thoughts while watching - Michael

Watching rehearsals, I am also beginning to write - not necessarily "about" what I'm seeing, but more on what I'm thinking about while I'm watching. I'll try to post some more of these "thoughts while watching" - at the moment we're working on Double Bill #1, with Michael and Ame Henderson.

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From last week:

Variation as an antidote to tyranny – not that we all must be variant all the time – but that there is a capacity to move between – to be the same and to move apart. To place authority in many places. “Collaboration” (or “anti-tyranny) is not a lack of authority – it is an understanding that authority is fluid and consensual – that it is based on agreement that all can share and read.

Obviously bodies are different and so is movement – it is tyranny to remove difference. Tyranny as the enforced lie of sameness. (Stepping together being the public display of tyranny – being punished for being out of line.)

And this is also about the eyes – the tyrannized should no longer need to see (says the tyrant) – in fact it is discouraged.