Thank you for reading my blog despite the million other things you have to do right now.
I'm back in Berlin from Sauen, and had an amazing time. It's one of those cases where what happened and was achieved in nine days equals to what I normally achieve in six months. That means that I can't describe all that happened.
However, most days were like this: we met with a director/composer/choreographer/costume designers/video artist/ dramaturges etc. every morning, do discuss interesting works and watch/listen to examples. Each teacher brought not the whole variety of what can be done in his/her medium, but more focused on some interesting ideas. Then we divided into groups, each day we worked in different groups, in order to get to know each other closely. In our groups we had several hours to work on an assignment, which we displayed or performed in the evening, followed by a discussion of our work. Later in the evening, we usually had presentations of our teachers' own works.
Some of the assignements:
*Take a hat or two, create a character who has a life story, a personality, a way of interacting with others, and create a 10 minute piece.
*Create a video that is no longer than 5 minutes, and contains an element of loop.
*Find an area with an interesting sound, and add only one element to that area/environment. The piece lasts for 4:33 (John Cage reference, of course)
*Take a Kafka text and without actually acting out the text, create a piece that is based on that text.
*Take a Mozart aria, and extract only a fragment or two from it. Create a 5-10 minute piece.
*Find a space with some man-made architecture, and create a movement piece that relies on the angles and form of that architecture, on site.
There were more amazing ideas and assignments. For every single assingment, we used very diverse media, such as recorded sounds, recorded music, video, still photos, acting, projections, miming, dancing, all in combinations with each other. There was hardly one piece that only used one medium.
It was amazing to work with all these people - students and teachers, and I made a lot of friends, that I definitely want to keep seeing in Berlin. I am the most fortunate person in the world, because I just arrived to Berlin three weeks ago, and already I know all these fantastic people from different art disciplines. I couldn't ask for more.
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