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beauty and courage

12/30/2018

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Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
Rilke
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Write to write to right to rite to write to wright

8/3/2018

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I do not write to keep. I write to feel. I write to touch the body of the instant  with the tips of the words.
Hélène Cixous

I love this quote and it explains to me why I need to have so many journals and notebooks around me!

It reminds me of the distinction I learnt whilst studying drama at Exeter University which was heavily influenced by studio based practice and ensemble techniques, and where we were taught to constantly ask “Why theatre?” - in other words what does it do that another art form does not.


Therefore, why do we say “playwright” and not “play-write”? 
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It is as if a playwright (distinct from a play-write), is someone developing their work in a process that is as much a physical process (like a wheel-wright) as an intellectual one.

These are questions that have led my continuous artistic search to the borders of different art forms (dance theatre, physical theatre, performance art, martial arts in relation to performance etc) including to most recently an exploration in the arena of opera and experimental music in collaborations with Argentinean composer Oscar Edelstein as both a vocalist and video maker.

Edelstein's concept of "Acoustic Theatre" raises the question of sound in space. It is question that was explored
in the early acoustic experiments of the cathedral builders and Venetian masters (think whispering galleries and cathedrals constructed to be apt for choirs), up to references of the to the 3D space of German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen whose piece "Gruppen" requiring three conductors and three orchestras was recently performed in the Turbine Gallery at Tate Modern by London Symphony Orchestra directed by Simon Rattle), passing through Gustav Mahler, Richard Wagner, Claude Debussy, Arnold Schönberg, Geörgy Ligetti and Luigi Nono. 

With Acoustic Theatre, Edelstein is collaborating with physicists in Argentina to create a new kind of space for the experiencing of sound. He is working in depth with Manuel Eguía (Physicist / Acoustic Researcher) who is an Associate Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes in Buenos Aires and a member of CONICET (National Science Council) whose background is in Complex Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics and Theoretical Neuroscience. Together they are working with Sonic Crystals in an novel approach to sound in space.

There is a long history of composers working in an interdisciplinary contexts that border with art, architecture, theatre and dance.  Equally, in recent years artists have taken up this idea of sound in space and begun experimenting with the borders of sound.

So for me Hélène Cixous - professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician - captures that implausible aspect of the process of putting into words, and the need to physicalise the out of reach.

Her gift is to remind us of deeper parts of ourselves as she eludes to that special finding of what is not there - that just because.


 N.B. Cixous is best known for her article '' The Laugh of the Medusa.''

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Copyright © Deborah Claire Procter 2018 Clear Insight Productions, All rights reserved.
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Terry Gilliam - Lesson and anti-lessons in life and film

6/26/2016

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The news around the world is a whirl wind. We search for a horizontals that seems it will  take us forever to re-find.  In this light whilst leafing through old journals I found an inspiring quote from the determined British film-maker Terry Gilliam who has seen his fair share of up and downs, and the twists of outrageous fortune.

Read it to take your mind back to its creative problem solving centre... 

As a child, I always drew funny creatures, funny characters. But I think the trick is not to grow up, not to learn to be an adult. And if you can maintain the kind of imagination you all had when you were babies, you would all be wonderful filmmakers. But the world tries to make you grow up, to stop imagining, stop fantasizing, stop playing in your mind. And I’ve worked hard to not let the world educate me.
​Terry Gilliam
Whole article: Ten Lessons on Filmmaking From Terry Gilliam
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    I'm from Cardiff, Wales and I split my time between Buenos Aires and Aberystwyth  (a tiny Welsh coastal town).  I founded Clear Insight Productions in 2002 to make original live performance and events; and with the hope  of finding "clear insight. or clarity, insight and productivity." In that spirit I share news about my own productions, those of colleagues, or ones that I find along the road.

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