Tracing Gestures at The Place

 I started working on the next development phase for 'Tracing Gestures'. I am joined by a new team of performers, Richard Court, Aaron Markwell and Stephen Moynihan. We have been exploring a range of tasks in which we use drawing and video recording as a medium to capture fragments of each other's movements and physicalities. The first two weeks of rehearsal have been a test of our observation and listening ability, searching for detail and precision. I feel quite touched by the performers' quiet and continuous generosity in these questioning interactions. I keep leaving the studio strangely happy at the end of the day, and slightly panicked, wanting to find a good way to share this intimate and subtle process with an audience. And knowing that it might escape me.