Thursday, 25 November 2010

Ends and Odds

Although not new, I have only this week discovered the fascinating dance piece May B by Maguy Marin. There are two interesting websites, which you can see here and here. On the former she writes,

"This piece based on the writings of Samuel Beckett, whose work contradicts in its theatrical movement and atmosphere the physical and aesthetic performance of a dancer, has enabled us to lay the grounds for a secret deciphering of our most intimate, hidden and ignored gestures.

To succeed in unveiling the tiny or spectacular gestures of the many unnoticeable and unconspicious lives in which waiting and 'not quite still' stillness create a void, a huge nothingness, a silent space filled with the hesitations. When Beckett's characters yearn for stillness, they cannot help moving; be it a little or a lot, they move.

In this essentially theatrical work, the point, for us, was less to develop words and speech than blown-up form of movement, thus seeking the meeting point between movement applied to theatre on the one hand, and dance and choreographic language on the other."

You can see a video of the piece here. Enjoy!