Day 15. A verly long but also very rewarding day in the archives (including the body as archive!). More will follow when I have digested the findings. When waiting, some late Friday scenographic candy:
Day 14. Have not yet read this book, but the cover, the gnomes in space, is so ...[no words really]...that I have to share this. This is the link: https://www.press.uchicago.edu/.../distribu.../P/bo31274453.html. The book is about, and I quote the irresistable facebook coment, "... these ambassadors of uselessness, who will forever be 'slow racing'...
Day 13. Lucky day. Loved digging into The Routledge Companion to Scenography (2018). Such a relief to read something updated and really considered. And, hugely important these days: the companion is accessible online without too much fuss. Now, back to reading!
Day 12. Long day in the office. Have been reading Swedish theatre histories for many hours today. Often produced by the same or related theatre historians. I cannot keep wondering why there is such a strange lack of scenographic interest in the books. Or: if there is an interest, it can be negative, even mean, and for certain modernist biased....
Day 11. I have a friend with whom I exchange books. She recently gave me two ones with yellow covers. First I read Charlotte Perkins Gilman, later Stetson's (1860-1935) short story The Yellow Wallpaper (1982) in Swedish translation. As the titel suggests a yellow wallpaper is the protagonist, a truly scenographic agent, in full force. A woman is...
Day 10. Sunday evening. I am pondering what I discovered Friday afternoon in the media archive: a televised dance program from 1969, featuring some thrilling dance and scenographic interactions.
Day 9. Brought a friend along to experience "Vågar vi blunda" (Do we dare to close our eyes) a dance-music-scenography event created by Carmen Olsson (dance and choreography), Åsa Herrgård (scenography) and Harald Svensson (music) as well as the co-creatice audience. I was particularly taken by the relationship between movement in scenographic...
Day 8. In May 2018 Scott Palmer kindly sent me his book Light: Readings in Theatre Practice (Palgrave Mavmillan 2013) and I sent him our Dream-Playing Across Borders anthology (2016). We are talking about real post here, books than yoy can hold on to. I very much enjoyed reading Light, found it immensely useful and inspiering. Will enter...
Day 7. Long day at work. After: walking the street holding three red roses, wrapped in a moss green paper, birthday card and all. Street truly transformed. Love the theory (admit that I have moved this here from yesterday's blog) that facilitates putting words on such scenographic events:
Day 6. I attended a very scenographic dance performance posing questions about dancing bodies and activation of space. Or more specifically "What is a wall", to quote the abfab dancer Luisa Denward who by way of musical-diva-fringe-actions took some of us (audience members) to the performance space. In situ, choreographer Gun Lund's dancers and a...