memories and statements

2004

memories and statements
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Concept and Direction:
Ame Henderson
Performance:
Claudia Fancello (memories)
Stacy Hannah (statements)
Dramaturgy:
Jacob Zimmer
Video:
Daniel Arcé
Music:
Eric Craven
Production History:
June 10-12, 2004 square zero independent dance festival, Ottawa
June 18, 2004 Studio Sweatshop Performance Series, Montreal
A catalogue of memories and statements. A guide to moving before you're ready or after it's too late.

From our notes:

*REMEMBERING. How do you perform remembering? The movement of remembering "I remember..." move. Imagination is remembering what has never happened. Text: "and I remember". Mostly remembering. "Right, right." What does remembering look like?

*STATEMENTS. Ending in a period - full stop. This much and no more. Complete. Statements refute sub-clauses and addenda. Some statements take years to express. Others we start and finish by standing up.

The solos memories and statements trace the impermanence and fragility of the body through the exploration of two distinct modes for communication. A portrait / anti-portrait, each solo questions the locus for identity and tracks the resonance of ideas on the physical state. Each body is an installation in the space, as much about what is absent as what is present.