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

After the weekend

Super day today...going from the 'Past Bed' to an adaptation of Caroline's tunnel into ...?
We've been trying a few different 'transitions' in the last few days...So exiting to start to see all the different elements and 'sections' we've been working on morphing into one another... Thought processes, images and our logic actually starting to take form, so thrilling to see!!
'Superimposed Apartment' really progressing and taking shape.
Over the next week (after the 'Past Bed') we will work the 'Present Table' and then the 'Future Roof'.

G

struggles

We have been in residency at Piano Fabriek http://www.depianofabriek.vgc.be in Brussels for the last week now and will be here until 28th March with a weeks break in between. It is always a bit unsettling to keep changing residency venues like this. We had a very good Friday to finish off the week but it had been a tough one! ...Struggles, trying, failing, trying again...tedious... and general fatigue in the group...still no blow-ups as yet though (hope i'm not speaking too soon!) Here's to this week! It feels good after a weekend to think, to rest and to order thoughts inside my head.

G

bits of bobs life

The balance of home is precarious. The search for this place is a process of construction, de-construction and re-construction. Whether rooted or up-rooted our origins remain with us. The up-rooted with clumps of the motherland dangling beneath, finding nourishment here and there along the journey and all the while subconsciously searching for that place to call home again. This place is a mystery for many of us in today’s cosmopolitan and transient society where ephemeral dwellings become commonplace and the ease of access to information and travel sparks curiosity.
This place called home becomes caught between memories of childhood and aspirations for the future. It hurts to discover that the childhood home has been outgrown. The memory betrays us and it is only after futile attempts at rekindling the past that we learn to move on.
If this place called home is found, even in fleeting moments, it forms an extension of the body or it succumbs to the manipulation of society, the illusion of perfection, and is engulfed by the material home.
In the struggle to keep up in a world that is changing fast with borders extending, nostalgic memories and traditions tug against our hunger for the new and the better and the more comfortable. This evokes confusion and questions and most importantly the search for a fine balance between past, present and future.

Text & image by Gemma Higginbotham

BUDA-KORTRIJK

We have just finished a very intense week at BUDA in Kortrijk http://www.budakortrijk.be where we have had a new prototype of the set to play with. Nadine Grallinger (costume) also joined us with two big bags of clothes to try out...what fun! Pedar Lindbom (light) was with us for the last three days watching rehearsals too! All aspects moving forward.
Vincent and Anuschka working on a wonderful piece dicovering eachothers bodies with childlike innocence. We have also been working on a ''liquified baby bubble'', extremely soft mass of morphing bodies using the image of a litter of puppies. I gave them a list of 6 words to work from: snuggle, treasure, swaddled, haven, cosy and womb.

Gem

Going public!

Just came back from three intensive and fun days! It's great to meet everyone and see a little of the work. Really inspiring!
Just want to let everyone know that the blog has now gone public!

Welcome world!

Peder