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Very short post - more anon...

We showed a few excerpts from TALK SHOW last night at the Dance Network's Stepping Stones. Fair number of people came despite the heat and the fact that it was Sunday night.

Comments and reflections
- the Capital I/eye piece had the most reactions, not surprisingly but rather surprisingly (for me anyway) the interpretation of the relationship between me and the eye was different. People felt I was avoiding it, not being subjected to it. That's the thing when neither of us can actually see the work, we can't actually read the full image.
- comedy - well, we can certainly make people laugh. The Jay Leno/Brad Pitt piece was appreciated - Ken noted that our movement choices became more and more habitual as we had more difficulties with the text.
- comedy again. Alain felt like there was also a lot of comedy in the manipulation score (E has her eyes shut and I'm moving her about the space - she gradually takes on more autonomy with her eyes still shut - becomes small power struggle). Also others noted that the power dynamics weren't cut and dried, that the agreement of joining the game gives E equal power.

ok - more later...