24 MARCH 2009 - DAY 2 KEYWORDS

In the greyzones between choreography and meeting and the fundamental contradictions between both, Sonke, Zeenath, Athena and Louise have identified a few key concepts to scout the possibility to create an overlap between both:

DELAY - referring to the different temporal structure of choreography (assuming some kind of delay) and meeting (existing in the immediate moment)

SUSPENSION and COLLAPSE - looking at collapse, desruption, deconstruction as an accidental space which enables meeting - cfr the metaphor of the two collapsing buildings that in Kleist's novella enables Jeromino to escape from his prison cell

MUTUAL AWARENESS and PRESENCE - when looking at conditions of meetings, some kind of awareness of the exchange is required, whether it is in the monent itself or in retrospect.

CHANGE and SHIFT - do meetings enable change or would shift - as in a subtle reconfiguration of thought or practice - be a more appropriate way to define the outcome of meeting?

CHOREOGRAPHY - and the challenge to write the immediacy of a meeting through a choreography shifting borders between audience and performer