"Here I am in the presence of images, in the vaguest sense of the word, images perceived when my senses are opened to them, unperceived when they are closed." Henri Bergson in Matter and memory |
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"Blink" was created in seven weeks, which is a relatively short period but which we accepted as a challenge.
It will be the mirror of the meeting between our own work and the performers of the Zagreb Dance Company whom we never worked with
before.
I started from the concept of image taken from the first chapter of Matter and Memory of Henri Bergson, and tried to activate and
materialize the definition of these images in the framework of the theatre space. For Bergson, Image equals movement equals matter.
I focused my attention on the invention of simple actions that are possible to execute in a theatre, using props that we found in situ during
our residency in ZekaeM.
Actions should be the starting point" is a sentence that was our starting point.
Plus, the fact that all these actions are happening at the same time rather than one after another was an issue for me.
It was a way to approach this strange and theoretical universe of images of Bergson and to feel the continuous flux of time, in other words :
the duration.
"Blink" or - opening and closing the eyes - engages a specific behavior and perception from the dancers to the audience and vice versa.