MAKING WAVES

Here is just a little patchwork of the imagery, poetry and some snapshots of my wanderings over the last two months leading into They Call Me Nina, in London, Sydney and Lima.

Miraflores, Lima

Claire, Valeria and Cat in Barranco, Lima

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness had genius, power and magic in it! 

-Goethe

I finally finished One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“It rained for four years, eleven months and two days.  There were periods of drizzle during which everyone put on his full dress and a convalescent look to celebrate the clearing but people still grew accustomed to interpret the pauses as a sign of redoubled rain…

The air was so damp that fish could have come in through the doors and swum out the windows, floating through the atmosphere in the rooms.”

I spent many hours reading in Jack’s cafe, Cuzco

A day at Museo Larco (Lima) with Cat

I saw an outstanding production of Waiting for Godot (by Samuel Beckett) in Sydney.  These lines stuck in my head for some reason…

VLADIMIR:

So much the better, so much the better. (Pause.) What was it you wanted to know?

ESTRAGON:

I’ve forgotten. (Chews.) That’s what annoys me. (He looks at the carrot appreciatively, dangles it between finger and thumb.) I’ll never forget this carrot. (He sucks the end of it meditatively.)

Pacific Ocean Sydney

Pacific Ocean Lima

The Divided Unity by Brett Whiteley

In Opposition by Rebecca Elson

One moon between us,

Two seasons,

What else?

A few stars,

No wind.

In these moments

When we both walk,

How odd,

How we stand,

The soles of our feet

Touching

Almost

Only the planet’s breadth.

Walking in Cuzco, so high in the mountains where the air is thin (28% less oxygen). So much natural beauty and dramatic skies. It feel like the end of the earth.

I love this quote from The Choreographers Handbook by Jonathan Burrows on research, dramaturgy and curiosity. He hits the nail on the head.

Research is whatever you need.  It’s as likely to be about remembering something you do know, as about finding out something you don’t.

For instance, what made you interested in the first place?

What appears obvious to you (it may not be obvious to anybody else)?

What are you thinking about anyway?

What are you going to do anyway?

What are you reading, thinking, watching doing, that you don’t know why you’re doing it?

It’s all right to not know why you are doing something.