Making a transmedia performance we had different parts to make come together to tell our story about being an other. We use the metaphor of a fluid shell as as something we search for when deviating from the social norms. For this we need to go outside of ourselves, to examine the empty space, to find our place within. We come from personal situations that ultimately become universal. Gender, sexuality, race, migration. We want to create something that reflects this emptiness as a shell waiting to be filled, disconnected, with no core, no center trying to find a sense of belonging.

Our first performance was at Catalyst/ Funkhaus. We had rehearsals three times a week to make sure all these elements came together and everyone was prepared for a live performance. It was a process of editing while staying true to our concept and looking at the fuller picture.

We worked first in our concept and storyline. With this clear we made our visuals off of it in touch designer and worked with choreography to show this sense of struggle to belong within our context as well as how it connects to the space, we also worked together with the sound collaborators making sure their performance was aligned to the other elements to create a performance that worked together.

I was the project manager of this team, in charge of all the logistics and the overall experience of the performance, how all of these elements worked together, sound-body-visuals also worked in concept and storyline, worked closely with Carolina Genoni to make the movements of the piece and the styling of her, keeping the anchor in our performer finding timings and movements to be able to portray what we wanted to say and how all the other elements responded to this.

Keywords for performance: Cracking - Breaking-  Primal - Fragmentation - Dissociation - Escaping- Dispossession

Bibliography/ References

The references to this work come from Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russell, Queer Phenomenology by Sara Ahmed, the scientific term Poles of Inaccessibility and our interpretation of it, Poetics of space by G. Bachelars, Dispossession from Judith Butler, the work of Miranda July and TatekAl-Ghoussein. Also our own experiences of feeling like others through experiences regarding migration, queerness, exile, and feeling like you don’t belong. Through exercises done within our group talking about our personal experiences.

Movement references come from Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas – Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich, other Rosas performances and interaction of body and visual references come from Pixel - Compagnie Käfig and Mortal Engine by Chunky Move as well as lightly inspired by the practice of Butoh.