TTT meeting Brussels, Juliana Neves class , June 5, 2013

Juliana Neves proposed near the end of her class that one part of the group could start to make a document by two (being a short choreography) about the previous experience where we were all guided from level 1 to 5, evolving from extreme peace to extreme nervosity and hatred and reversing the process. The other part of the group could document that process of exchange and creation… I was evolved in the second group; in documenting the making of a choreography by a couple (as a document by itself).

I feel generally that I am more easily drawn to document small, fluctuating and subjective fragments. These documents show small things that were fascinating me while observing and documenting Louise Chardon and Erika Faccini making a short choreography about their previous experience.

When I started filming I experienced boundaries of the camera frame. After that I started drawing and I experienced an extra dimension in documenting. Concretely, I could more organically follow repetition in movement and energy flows through the bodies that were fascinating me, by embodying my interests through my own hand moving along while holding a pencil above a piece of paper. You find the drawing attached below…

After I made the drawing I wanted to film again and try integrate the experience I had while drawing. You find a little extract attached…

I’ve been questioning a lot if such a small, vulnerable documents wouldn’t get lost in this big pool of Idocs…  Therefore I quote what Anouk Llaurens told me during the interview: “The very subjective point of view is a very valuable way of documenting anything and a very valuable thing to share. Because your perspective, you’re the only one to have it and that’s what I like about it. Because subjectivity is like… nobody will do it the same, nobody will see it the same, so to share what you see, what you experience in your very personal way is a very valuable gift to anyone.”
The interview is attached to this Idoc.

While trying to explain my experience in an Idoc I realize I put more logic in my process of documenting than I experienced during that day…
This reminds me of Joachim Fest (book: "Ich Nicht"). People usually add strategies when they start to tell about the past, they give themselves a position, they try to handle reality and their past and simplify facts. In other words: retroversion narratives are constructed. Being not bad in itself at all but with representations alone it is very difficult to explain what really happened. How to talk in pluralities? How to show a differed process of an experience/ a reality that is complex?  

Having said that, I hope these documents can be (seen as) parts of a polyphonic experience.

TTT stands for Teaching The Teachers . It is an initiative from Jardin d'Europe which aims at giving an answer to a European dance scene in need of new teaching and training methods in the field of Contemporary Dance, taking into account the various forms enriching dance creation nowadays, such as dramaturgy, scenography, lighting, visual arts practices, transforming movement into film/image, dance photography. Respective activities e.g. workshops, lasting each of them about ten days - are taking place at the relevant intiatives/venues of the participating co-organisers (Ultima Vez for Brussels
).