On Ivana Muller’s “While We Were Holding It Together” at the FIAF: Crossing the Line Festival
September 24, 2008 · Posted by Reflections on Dance ·
I was scheduled to begin a sitting meditation retreat tonight; I went instead to Ivana Muller’s performance, While We Were Holding It Together, co-presented by DTW and FIAF as part of the Crossing the Line Festival.Instead of practicing letting go within a monastery, I sat in a theater and watched five performers hold it together.The five performers sustain the same positions for Muller’s entire 67 minute piece. Their eyes move. They quiver out of muscle fatigue. But it is primarily the movement of their voices and minds that we follow. (Ivana Muller's While We Were Holding ...
On Samuel Beckett’s The Image as conceived by Arthur Nauzyciel at FIAF Festival
September 18, 2008 · Posted by Reflections on Dance ·
There’s grass on the eighth floor covering the floor people lying on it not smoking it though it smells sweet real one man lying one woman standing facing one standing not facing us as Beckett’s short story projects onto the wall painted three shades of blue next to the wall that is windows looking into the changing sky magical pixie musician in green plays computer pipes motion sensors detecting the growth of the grass for a moment and for fifteen minutes the woman not facing faces and recites The short story en Francais high culture pretention with spit flying onto ...
