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Klein Technik is a way to approach the functionality of the body as a dancer that really helped me !  You think that you do nothing but it can be very deep. You learn to take time and you are focusing only on yourself. Some day it was too much so I lie on the floor ;-) because just before the class I had hip hop and both activities don't fit together ;-) !

We are doing a dance piece together. It's called Family Dinner and the idea is to tell through moves or gestures the memories, the way we feel, what sort of relation we all have in the situation of a family dinner. I found this subject very interesting because of the several layers like the space organisation (around the table), the relation between body and furniture (chair, table, etc.), the role that each have in a group, the ritual aspect... We talked about our families and take some situation or feeling and we worked on the idea of the scene and then we put the scene together.

We laugh and fight. Also it is very difficult to find a studio free at the Tanzfabrik I think that it made us nervous because we have to rehearse a lot in a short time and the space is so small in some studio. It is always like that and we have to deal with and not to forget to enjoy the dance. What an amazing experience, I love it so much ;-), thanks to Alex, Zoi, Octavi, Marja, Elisa and Hyunsin !

I made a dance video called "Habillée" with Bella. I was thinking about the little movement of taking off the clothes or put on something. About skin, stretching, layers, costumes... we did that for a contest on www.choreooo.org. It was a very nice exercise maybe I will do the workshop "capturing Moving Image" with Katrina McPherson at the Tanzfabrik this summer...because film and dance has always interested me.

The holidays are now over and I want to take the time to resume you the dance performances that I saw the last days ( or a month ago ;-) ). First it was very cold but I got brave and I went threw snow to the Dock11 for the first time in February to see Bubble Boxing from Yui Kawaguchi. The main idea from the choreography was focus on the speakbublle like in comics or manga. To me it seemed very superficial and I didn't get the relation between the two figures. In the middle of the space it was a big white shinning balloon witch reacted of the touch of the dancers into sound. Because of the light of balloon it remember me the moon and the surface of this bubble was something like latex what gives the quality of the skin... it gives in a way the feeling that is organic but I don't know if it was the idea. At the end this balloon became a big eye (so big as the dancers) thanks a video projection on it... like a big organ that evolutes in the space (for me it was inspiring).

Than I saw "Violet" from Meg Stuart in radialsystem with my friend Elisa who is a fan from this choreographer. I was disappointed. 5 dancers, a big black wall and a drummer... I don't remember much only that it was very laud so that my breathcage vibrated. In a point a dancer was screaming and we couldn't hear her because the music was lauder... this was a nice moment because the space, the air was full of the sound and it give an other impression of the space. For me it was mostly quite suddenly and the dancers looked smaller.

 Anyway I enjoy so much to go to dance performances, I want more !

What I saw at the wellness theatre was very nice, true, smooth, funny, surprising and more ! Thank's to you guys ! We had to take off our shoes and take place in a very cosy room with pillows on the floor. It was a stories telling evening from 4 actors, who were wearing crazy clothes, they did a dance duet also while some other persons gave the public some massage. I didn't get one but a enjoy the evening also ! Ida nowhere is a nice place !

To the festival Tanztage Berlin I went two evenings. It's not really true, I went once more but it's been full, yes I'm not from such a big town, where you have to reserve all the time and go 1 hour before... Anyway the first evening I saw "sensation 2" from Ligia Manuela Lewis and "Transformability" from Willy Prager, if I wanted to be careless I would say it was a girl, who wanted to dry her hair and tree people, who did all the time little jumps. But let's try something else ;-)

"Sansation 2" was for me very sensitive and a big show at the same time. A woman alone tried with her hair to cash some air movements. She was in the middle of the stage and the public could walk around her so throw the light she was sometimes a shadow like a drawing lines, some blowers put wind on her and she was turning her head ongoing very fast. It was cold and warm, light and intent like a trance. I liked it very much !

""Transformability" was amusing but I just want to say that I don't know if I like irony all the time. At one point I had the feeling that the public has to do like he enjoy the performance but in ironical way too... But maybe I had misunderstood. This work wanted to translate a theoretical text," Transformability" from Boyan Manchev (2006), into a dance peace with rules from mainstream culture. I have no idea about what talk this text... Funny was to see the public move the heads up and down on the rhythm of the little jumps from the dancers all the show long !

The second time I saw two performances in a room with column that hide a little bit the stage (see the picture). About the piece "Fire is raging in your Hair" I have nothing to say unfortunately ! But on the opposite I found "The harvest from Rodrigo Sobarzo" very interesting, I felt it was about built a space and to take the body a an element like "a stone in the wall". I can't not very much explain -at least I'm not a theorist- but my brain-belly felt inspired !