Art, practice, devotion
29 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
in Transdisciplinary R-Evolutions in Puppetry and Performance
It is the most perfect summers day in the Cape, almost as if a divine hand had wiped the pouring clouds of the previous day into dissipated mist. Everything is set in place, well as much as it can be. There has been a lot of rehearsal and set up has been taxing, every element carefully planned with the anxious knowing that it is only in this one performance, this single coming together of all the elements, that the alchemy will and must happen. I have prepared all the parts, painstakingly, with deft precision and months of praying, organising, giving over to the link between research and people, aesthetics and ritual, performance and vision. Now the improv must lead the way. What can prepare you for the live moment? We had undergone gruelling and intense training, counselling, purging and offering. ‘How old are you?’ 27. ‘That is a difficult age, an age of great change and indecision. It’s a difficult time to do something like this. You must use your gifts, performance and art is your gift. That will heal you.’
more to come…
