Roberto took over the general direction of "Alice baila"; my role is to continue with the development and polishing of the choreography as well taking care for the spacial composition of the play. On this last rehearsal, the group worked on characterization of their personages based on and using the choreography and individual movement material developed in my workshop.
I haven't seem them on such a high level before and I was wondering what's the matter. Is it because Roberto yells and demands more on them than me? Or is it because they came back to the text of the play, means, something they know very well, can rely on and feel confident about... so feel more free to explore. We discussed it and everybody agreed that it is thanks to the dance workshop they achieved new level of plasticity and more physical awareness. The doubts or lack of confidence in our previous “dance” rehearsals was caused by the insecurity of using abstract, new language of contemporary dance. Now, after the public show of work-in-progress, which went good and brought us to next level, they open up and with trust, as well with clearer vision or feeling about dance-theater gender, they are eager to engage deeper.
One more observation: yesterday by chance, we had no music/no cd to practice with. I notice, not for the first time, that the music or its lack, plays intense role in the rehearsals. As part of the exploration, I tend to practice or improvise without music, because I see then the body becomes more vulnerable, more “naked”. There is no music-element to hide behind or to lean on, it is purely the body and its connection with the space as main impulse to move.
However, then it comes the moment music is complementary and inspiring, of course!
Yesterday without the music they reached this interesting level of pure physicality to deal with...
I think , that the serious talk that Roberto had with them last Tuesday, also helped to find this new engagement. This group of aprendices is forming 3rd generation of actors of Deciertopicante. The process of creation of “Alice" is a natural filter for those, who really want to dedicate themselves to theater within perspective of becoming professionals in the future perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.
I haven't seem them on such a high level before and I was wondering what's the matter. Is it because Roberto yells and demands more on them than me? Or is it because they came back to the text of the play, means, something they know very well, can rely on and feel confident about... so feel more free to explore. We discussed it and everybody agreed that it is thanks to the dance workshop they achieved new level of plasticity and more physical awareness. The doubts or lack of confidence in our previous “dance” rehearsals was caused by the insecurity of using abstract, new language of contemporary dance. Now, after the public show of work-in-progress, which went good and brought us to next level, they open up and with trust, as well with clearer vision or feeling about dance-theater gender, they are eager to engage deeper.
One more observation: yesterday by chance, we had no music/no cd to practice with. I notice, not for the first time, that the music or its lack, plays intense role in the rehearsals. As part of the exploration, I tend to practice or improvise without music, because I see then the body becomes more vulnerable, more “naked”. There is no music-element to hide behind or to lean on, it is purely the body and its connection with the space as main impulse to move.
However, then it comes the moment music is complementary and inspiring, of course!
Yesterday without the music they reached this interesting level of pure physicality to deal with...
I think , that the serious talk that Roberto had with them last Tuesday, also helped to find this new engagement. This group of aprendices is forming 3rd generation of actors of Deciertopicante. The process of creation of “Alice" is a natural filter for those, who really want to dedicate themselves to theater within perspective of becoming professionals in the future perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.
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