at this point...
i am reading 4.48 psychosis by sarah kane. i have only just started. it takes you through the experience of her body and mind in her deep depression.
something quite beautiful (and sad) she says when she is trying to explain how she feels
…it’s not a metaphor, it’s a simile, but even if it were, the defining feature of a metaphor is that it’s real.
i am reading 4.48 psychosis because a friend, performer and poet wants to make a work based on this play. i met maitland schnaars in ‘the bridging project’.
we enjoyed working together so we decided that we would do so again.
maitland is the founding member of corazon de vaca with theater director and writer julián fuentes reta from spain. they have created several works and have a fascination about sarah kane’s plays. they performed phaedra’s love in 2007.
coming from different training and experience we wanted to explore these diverse vocabulary and create a new work.
sarah neville, director of ‘the bridging project’ is a choreographer who, as she puts it on her website instigates inter-disciplinary practices and invests in multi-platform processes and production outcomes .
we quickly found that we wanted to have space and time for a creative development.
so we applied for a four week residency in stockholm at dansens hus (house of dance) but ah - no luck.
we are applying for other swedish and australian dance platforms.
the group are us three and visual artist mia holton and my swedish friend and dance artist madeleine karlsson.
some links:
http://www.corazondevaca.com
http://sarahneville.com/
http://www.dansenshus.se
