Kiddofspeed

Got to talking with Peter the other day about Chernobyl remembering a photo account of a girl riding a fast motorcycle through the radioactive wastelands around the area and thought it relates to our theme.

Don't miss the fact that story is several pages long (the Next page link is a bit obscure halfway down the page on the right)

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html

Especially this image:
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/367img/image14.2.jpg

I also found another photoaccount on the same theme by her here:
http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/pluto1.html

Peder

Sorry to have left you.This period at Potsdam Fabriek is pretty intense hence no Blog postings for a while.
Bits of Bobs Life is really coming together! We will try to take some photos to post tonight. This last week we have been running the piece every day, every day changing, adjusting, replacing, erasing, reconstructing...so amazing how a piece can suddenly take form. Last nights run through was the first time it all starts to look like something we can really be proud of :) There is still work to be done...premier 7th May in Umeå, Sweden so still some time!

Dusseldorf

It has been a while since the last post. Since last the group has moved on to Tanzhaus, Dussldorf www.tanzhaus-nrw.de/ where we are in residency for two weeks with a work in progress showing at the end of the residency (Saturday 12th). Much progress has been made in the last week with the setting of material, always very tedious!, but we're getting there! Blurred memory is looking beautiful! Superimposed Apartment too! Looking forward to Peter (sound) arriving tonight as it is not quite the same without his amazing sounds! A few more ideas that we need to try out in regards soundscape and transitions etc. Also Superimposed Apartment t... we need to work on sound wise with the performers in order to set cues for them in the soundscape. The trees are back in force at the moment!
Next week we should be able to try our first rough run through of the piece!

G

Stroke of insight

Fascinating story from the inside of experiencing a stroke:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/229

Peder

These are a couple of rehearsal photos. We have not been in the studio this week, back to the attack on Monday.

possessed

I found this link on Tim Etchells site http://www.vimeo.com/603058 It is a film by Martin Hampton called Possessed, a film about hoarders and their addiction to their posssions ...I was intregued by the woman (i think it's the third story) who sees her hoarding as a kind of time capsule. It is very touching, very sad and yet so beautiful.

G

now and the wolf

Philippe and I wrote a text for the Present Table...misunderstandings and misinterpretations occuring constantly... there are always problems with the now...based on the now and the fact that by the time you've said it the now has already become the past! now is now but it's heading towards the future.
...Vinny (Vincent) is the wolf! The wolf is a little homage to my childhood (i had an imaginary wild white wolf as a 'friend' when i was a child). Philippe also had a reoccuring dream about a wolf. I shouln't say too much about the wolf as this blog is now public, you'll have wait and see!...but he's beautiful!!!
...off to another day in the studio!

G