Kaleidoscope

We realized we’re not speaking the same languages and thus not understanding the same things. This is to be understood in a literal way:

– there is a mixture of Dutch, French, Spanish & English native speakers in the group

– there is a mixture of disciplines each dealing with their own protocols

So one morning we sat down with a cup of coffee and agreed upon the following:

– a score: a proposition with rules, can be of any kind

– a notation: output of the action, a written trace of something, enables repetition and re-use, can become a score

– an instruction: a guide for action without any judgment value

– a rule: a guide for action with judgment value (good/bad, win/loose,…)

– a partition (bastard use from French and Dutch): we used it as a ‘partiture’ (FR/NL), but it is a ‘division’

Ingredients:

– 1 storyteller

– 1 dancer

– 1 manipulator of  lighttable

– 1 camera filming scene attached to beamer

Time: 10′

Instruction:
Play with visibility and invisibility

Extra:
– the storyteller: when you’re lighted up, speak as if you were sitting at a table in dialogue with someone you love and has not seen for a very long time because of a dispute you had – when you’re invisible, follow the dancer and/or guide her in her world
– the dancer: imagine you’re the character the storyteller is talking to

Variation:
Change the frequency of players and play with flashlights in the dark

Ingredients:

– 2 dancers

– 2 storytellers/actors

Time: 4′

Pick 4 words/movements that you say/do everyday and go with those into dialogue with each other

Ingredients:
– 2 dancers
– 1 musician
– 1 storyteller
– 1 television
– 1 screen

Time: 4′

The dancers follow each other, the musician reads their movements as a score on the screen, the storyteller holds a book with a small text block on molecules, watches tv and comments using the text block.

Variation: change roles over and over and see what happens

Ingredients:
– 2 players
– 1 musicien

Rules:
2 people on a chair facing each other, musician lying on the floor. The 2 people start to react with movement on small movements from the other. Make the movements bigger. Intention grows. The music tries to follow the movements.

Variation: 2 people standing next to each other/ or lying on the floor. They can’t see each others movements very clear, only big movements become visible for the other.