up different threads from the previous weeks and trying things out. It seemed liked we did loads. Different ideas for tasks each day. Although the overall theme of musicalising the dancers, was present throughout the two weeks.

During these tasks many of the things we talked about, like making choices explicit, were extremely evident in the tasks we were doing. There was a real time delay, the performer felt like they were in real time dealing with the problems that faced them.

It was great to be able to work with Charlotte directing the task (yet it was free in the sense that we could offer suggestion) and having Val and Janusz we were allowed to look at things that interested us.

The final two days were enactments of previous task we had done over the past few weeks. It felt like there was something in that. From a theatrical point of view and all so from a performative perspective. I would be happy doing some of the things we did on stage in front of an audience.

One could never of guessed where we would end but finally reaching the end it, felt like the most natural thing... like we always kind of knew but had to go through the previous four weeks to get there. Pause (count 6)


I think I might take this moment to thank every one who was part of this. I look forward to the next meeting of the 'super group'.


I could sing a song for you instead or I could end this blog right now.

Darren