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| Ricardo Puccetti of LUME Teatro – with wings |
So, the workshop season is underway, with Raquel’s course
already on day three, and LUME now gearing up for the start of the big workshop
cum performance project Abre-Alas, which begins tomorrow (Friday 1 February)
and runs until the first day of Carnival on 8 February. It’ll be led by Ricardo
Puccetti, in collaboration with the other LUME actors.
Taking advantage of the quiet before the storm, I spent a
very pleasant evening yesterday at the home of Ricardo and Naomi, and apart
from eating salad faces (made by eldest daughter Noa) and stir-fry (made by
Naomi) – all washed down with a bottle of vinho tinto – there was plenty of
chat, some of it work-related!
I got to hear about an exciting new collaboration between
LUME, Australian company Legs On The Wall, and Conflux, the Scottish
organisation dedicated to producing and promoting contemporary circus and
street arts. These three groups, and composer Stephen Deazley (Scotland), are
coming together to develop ‘an ambitious new performance project to be presented
on rooftops across the globe’. The work, called PERCH, will be created in a
series of residencies in Brazil, Australia and Scotland. In fact, work has
started, with the partners gathering at Conflux's annual festival SURGE in July
2012. In 2013, the other partners will come to work with LUME here in Brazil,
and LUME will travel to Australia. The PERCH collaborators will finally come together in Glasgow (Scotland) in July 2014 for a grand finale of the project.
And so what then emerged is that Ricardo and the rest of the
LUME company have been reflecting upon ways that the research and development
process for PERCH can be intertwined in some way with the Abre-Alas project –
those taking part in Abre-Alas will learn more soon!
Regardless, it would be great to involve as wide a group as
possible in the exploration of ideas and inspirations for PERCH. So look out
here and elsewhere for PERCH-related tasks, which will emerge over the coming
week!
To kick-start the PERCH associations, here are a few
definitions. It can be a noun or a verb.
As a noun:
· A
rod or branch serving as a roost for a bird.
· An
elevated place for resting or sitting.
· A
position that is secure, advantageous, or prominent.
· A
pole, stick, or rod.
As a verb:
· To
alight or rest on a perch: roost: ‘A raven perched high in the pine.’
· To
stand, sit, or rest on an elevated place or position.
· To place on or as if on a perch: ‘The
child perched the glass on the edge of the counter.’
So, thinking caps on… And feel free to respond here, or on the Facebook page for Abre-Alas.
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PERCH / Abre Alas: An English bird-related text courtesy of my friend Jane Pitt:
ReplyDeleteVoyage of Maildun, CHAPTER XIX: THE ISLE OF SPEAKING BIRDS
One night, soon after leaving this, they heard in the distance, towards the north-east, a confused murmur of voices, as if from a great number of persons singing psalms. They followed the direction of the sound, in order to learn from what it proceeded; and at noon the next day, they came in view of an island, very hilly and lofty. It was full of birds, some black, some brown, and some speckled, who were all shouting and speaking with human voices; and it was from them that the great clamour came.