A dream of touch when touch is gone
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i’m wondering if with this presentation
if there’s a way
to create something that at least
symbolically or physic visually and
physically
brings people on this journey to the
idea that
one of the moments of hope is that we
can be in contact again
have that most human of human
experiences
because i think quite frankly right now
to see
an embrace on something that’s made in
september
is almost a revolutionary act and so
one of the things i’m trying to think
about um practically
is how do we do that safely you know do
i have
two company members and is it possible
for me to work with university of
minnesota experts
and specialists to get the appropriate
testing
so that we can actually do this in a way
that doesn’t endanger them
how can we figure out ways to let you
guys
make art in a safe way so that it really
really needs to happen
and i think as carl and i have been
talking that the university of minnesota
is in a really unique position to help
make that happen
and you’ve got such a incredible
amazing director in carl who’s thinking
so coolly outside of the box that
i think we can do some really
interesting stuff together right now
we’re looking at is this idea
of a a period of self quarantining
right before an intensive and then a
test a testing rate before that
intensive
then the intensive would happen um
between october
um in the week leading up to october
13th september 13th sorry
and um but then we would be tested on
the friday
before the shoot day just to make sure
that everything was in good order
and then we go we would have one more
day of rehearsal on
saturday and then we’d be into the shoot
quarantined
in the italian 40 days no one’s looking
at doing a 40 day thing here so it’s
even
it’s almost the wrong term to use so i
think like social isolation
or or maybe like being smart
like super smart and super careful might
be even a better way of like phrasing it
so that you know your your i mean let’s
face it
you can’t go to social gatherings it’s
probably the single best thing to say
like you just for that five seven days
you just can’t get together with groups
of people you can’t go to a bar
you can’t do things you can’t go don’t
go to lake minnetonka to a
flotilla of speed boats you know i mean
it’s just like
anything that seems like if it strikes
you like ooh that seems kind of like a
risky
thing to do you can’t do that it’s you
know close proximity
a long period of time no one wearing
masks
i mean it just right it just sort of
intuitively makes sense like how people
are getting this you know for the most
part
would it be worth then um if we did do a
test also on tuesday
to wait until we got those results so
we’ve had two days together in the
studio working
and we just we just still haven’t done
the physical contact
part because there are a lot of things
that we want to do without physical
contact
and then after that test then we would
still have two to three days
in some ways i like the the arc of that
because it just gets us back together
finding our
connection as a community and in some
ways also has this sense of falling
towards touch
so we’ve done you know like the first
two and a half
days of intensive we’re about to start
getting into
touch and sharing weight and things like
that
what what do you see that protocol as
like you know
walk it walk us through it the pretty
simple protocol is just like mask off
wash your hands and dance so we’re in
the intensive period
and you’re still in this mindfulness
around self quarantining
we’re we we’re we’re looking at these
layers of testing which sounds like we
might even look
now at three layers of it but you know
at least two
um and this idea of
working on non-contact material in the
first couple
days and then moving towards the contact
material
when we go to the shoot itself
the big variable is now we’re bringing
in a camera crew
that that camera crew needs to be
thinking about self quarantining
as they enter the enter the time
everything that john has talked about
nothing changes except
now every time we film
there aren’t masks on unless masks are
being asked for
but if you’re not in the chute you’re
masked up if you’re not in the chute
you make sure before you enter a shoot a
shoot that you’re washing your hands
john um thank you um thank you so much
really try something that is distinctly
new i think it may have
said world is calm so we’re making a ted
film and that’s exciting
all right how did it feel to see the
actual dancers touching john
looking at
to see what our process has allowed us
to do
i mean to see a group of 10 people
catching one person falling out of
space you know without masks and gloves
really gets at what we’re trying to find
so they look
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yeah and it was so amazing on thursday
when we first started touching
there were literally three or four
people just spontaneously
um burst into tears and it was
you know it was it was just but yeah
it was a moment that just this emotional
pop
that just changed so imagine if theater
companies and dance companies and
orchestras
at least the smaller ensembles could
start to figure out a way of doing this
it’s huge and we need this i mean we as
non-artists
need you to be you know making your art
again and getting on stage and sharing
it with us on social media and other
other
venues
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