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Reflection of the first meeting Initial notes after first meeting of the collective. Possible affirmations towards future collaboration.
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Rider for better future The Czech collective agreed to use the format of a theatre rider as a metaphor for the ideal conditions of artists, thereby problematizing the current situation of artists within their social and economic structures and the conditions in which they are able to work. This rider serves as a manifesto for improving the working conditions of dancers.
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Rider for better future - video link The Czech collective agreed to use the format of a theatre rider as a metaphor for the ideal conditions of artists, thereby problematizing the current situation of artists within their social and economic structures and the conditions in which they are able to work. This rider serves as a manifesto for improving the working conditions of dancers.
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Planting a Slovak artist into Czech soil A photo collage depicting the process of a performative political gesture - planting a Slovak artist into a Czech soil. As our Slovakian neighbours are facing a difficult political climate, we support our Slovak co-artist in a performative political gesture that is a metaphor of practicing empathy. We planted him as a small plant into the Czech soil so he can grow here as his own mother soil is not supportive for growth.
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Paper Balls and the Pot This audio recording documents our collective process of selecting themes for Tier 3 – A Week to Think About: Themes.
Within five minutes, we gathered 21 topics on a large sheet, then cut, crumpled, and threw them into a pot to decide playfully — without overthinking or long discussions.
We chose this nonverbal method to avoid consensus and let chance and movement shape our decision.
Two topics landed in the pot and three nearby, forming our final selection (shown in attached photos).
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Paper Balls and the Pot This audio recording documents our collective process of selecting themes for Tier 3 – A Week to Think About: Themes.
Within five minutes, we gathered 21 topics on a large sheet, then cut, crumpled, and threw them into a pot to decide playfully — without overthinking or long discussions.
We chose this nonverbal method to avoid consensus and let chance and movement shape our decision.
Two topics landed in the pot and three nearby, forming our final selection (shown in attached photos).
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Collective Fantasies During the week, we explored the diagram, collective fantasies, and playful interactions with objects. A strong emphasis remained on understanding how group dynamics function and how decisions are made. We dreamed, yet were also grounded in the reality of where we are at this moment, finding unexpected pleasure in creating a video with the objects.
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Collective Fantasies During the week, we explored the diagram, collective fantasies, and playful interactions with objects. A strong emphasis remained on understanding how group dynamics function and how decisions are made. We dreamed, yet were also grounded in the reality of where we are at this moment, finding unexpected pleasure in creating a video with the objects.
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A tech rider as a poetic political manifesto An instruction manual for writing a tech rider as a poetic political statement with a subversive tone and a hint of mischief
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Capturing the process of planting a Slovak artist Description of an action by words and as an instruction for everybody who wants to commit a similar act of kindness and empathy for their colleagues from a different country/environment: capturing a process of a performative political gesture.
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How we work This is how we work. Sharing three topics/material/contexts that we constantly revisit in our work as Partial Uncertainty listed as motifs/topics. We have worked together since 2014 and together we have created over 40 unique performances, interventions, happenings etc. In our work for the stage, we keep returning to material that interests us: language, sustainability and growth and humor.
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haiku no. 2 This is how our decisions are taken sometimes. Do we decide or does the decision comes to us. Are our choses decided for us?
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Send a Postcard from Somewhere You won´t go a photo depicting a moment from our performance
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haiku poem A poem describing a moment from our performance
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Lightplan for onboarding
On- and offboarding is an important element of our future performance.
In this concept, we explore what kind of atmosphere light can create that will prepare the audience to immerse themselves in our performance.
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Source of light What kind of light, where does the light come from, what is the motivation of the light source, what if the researcher themselves is the light.
I proposed an exercise this week: using somatic movement language, some participants wore headlamps with their eyes closed, while others searched with their eyes open. In this way, the light was mainly composed by the source's own bodily movements.
On this day, I also recognized the excitement of the relationship between natural light and artificial light, how they complement each other, how they build each other up, and how they can extinguish each other.
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Text and light This is a photo. This photo is a photo of a video. This video is a performance. This performance was performed with light and text. This text is extreme. This light is extreme too. Performer, light and text are triple extreme together. Thats why they like each other so much. They are friends.
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Are they agents or spies?_12 This is a photo. This photo is a photo of a video. This video is too long. This video is a video of two performers that are captured in a moment before their health goes rapidly down. This moment is precious. This moment is ephemeral. We are different people now.
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Light A still from a study of light and movement.
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Dark Duet A duet between Gwyn Emberton and Anna Seymour exploring what versions of communication and trust and risk taking can emerge in the dark.
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It’s dark
Study - audio description
Entering, alone.
It’s dark.
There is an aperture of light in the corner and a sign to the left of the room that has the words, “no despair”.
dark,
very, very dark,
profiles
three bodies. holding, tapping
tap, tap
Back on back, surrendering, trusting
Corridors of light
A cross of light, becomes a cradle for where the sounds of tussling and giggling come from
The shuffling of bodies,
Voices,
Entangled,
Dragging and vibrating
The light flickers and shakes
The light is disappearing,
Darkness revealing different versions of ourselves, permission for expression, permission for freedom
The tones of the room feel pressured, inescapable,
Palms press together, grab and clasp,
eyes to eyes,
silhouettes,
shadows,
Hands,
violent,
The rest of the room drops away,
The release, with no more light,
Darkness invoking ways of trust, ways to be together, ways to take risks
Bringing us closer to our senses and sensations.
The sensation of privacy and liberation.
It’s the opposite of office lights, designed to be efficient, alert, ready to work, in full view
The audience sits in the darkness, embracing the softness and mystery that comes with the darkness.
We receive fragments of bodies, landscapes, the walls around the room light up, showing the black walls.
As humans we are drawn to light and movement.
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Lights Iteration Process
A description of our lighting setup and creative process for a performance iteration, focusing on the use of overhead grid lights, floor-based LED sources, programmable LED tubes, and manual plug-in activation to create texture, contrast, and movement. The audio reflects on how light functions both as illumination and as a visible installation element that interacts with performer movement.
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Latvian collective contribution- Illuminating peat
This is Latvian collective’s contribution for week 13 about light and text, describing how we are planning to use light and text in the opening scene of our future performance where peat becomes the main character.
Context:
A few words about peat.
One of the most frequent ecological catastrophes in the Baltic region is peat fires — slow, subterranean smouldering that can spread across many hectares for months. These fires are almost impossible to extinguish by human means. They gradually destroy a valuable local resource that takes thousands of years to form, releasing massive amounts of carbon, damaging ecosystems, and suffocating life above the ground.
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Shadow my love Duet of two bodies exploring shadow and movement. Light is a dramaturg itself. Selecting the moment worth showing and experiencing
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Light in Light Light in Light is an exploration of light as both material and metaphor. Light revealing light. Light moving inside light. Something that feels simple, but is impossible to fully define.
In this work, light is never stable. It travels, reflects, fractures, and returns. Through mirrors held by the dancer, light becomes multiplied — constantly shifting its direction, its intensity, its meaning. What we see is never one image, but many moments happening at the same time.
The mirror does not only reflect the dancer; it reflects the space, the audience, the movement, and the world around it. Light passes through bodies, surfaces, and gaps, creating unexpected geometries and temporary realities. Nothing stays fixed. Everything is always becoming something else.
The phrase Light in Light carries many references. For each person, it can mean something different — perception, connection, presence, time, energy. Yet these interpretations often overlap, because light is something we all exist within. It surrounds us, shapes us, and moves through us, whether we notice it or not.
In the video, the dancer becomes both carrier and transformer of light. The body does not control the light, nor does the light dominate the body — they coexist, influencing each other moment by moment. What emerges is a fragile balance between visibility and disappearance, clarity and distortion.
Light in Light invites the viewer to notice how everything around us is already in motion, already connected, already reflecting something else. It asks us not to search for a single meaning, but to stay inside the experience — where light meets light, and something new briefly appears.