Today I was looking at the video we took of Saturday's show and taking notes, mostly mental ones. Even with the benefit of video to place my point of view in the spectator's seat it is still difficult to see this at all freshly and not be bound up inside the creating and performing of it. This does not doom the effort to introversion but it is a tension I am always working with. What did become clear was the idea that there should be a visible cueing system whereby performer, lights or sound could all initiate cues that would have visible repercussions on the other parties was not fully developed. I wanted to get away from the typical composite staging of all elements working towards a unified vision moment to moment. I rather wanted to see each have a degree of independence. In order to make this visible some clear stages building up to the complex system that it has become need to be made clear.
Something else that needs to happen is to go further into choreography. Here are some photos from rehearsals the other day. Yes it does look like dance. We have to persevere with the rather C-list material we have been given and arrive at a genuinely interesting physical staging of the ideas as that is a very significant part of the performance. In these photos Kayja is attempting to perform two dances at the same time: the leg movements of The Papaya with the upper body movements of Agadoo. The result is, strangely enough, like neither. This hybrid has its own ethereal quality.
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