A look back through the lens of Victoriano Moreno at the beginning of a first joint residency day that kicked off with ???????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????. “Hybrid” popped up as a key word and, along with “experiment,” sums up the day well.
Marthe Koning reached out to us with tools to create a sound bath. And we got to work with our voice, melody and textures, forming a living loop station, so to speak. Tamayo Okano made us look without eyes, by focusing on skin and listening to body heat. We were allowed to experience inner time, hold ourselves and discover a new technique to block external input. Lila Magnifique shared how she mentally prepares for a day in the studio and how to “get out of your head. A reminder to be sure not to forget to have fun, too. Timur Magomedgadzhiev took “contradictions” (or was it “opposites”?) as a starting point to tell stories. Even before the exercise began, we ended up in a semantic discussion that concluded with the concept of Homo Duplex.
In short, an unforgettable experience, cultural workers and artists together in the rehearsal studio, a great start to an inspiring exchange. And a lesson to bring our slippers next time, because spending a day on the ballet floor in socks is indeed brrr….
Shared Practices, Shared Research – A residency in collaboration with Corso, detheatermaker, MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM, Monty and Rataplan.
With the support of the Flemish Government and the City of Antwerp.
