Jeroen Peeters
Peeters, J. (2022). And then it got legs. Varamo Press.
‘Naming is a way to mark materials as they emerge in rehearsal, for instance in an improvisation. After a session, together you acknowledge the moments ‘when something happened’, when materials appeared to have potential. Description from outside (by choreographer or dramaturg) can help to provide an idea of what transpires tot spectators, yet it’s important to have dancers share their internal viewpoint too. A name will often emerge spontaneously and arbitrary from the material (…) Giving a name to specific moments, situations, qualities or sequences provides everyone with something to hold onto, it makes them available for discussion and repetition. (…) The name will stick and might spark a particular imagination – good names hold a promise -but in the end it is only an indicator of the material, its history in the process and its particular embodiment by the performers.”’
p. 39-40
Op de achterflap van het boek:
‘Phantasmal archeology, unfolding material, literal and physical reading, crafting method, articulating process, witnessing and performing not-knowing, naming and ritual destruction, conceptual landscapes, symbolic waste, internal fictions and foreign objects – they may all play a role in creation and in exploring the unfamiliar of making sense.
And then it got legs is an invitation to think along or against, to discuss those ideas with others or explore in the studio, and eventually to imagine and devise one’s own methods of research, observation, reflection and creation.’
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