- 2019 -

Spirited

Tech

I did not film the general the next day, but I made significant changes in the lights.

After the general, Ingrid had feedback about using the lights to better create different worlds and contrasts. As it was from this tech run above, the lights were quite subtle and generally around the same level the entire show.

What I changed was to have a spotlight at the beginning on the first squatted position so that that area is a recurring place that then changes with a new spot at the end of the show. It's creating a specific location that can act as an anchor to relate to and for me and others to project meaning onto. For me it's like the past, or the nest, or the known. At the end of the piece a new spotlight goes up, and I sit there in the present into the future.

Another major change was to have the resets be much darker so that the audience can disappear from time to time. I wanted to give them some rest because otherwise they are always visible and up-close-and-personal to me and each other.

I shifted the lights to support more the general structure of the show which is to enter a world and then come out and then re-enter. So the exiting and re-entering is about making silence. It also links to how Arno Böhler speaks of Pranayama in Yoga...the breath is a cycle. At the in and out breath there is a moment of nothingness...so to become aware of that peak and valley is a reminder of death and rebirth...and that we all come from the void or the nothing and to that we return. The lights by going up and then down like this creates cycles which allows for recharge of energy for me, the performer, and them the audience.