Hello everyone!
Sorry for the gap between etude’s. A lot of backstage stuff which I’ve had to sort out. I’ll tell y’all about it soon
On a side note, for the 69th edition of etude I want to commision a theatre maker/performance artist who has history/current experience in sex work to write about shows that explore sex work. Reply to this email if you know anyone who would be intrested!
It is impossible to say everything here so I leave you with this by SERAFINE1369
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I am thinking about skin, as boundary, as border site – for exchange, the manifestation of internal and external happenings and also the largest organ of our bodies and as such, a place of messages. Skin is involved in balance, orientation, relation…Skin as interface.
Skin is an organ that speaks to me loudly, a site of sensitivity, protection, defence, warning signs, as well as communing and absorbing resource from sun and other skin foods. Sun is a big thing for me, a site of particular interest, resonance, astrological affinity and a constant craving as a body formed for another climate born onto this non-tropical island.
This was a dance for the outside, with the outsides of myself up against, in relation to, distinct surfaces, visible and invisible touching. Thinking about communication, connection and ways of being together that are flowing and intimate and influential without being overstated or stated explicitly, thinking about exposure and sensation of what is there, not being described in language or conventional social gesture.
I am practicing sensing, through skin and slowness – what is there, what is passing through, what is coming up and out and this a kind of threshold crossing/traversing/dancing state of holding or opening or clearing space or trying to become space. Trying to feel and listen out for voices away from/between/around language. Internal and external. Central and peripheral. In exchange. Receiving and releasing. Distinct and entangled. Always moving.
I chose not to shoot any new footage for this commission, and to work with what was already t/here, an attempt to unravel and elaborate on/from/through this archive footage, bound in time. This is part of a project towards consciously recycling, working with transforming or reframing relationships to past works, the words and objects and movements that are formed and left behind like hollowed out shells. Being with the cyclical, chaotic and irregular flows of time, like weather, moving in relation affecting and responding.
Only One of Many by DD Dorvillier & Sébastien Roux
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Only One of Many, a new collaboration between DD Dorvillier and Sébastien Roux, is fed by a curiosity to see what meanings, affects, images, emerge and transform through the layering of sequences over time; how the perception of the self-same dance or music sequence is affected through its combination with other sequences, and in conversation with the individual experience of each spectator. If the work is “about” anything it's that the non-linguistic perception of abstract forms can be a catalyst for new knowledge and ways of relating to the world.
Perhaps more complex than the accumulation of combined sequences, is the deceptively simple question of what is a single movement or a single sound. If movement, as a fact, is always there, then attributing fictional beginnings and endings to a particular movement, or sound brings movement and sound into the status of something logical that can be seized and defined. We believe that the act of defining sound and movement is a creative and not an absolute one, profoundly reliant on our subjective ability to project into the unknown. It means that many given rules for dance and music are at stake because they can be re-invented, disrupted, decolonized.
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Nine dancers start moving and alternately form a primitive mass and the sum of different individuals. This mutating collective works its way through worlds that are built up out of paradoxical images that feel both familiar and unfamiliar. Dizzying scenes of dominance and submission, exuberance and apathy, joy and pain merge to form an unsettling whole. Fúria depicts a transformative process that moves from celebration to uprising and war. The latest creation of Brazilian choreographer Lia Rodrigues is not only virtuoso and inventive, but also politically and socially committed. As the driving force behind Centro Arte da Maré, an arts centre in one of Rio’s biggest favelas, Rodrigues makes no distinction between her dance and the heterogeneous community in which she is firmly rooted. Neither does Fúria shy away from the complexity of alterity.
The Prick and The Sting by RAUCOS
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An industrial British city in the south,
the Century before the Century before last.
We have landed in a theatre that is battered and bruised but still showing some fighting spirit.
In a dressing room, whose only window opens onto a tanning factory, we find Jesse Byrne - actress, terrible singer, gambler and maverick.
Every night, aided by her young apprentice Tilly, she takes to the stage to turn a gentleman’s head and maybe to open his wallet. She and Tilly are at the end of a brutal tour of industrial Northern towns making the money that will take them to a new life in a new country where the lights are brighter, the applause is louder and the coin more abundant. But desperation has many faces and sometimes what we want isn’t always as shiny as it promises…
And that’s when she made her move.
And I sort of saw it coming if I’m honest.
But had no idea what it would lead to.
Close your eyes and you’ll be there, sitting in that dusty theatre, in that secret laden dressing room as the fable of Jesse and Tilly comes tumbling out of the walls around you.
You will need headphones. For the best experience, use over the ear headphones.
The Prick & The Sting is a new immersive audio experience fusing narrative, binaural sound, original music and online technology. Binaural sound is akin to 3D sound - with a pair of headphones you can hear footsteps pace above you, hear voices argue below you and virtually feel the breath of Tilly’s whisper on your cheek. The Prick & The Sting creates a very real, expansive and sensory encounter that can be experienced in whatever place or space you choose.
Strong language and adult themes throughout so may not be suitable for everyone.
Thanks for reading and thanks for sticking with etude. I really appericiate it.
See you next week
Josh