The last Mathilde performance I had been able to take part in, was at the Moor Festival August 2010. Feeling like I had to rediscover my 'inner improviser' it was with a bit of anticipation and extra awareness that I went in to the SARSVL birthday party performance on Friday 8 april 2011. We spent a few sunny hours of 'togetherness' in the studio on that Friday afternoon. In my experience, to dance and move in an improvised performance requires enormous amounts of trust between the people involved. It is of course vital as a safety precaution to know that you wont be dropped on the floor in the heat of the moment or your instrument thrown haphazardly in the air but it is indeed also being able to trust someone to support and facilitate your artistic ideas and to 'save' you if the idea has worn out. So for me the warm up on the day is there for tuning back in to eachother's rhythm and pace and feeling moods and dynamics in order to reestablish the trust and 'togetherness'.
Perhaps it was the hours spend in the studio, perhaps it was a good audience or perhaps just coincidence but it felt like quite a solid and confident performance. There was awareness and timing and as we discussed in our 'de-brief' immediately after, we were calm and collected -literally collected- giving each other space to explore relationships and enjoying stilnesses. It felt like the need to please the audience had decreased, perhaps resulting in fewer deliberate moments of obvious entertainment value. I think we are beginning to trust that just doing is enough -there is no need to try.
by Marie
Perhaps it was the hours spend in the studio, perhaps it was a good audience or perhaps just coincidence but it felt like quite a solid and confident performance. There was awareness and timing and as we discussed in our 'de-brief' immediately after, we were calm and collected -literally collected- giving each other space to explore relationships and enjoying stilnesses. It felt like the need to please the audience had decreased, perhaps resulting in fewer deliberate moments of obvious entertainment value. I think we are beginning to trust that just doing is enough -there is no need to try.
by Marie