Richard's Post

KONSTEPIDEMIN December 2012
It's the end of my week long residency here in Gothenberg at the The Dansbyran.  Until Monday, I had never worked with Stephanie creating new work and especially not at this intensity.  I met Mamoro for the first time this week...

Our starting point was to use the book "Notations" by Theresa Sauer, and choosing a couple of scores that spoke to us from the book, begin translating these music notation (these were not standard form stave music notations as some and most, were paintings and drawings  and artistic translations and guidelines of how the composers wished their compositions to be played) into our own physical movement responses attempting to stay as close as possible to the material presented in front of us.  the three of us come from very different backgrounds, Mamoro especially with no dance practice experience whatsoever, so the results were fascinating and exciting.  Other exercises involved making our own movement scores and passing them to one another to interpret and perform.  We then created further material from scores from the Notation book and one person would step out  of the room while the remainder performed their material to the other for them to notate in their own way.  The person who was out of the room would then return to read the new notation and interpret it as accurately as possible.  Exercises continued in this vain with different variations including the addition of the voice combined with movement taking inspiration again, from chosen scores from the Notations book.  We continued with these themes and ideas and the big question of how and what to translate from given scores and further more, movement material from one person to another and how that transforms from one person to another - what is lost and what stays...

The residency has been very enjoyable, satisfying, challenging and an absolute joy to work with two wonderful artists, which is never a given, especially when working with new people and ideas.