Mind my Mind
PERFORMANCE / CREATION 2020
Concept, Chorégraphie & Performance : Clara Grosjean
Lumières : Laura Moura Costa & MTD Students
Photographies : Alberto Quirico
Mind my Mind
starting from the mind
breaks the body
into many little pieces
bones as landscapes
skull as the moon
crumbs of thoughts
perfectly preserved like fossils
listen below the surface
everything is already there
earthquake under the skull
breaks the body
hack the unconscious
freeze your memories
before they melt
your thoughts will disappear in a second
what will remain?
staying alive
breaks the body
so grab your flesh
and grab your mind
before they flee away
“An attempt to research the relationship between brain, body and soul, but more specifically on the ideas of memory loss and confusion of thoughts, related to Alzheimer disease. A brain sculpture, made of brown and red ropes, is floating in front of the audience. As I start my performance with my head into the brain, I step out in order to perform physically the inner thoughts processing in the brain. The ropes of the brain suggest the messiness, the interconnectivity, and the complexity of our thought process. The choreographic material evokes a body that little by little forgets its memories and loose its bearings, and has difficulty organising thoughts, thinking logically or completing familiar tasks. After trying different choreographic scores, I concluded that it was more interesting when I was forgetting for real what was coming next, or when I was not able to perform the movement because of an excess of information, instead of faking the memory loss and acting the confusion.”
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Supported by Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (AHK)