Failure, a connection, a performance

Events happen very fast, in a totally interlinked way, that makes me wonder if it all had been scripted and I am simply following that script.

16.04.15
. started and intensive live art- body in performance course and one of the texts I was given to read were various accounts on the theme of the body by members of the performance group Goat Island. It is discussed, in these accounts, imitation as a process of generating performance material. For instance, taking an existing dance piece (Pina Bausch's choreographies are mentioned) and copy the movements. The realisation that the performers (not dance trained) would never get the movements right and the idea of staging a failure is valued by the group, in that it represents inability and provides the performers with fragility and unstable possibilities.

25.04.15
. attended an audition for a place in Boris Charmatz's Roman Photo piece to be performed at the Museé de la danse at the Tate Modern in May. The piece is a recreation of every picture in David Vaughan's Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years (1997) as a speed-up version of Cunningham's work. Performed by amateurs (not professional dancers), Charmatz is interested in the idea of re-creating something fake that may or may not succeed. While recreating one of the pictures I sprained my calf muscle stopping me to continue the audition. I was not called for the rehearsals.

EVERYTHING IS HERE
IN PLACE
FOR
SOMETHING TO HAPPEN
BUT                   NOTHING
        HAPPENS
YET
DOES SOMETHING
HAPPEN WHEN
NOTHING
HAPPENS?

On movement- trying to get it right

Domestic performances - Ensemble (Improvisation)

Ana Vicente, Ensemble (Improvisation), 31.03.2015, video (domestic) performance 

Ana Vicente, Broken cups composite, 2015, digital photography

Domestic performances - Domestic(o) 1 (study)

Ana Vicente, Domestic(o) 1 (study), March 2015, video performance

PERFORMANCE- Piece 1 in two parts (creating and developing)

Rehearsal: sketchbook, 11 x post-its, laptop (displaying image slideshow), headphones, pen

Ana Vicente, Piece 1 in two parts (part 1- still from recorded performance), 12.12.14
Holy Redeemer Church Hall, Exmouth Market,  London

Ana Vicente, Piece 1 in two parts (part 2- still from recorded performance), 12.12.14
Holy Redeemer Church Hall, Exmouth Market,  London

Tech-sheet page 1

Tech-sheet page 2

Part 1:
Birds singing
Seating down
Series of 11 different stretches


Part 2:
Steps
Stomping slow paced to fast paced
Walking
Running front back side ways
Arm & leg movement
Rolling

Work in progress- Domestic space

 

Souvenance- John Cage 5/9/1912- 12/8/1992

PHOTOGRAPHY- Encounter (Public Art)

2.2.14
9.52 am
Headed to Broomfield park. 
Initially with the intention to jog. 
The day is beautiful. 
It has been a habit on mine to visit the park on new year's day.(3 possibilities)
Yesterday was a torrential day, so I didn't dare to venture out. 
I paid my visit today.
Jogging, soon seemed the wrong thing to do. 
When you are jogging you are not looking. 
And there was so much to look at. 
There was green to look at, hope. 
I decided not to jog but to look at hope.

Long shadows, giant companions

Sailing hope, green wings