Hands up/Hands down, a performance-installation of spoken text, animated drawing, video and live performance. Melkweg Theater Amsterdam 2005
2005
Four large paper sheets are suspended. Each hold a different media; spoken text, animation, video and live body. Hands Up/Hands down is a musing into my relationship with drawing across page and format and of what is happening between hands up and hands down. Time slows, is slowing, is slowing.
concept and choreography Katrina Brown
spoken text Katrina Brown
dance Guillem de Mont
dramaturgy Igor Dobričić
Melkweg Theater/Dance Unlimited Amsterdam
Text ‘Hands up/Hands down written by Katrina Brown with advice from Igor Dobričić
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two men
the same man
in a different moment
he has his hands up
he has his hands down
all that there is
between
hands up and hands down
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try try to get
emotion
power
image
seductiveness
love
disagreement
into him….
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something in him
the surrender,
the shabbiness
the animal-like
the lack of context
very close
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I need friction
feel alive, sensing friction
contradiction.
disturbances, crashes
he falls out of the frame
distorts, collapses, blurs
then I see
believe
his beauty
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