the unnamable

A beautiful animation film, based on the novel of the same name by Samuel Beckett. By jenny.triggs@blueyonder.co.uk at Daniel Warren TV





In the last weeks of February 2009 dancer Kay Patru, actor Efrem Stein, choreographer Giulia Mureddu and me will continue our research into differences or dialects in body tone and tradition between dancers and actors (or anyone) at danslab in The Hague. We will use short prose texts from Samuel Beckett to get the body going. Walter van der Star will help to translate Beckett. Dr. Wilma Siccama will lecture on the way Beckett's work undermines visual and oral regimes. Architect Joris Berger is invited to develop the design of a stage prop that can function as a third body and as a hide out for the performers. He will visit the research to develop his first ideas.

shaolin kungfu monks

There is an expression that prostitution is the eldest occupation in the world. I would add that fighting is the eldest form of sports. Fighting traditions combine physical and mental training with rhetoric and decoration. In the practice of fighting, there are direct relations with performance strategies from circus, dance and theater. Just like in prostitution. To impress, to attract and to finish off.



A rather theatrical kungfu demonstration at the University of Washington, October, 2006.