What if we define values, principles, and methodologies, resisting the pressure to define outcomes? What if we focus on what drives us and on how we want to live and work together, but leave the imagination open to the concrete shapes our collaboration can take?
You find yourself in front of a nun’s convent, and when the doors open, a child appears, and with an air of wisdom that only children can have when they stand in their power and carry their own agency, takes your hand to guide you in. It is an unusual situation, to surrender to a silent young stranger this way. You feel the power shifting.
Wish-full thinking. It contains a wish, a hope, a possibility, a thought experiment, a fantasy, a “what if…”, the potential of the performance to enact change – political or social change, maybe, or a change in the energy of the room, or a psychological change, momentary or lasting, in the spectator.
I’m standing in a queue waiting to get into my own show.
Three scenes from the National Arts Festival, blending the real with the imaginary, the fantastical.