The Highjacking of the "dance-without-speaking"
The Highjacking of the "dance-without-speaking" project is a group choreography created with incremental instructions revealed throughout the week for a choreography made chronologically with no going back.
Situated somewhere between deliciously precise dance writing and mindful moments of improvisation this piece will have no rehearsals but rather earlier/shorter versions performed throughout the week. As well as allowing the creature to evolve organically, each day we will try to focus on a specific choreographic theme (possibly: time-constellations/casting-space-styles/vocabulary-setting an end) and all information will be passed via instructions - projected on the wall or snuck individually in your pocket. There will be the minimum of talking (mime, sign language or face-pulling), if you didn’t completely understand or feel there are different options then participants are strongly encouraged to use their intuitive skills and to go with what they think it might be, what they think the piece needs, what someone else seems to be doing and looks good, doing all options at once. There is a conscious blur between interpreter and choreographer as there is between rehearsal and performance - Vive l’ambiguité! At the end of each day there will be time for participants to "hijack" the dance with ideas of how to continue. These can be presented in writing to the committee (Alix and Mark) to be considered for incorporation for the following days.
As we are performing every day, if ever you can’t make it you must send along your understudy.
Alix EynaudiMark Lorimer
