WAR Group C reaction to danca pessoal

Hey all! We're back, today it's just Martin and Jo. We had more fun looking at some of the postings, and here are some thoughts we wanted to share on David's key word.

Jo- I'm coming to this from an acting (particularly movement based) and dance background. The videos of the inspiration (butoh, push pull, Grotowski) were things familiar to me. It was nice to see how these came together in the performances of the LUME theatre. What I found intriguing was how this danca pessoal was not originally meant to be a performance style. These are exercises that help performers (well, anyone, really) learn how to access their bodies, to engage in unfamiliar movement patters, to possess qualities of control and specificity in their movements, and how to utilize this in performance to communicate things to an audience. I would love to hear more of the story of the LUME theatre and see how this developed into the performances. Did the story come first, and elements of the dance style were used to give life to the piece? Or did they want to turn these exercises into a performance style and this is what came about?

Martin - Coming from a total different background (social urbanism),the "danza pessoal" took me to the opposite, to collective (unaware) dances. Can we think of our daily trips as "choreographies" in a broader sense / space?
Specially the part of the coat dressed performers running in place, took me automatically to Buenos Aires` rush hour, with thousands of daytrippers "travelling without (really) moving".

This might be a funny example of somebody making art of it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4nS6ke6gms