Hello everybody, for the people who read this blog I would like to contextualize a bit the situation. This blog is a part of a project that includes three choreographs which Companhia Instável invited and sponsors to work, is a group with four persons.
Pavlos kountouriotis had the idea of creating a blog to relationate every days work, thoughts that could describe a creative artistic process for a dance piece.
In this context I start to write for the first time in a blog. Well we start with a introduction talk, conversation about the aims, issues of the work. In the beginning we relate to each other by talking about previously work, after Pavlos introduce the two main focus os interest of this project and we spoke as well about the way we will create this blogging.
In this order the two main focus consists in two words: Camp and Violence.
We gave definitions for both of them, we discuses, gave examples, found what is it about. So in fact and trying to resume, Camp is a exaggeration of femininity or masculinity, is connect with gay movement, over production of things ect…
For Violence we define like, intentional physical harm towards others or individual.
In between time we also define the rules for blogging.
The lunch break.
In the afternoon after watching some videos in youtube about Camp we start the physical work.
I found very surprising the themes that were select for the work, something going over the top, over borders, over limits and a representation of a reality that lying is telling or shows the true.
During the lunch and when we were discussing I immediately start to classify my mind about it and start to see images that I pass through or that were created in the moment, the big wave amazed with blondy foam realities or cinematographic images, until where the taste for violence can go? , why do we like to watch violence? , do I consider certain object has a camp example, why ?, it is because I do consider in having something to do with it or I see a sterilization of a type. Camp is large, in a way that we can not describe it or charactize it, we just know that is it.
The studio is calm now and the bells of a church are giving us the six o’clock hour, after a very physical warm up/class, were included floor work stretching we had start the real cheat. We came nicely into a representation of a kung fu fight, with the highest vibration of the vocal Japanese sounds, suddenly we came into a oriental field full of jasmine and cherry’s trees some stones with Japanese calligraphy, jumping screaming faking hits, kicks and bits extremely representative. We discuss about it and I conclude that is not about the real things but more for the future about what it works and what doesn't work, the others conclude that there is a board line about doing or over doing, that is about passion and intention rather then act fake.
We left this task to pass to other camp, kitch , lips sync assignment which consist in three layers. First of all we putted the famous Madonna playing in the Ipod and then real next to the mirror we had to face yourselves and playback singing. That was weird and occurs at the same time, some ugliness for the moment, then after we gave two step back from the mirror and bit by bit the heat start to introduce the self into some camp embarrassing instants , then the comfort of the representation token place for the enjoyment of being Madonna for a moment. And for the last task we had to represent in front of your colleges this personage, trying to not judge and trying to glorify the behaviour by repeting continuously this character.
It was fun to see and feel the transformation and that after a while the embarrassing situation would go away, the real person expose while where very submerge by the task had still is own, very much, human nature.That was it for a day which finished by write all of this, like I suppose will continue going on for three full weeks, except the Sundays
