Caroline Sabin talks about her new dance piece Lifedeathlife and how rehearsals are progressing.
Well, the lovely marketing folk came, saw, ate muffins and left. I’m grateful they took the time to come (hence the muffin provision) and some of them had travelled a fair way to make it. Others had simply wandered down the corridor – but I’m grateful all the same. The response was positive, with some laughter in the right places and one or two tears. A good result, I felt, for an unlit daytime showing.
It was a hot day and we were pushed hard. The rehearsal video we’ve posted seems to be the quieter sections, but there’s a portion in the middle of the piece where the tone becomes dark, raw and anarchic and stretches both of us to the limits of our stamina. I’m glad I started running after Christmas.
Today has been a music day, and so a much needed day off for Lara. I’ve been listening to a lot of Trent Reznor’s non vocal work, and frankly I think the man is a genius. I’m keeping the music palette simple, to avoid that i-pod feel, and with Gerald downloading such delights as the sound of space debris entering the atmosphere of Jupiter (just amazing) I think I’ll be happy with the result. Other aural delights include the sound of horses eating (I’m calling in a favour from the riding school in Pontcanna Fields where I used to work between Earthfall tours) and the meltingly delicious strings of another musical genius, Mr Arvo Part.
Listening to skilful, heartfelt music always restores my faith in us as a species. The jewels composers create just blow me away. The tag line for this show is ‘Infinity. Mortality. Jokes about your Mum.’ A simpler by line emerged today,
Life is amazing…and really hard…but amazing.
Thanks for reading,
Wishing you more wonder and less hardship,
Caroline.
You can find out more about the show and book tickets here.
Tags: Caroline Sabin, Chapter, chapter arts centre, dance, Gerald Tyler, lifedeathlife, theatre
