A Way of Knowing
I look at your body. I observe
your hands, your type of skin,
your veins, your thick grey hair.
I try to categorize you.
The light goes on. Someone enters the stage. The piece begins. And not only that: a relationship begins. Sometimes, it occurs that you leave the theatre after a show and you actually feel touched; a feeling of being seized that continues for several days and inscribes itself into everyday life. The relationship you opened up to in the theatre space continues…
A Way of Knowing explores the intimate processes that happen between performers and spectators, it seduces the audience to dive into one’s own sensual perception. In A Way of Knowing you are part of it, live, as the situation unravels and your perception sharpens.
In her research for A Way of Knowing the choreographer Marisa Godoy looks at why we react to the movements of an other body, and at why we know or feel how an other body acts. In preparation, she confronted spectators in a one-on-one situation with a solo and used the results of these encounters in her work on the present piece.
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