Common Ground

Good evening everyone,

We started the new piece with conny ' Common Ground', a location performence. She never made a piece in open air... Its exciting. She is gonna create a piece in the heart of rotterdam, an open, lost and deserted place, amongst unused traintracks and superhigh buildings.

Last wednesday we went to this place and its huge, and I felt so empty when I was there. You are so seen, you are so lonely, you are so left alone. You feel you are in a rough place, where everything is raw, real, and somehow (for me personally) a bit painfull.

The dance we will create is about people and their own strange world.

We will be with 10 dancers, 5 boys and 5 girls. Theyre two new girls and one new boy. And one girl (Francesca) of Vuil&Glas left. Which feels kind of strange. Because in the day we are working on a new piece, with different people, and in the evening we have this performence of another piece with other people.
It will be hard I think, because we have to be personal. Create own movement-phrases (which is for me somehow always a kind of blocking, annoying, an unable thing to do, I feel completely lost when I have to create...). I think Conny needs me to be more personal, more open. Especially in this coming piece. I think she wants me to bare my soul in my work.

Anyway, these days are hard days. Rehearsels of one new piece, while still performing Vuil&Glas often is a difficult combination for me. In scapino it was more easy, because I didnt had so much to do, so I could devide my attention more easy. With Conny Im really involved, which is beautiful but it also gives pressure I feel (or maybe thats just in my mind), and its more hard to switch from one piece to another.

The performences of Vuil&Glas are getting a bit better for me. I am more clear in what I do on stage, I begin to understand the movement, the combinations of the steps.. Yes, it sounds silly but in the beginning and especially in the first few performences I was just busy with remembering the steps and the corrections for steps. I felt so bad.

But as I said, I feel a bit better now :)

I think Im gonna do Yoga twice a week after rehearsel.. I think it will be good for me, good for my body. I need more center, more control in my body. I lack knowledge of my body and I think Yoga will help me to understand more of my body. How to be more in control, how to be more clear in dynamic.. mhhh interesting..

Will write more later!

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