With Adva Zakai

How to Spell a Piece is a fifty-minute duo piece by choreographer Adva Zakai that Adva and I developed and perform together. Here is a text about the piece:

Imagine a machine that generates metaphors artificially and arbitrarily, movements and words being the fuel that activates this device. Once the mechanism is set in motion, movement and words are brought together in explicit combinations, creating the trail from which stories simply pop out. Just when it seems that the logic of a plot unravels, new directions and stories emerge and you might find yourself re-evaluating what was told before.

In How to Spell a Piece, metaphors and images – the raw material, detached from context or content – form the building blocks of a narrative that is not premeditated. The inclination of a story fills in the gaps between these metaphors and images. How to Spell a Piece is not looking for a new narrative, but rather a new way of creating one.

We have performed the work at:
Working Title Festival - De Pianofabriek kunstenwerkplaats (Brussels, December 5,6)
kc nOna - nO new artists (Mechelen, March 2009)
STUK kunstencentrum - Festival Taste (Leuven, April 2009)
nagib festival (Maribor, September 2009)