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And Saudade? Impossibility? Where do they fit in the “final” piece?
Well, this brings us to one of the last discoveries made in the process; a realization that began almost immediately but did not fully land until very late.
My inspiration about Saudade and the aspect of impossibility only came at the 7am end of an all night editing binge, long past the intended deadline for my first working script, and mere weeks away from the opening of the devised theater piece. The performance actions and the audio piece were originally intended to be merely the research phase for the devised theater work. But, as soon as the process began I started to realize that each demanded status as a piece and project and performance in its own right. The content was too rich, the connections too strong, and the collaborators too generous and trusting for anything less than that. Among many things, this process showed me the great weight of obligation that comes with being entrusted with the stories of others, particularly stories of this nature, shared in Abu Dhabi. Rather than a research phase towards performance, the entire project became research, and that research as my quest for meaning became a performance that enveloped and underpinned each individual component of the project.
The Saudade piece will be completed soon, with the help of the research done through the devised theater piece. But the larger project has no finality—it is a performance of research that seeks not to answer the question at its heart, but to keep it open and searching. “What is missing; what is this space between noticing an absence and feeling it?” The question is a container, and using performance as research I keep it expanding outward, moving between and among the streets, the theater, the web and the written word. There is no destination to be reached, nor a linear narrative to be told. Instead, there is a conversation, ebbing and changing and being pulled in discordant directions as each new person enters and brings with them their words and ideas and presence. I perform to listen, and I perform to speak. The project continues.
All together, it’s called
Enter YOU [the audience]
Well, this brings us to one of the last discoveries made in the process; a realization that began almost immediately but did not fully land until very late.
My inspiration about Saudade and the aspect of impossibility only came at the 7am end of an all night editing binge, long past the intended deadline for my first working script, and mere weeks away from the opening of the devised theater piece. The performance actions and the audio piece were originally intended to be merely the research phase for the devised theater work. But, as soon as the process began I started to realize that each demanded status as a piece and project and performance in its own right. The content was too rich, the connections too strong, and the collaborators too generous and trusting for anything less than that. Among many things, this process showed me the great weight of obligation that comes with being entrusted with the stories of others, particularly stories of this nature, shared in Abu Dhabi. Rather than a research phase towards performance, the entire project became research, and that research as my quest for meaning became a performance that enveloped and underpinned each individual component of the project.
The Saudade piece will be completed soon, with the help of the research done through the devised theater piece. But the larger project has no finality—it is a performance of research that seeks not to answer the question at its heart, but to keep it open and searching. “What is missing; what is this space between noticing an absence and feeling it?” The question is a container, and using performance as research I keep it expanding outward, moving between and among the streets, the theater, the web and the written word. There is no destination to be reached, nor a linear narrative to be told. Instead, there is a conversation, ebbing and changing and being pulled in discordant directions as each new person enters and brings with them their words and ideas and presence. I perform to listen, and I perform to speak. The project continues.
All together, it’s called
[ _______ ]
Missing
Enter YOU [the audience]
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