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Quatorze miniatures
March 11, 2010 (approximately 1 hour)
I was invited by dramaturge Guy Cools to do a performance to coincide with a workshop he was leading for dancers. This succession of staged improvisations responded to the workshop’s focus on how clothing/costume relates to identity. I was interested in exploring the transitions, juxtapositions, and discrepancies between nearness and distance. The audience was invited to move throughout the space to experience the performance from different viewpoints – to see the work both as a tableau from afar and as detailed, intimate scenes. Moments included emptying my pockets that were full of a mixture of earth and nutmeg, discarding the contents of my wallet and all my secret passwords; naming parts of my body (through gesture and later verbally) as “mother” or “father”; placing tiny hand-made garments on my body; folding and unfolding clothes; and taking apart the sole of my show to reveal a photograph that had been hidden in the heel.
Materials: garments (including fragments from earlier performance The Suit), dry cleaner bags, nutmeg
mixed with earth, thimbles, sea grass, tiny wool garments
Photographers: Elodie Malroux, Jack Stanley
