Wallflower: Robbert van Heuven interviews Richard Gregory
In Wallflower, Quarantine challenges you to remember all the dances you’ve danced in your life – because what you remember is who you are. Try it yourself. Take a few minutes to remember the dances you’ve danced over the last few years. Why were you dancing? With whom? What music was playing? How did you feel? The more dances you remember, […]
Notes from a Wallflower – Monday 17th August
As we approach the end, I’m reminded of how the work seems – to me – to be always asking, what is a dance? Sonia in the oval auditorium, with 60s panelling, remembers a dance that takes place after the concert. She roots herself firmly into the ground and beats her right hand into the […]
Notes from a Wallflower: Wednesday 12th August
Sonia is about to perform her solo. She begins by explaining the context for the first dance she is about to do and then the music starts. I think about how much the movement speaks – it seems – more thoroughly and deeply than words. Later in the solo, she describes a tale of lost […]
Notes from a Wallflower: Tuesday 11th August
The room is quiet as everyone puts pencil to paper. I watch Jo set the sheet down in the centre of her notebook very carefully and deliberately. A mapping exercise is beginning, in which each of the Wallflower performers, and Richard and Renny, mark out on paper their own sense of the piece in terms […]
Notes from a Wallflower: Mon 10th August
I arrived as the performers were breaking for lunch. Nic asks, ‘does anyone want anything from the outside world?’ and I occupy myself thinking about that idea of another world – the world of the rehearsal room. After lunch is a period of talking. Richard discusses the idea of the constructed memory of an event […]
Notes from a Wallflower
Quarantine invites blogger and academic Dani Abulhawa into the creative process as we enter the last few weeks of making our new work, Wallflower… Thursday 6th August The performers are halfway through the creative process, when I arrive to observe. I enter the rehearsal room and take a seat, with a feeling of needing to […]