gaze

“In order to begin doing theatre, you have to hear silence in yourself.”

• Anatoly Vasiliev

See and be seen

Ilkhom, Tashkent, 2023

I understood I exist the moment I recognized myself in the mirror.

I understand how to decipher another’s existence by looking into their eyes.

SILENCE

We have to learn how to communicate using our eyes. The whole essence of our being is communicated from the bottom of those two wells, fixed in the front of our face.

Decoding what we send and receive through the eyes has a resounding effect on presence and authenticates subtle and dynamic material time and time again.

ANTIGAMES

I think it’s useful to switch between dynamic and subtle communication as we tune to a room and each other. When one is asked to step outside their comfort zone and interact with others, a lot can come out of them.

Our task is to refine what comes out and prepare it to be intersubjective (mutually understood). We’ll engage in various forms of competition getting to end of which will always be impossible, and no one will ever win. That is, everyone always wins and anything seems possible. Winning an antigame serves a goal beyond the satisfaction of saying we’re all the best. I think of it as undressing the unseen between bodies.

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