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J.L.V.:My interest in playing with the shifting of contexts led me to my next work Live to Tape, a Still Moving Talk Show. The dance context here relocates to the TV context of a live talk show. The audience and the performers are situated in a set- up very similar to a TV talk show, but without the presence of cameras. Changing shots, zooming, slow motion, speeding up and the like – all this is performed only by the performers through their facial expressions, movements and speech. The talk show is often interrupted when the performers exit the TV mode of performing – the conversation – to embrace the gestures and to enter a silent, movement mode, in which hand gestures and facial expressions become the dominant choreographic material.
The main focus of the research occupying me ever since Under Construction is the issue of liveness: what is it that makes performance a live experience and why does presence have to be a crucial element for its realisation? Over the past few decades the issue of presence in contemporary dance is extremely present, and it often made me wonder why such obsessive interests for creating conditions for presence appear.