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Together with my collaborators we were researching the notions of choreography and performance art. In the research process we were dealing with elements such as interpretation, repetition, re-enactment and immediacy. We spent quite some time thinking about and discussing immediacy, trying to find ways to include it into the choreographic process.
One consequence of this research was that at a certain moment in the piece there was a ‘live’ discussion happening between me and one performer. The discussion was happening at the table, not so far from the audience, in a more or less relaxed manner. We knew what we would talk about, and what would be the leading points of the conversation, but no more than that.
During the talk we could act spontaneously, which also involved an element of risk as we could not predict in which direction the conversation would flow. Often we would allow ourselves to address the audience, and the audience was free to intervene at any time. This created a very special atmosphere in the theatre, where the performers gradually got quite familiar with the audience and vice versa, but without giving up each other’s roles. In comparison to everything that came before or happened after in the show, this talk gave a strong sensation of the here and now, of the real, of the one-time experience, of the unrepeatable, of liveness.
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