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When… A voice unfolds alongside the movement, speaking about hair — unruly, soft, wild. Small curls, tangled forms, something that resists being smoothed down or contained. It becomes a quiet celebration of what grows freely, of what refuses to behave. Somenthing worn, not hidden. Something carried with presence — like a crown.
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How to dress the dead Two bodies lie still, talking about their morning routines, as if the words can keep them somewhere else. As the conversation continues, "one other slowly dresses the other", layer by layer, in a calm and almost mechanical gesture. In the room, a one-year-old moves in and out of the scene, attempting to help in their own way. The ordinary and the unfamiliar exist side by side — a morning routine slightly displaced, where presence and absence begin to blur.
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Dramaturgy of not having a plan ✨ENTER THE EMPTY STUDO WITH NO PLAN IN YOUR HEAD AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
❓What is the dramaturgy of not having a plan?
Preparation:
- Set up a timer to 1 hour (or more/ less)
- Place empty a4 papers around the empty studio (preferably reusing paper)
- place some pens around too
- have your music device ready in case you want to play something
Practice:
- do whatever you want and write/draw/record important moments and thoughts through out this experience
After:
-if you have any materials after this, take a look at them after some time, and see if that can help you to build a dramaturgy (or any other aspect) of a work that you’re making.
*in the picture is the collage of my ‘dramaturgy of not having a plan’.
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Light face This tear, I was researching how the lights can affect the expresions in the face
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Inanimate lighting experiment The light position is static and the actor is an inanimate puppet. Given these circumstances, the variables available are moving the body in space, thus changing its relationship to the light source and moving the frame to transform the visible composition.
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Light - Trailer SvětLo (WorldLight) explores the relationship between humans and the light of digital screens. It reflects society’s everyday obsession with glowing displays and asks what happens to our bodies and our relationships when we live in a state of constant online connection. This trailer captures my last performance before becoming a mother — a life change that pushed me to step away from devices and spend more time in the physical, real world.
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Starter Tier 14 Starter tier 14
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A GAME OF LIFE / gamemaster interface A screenshot from the gamemaster interface of a participatory performance I am currently developing. By activating scenes, distributing performers across areas, and regulating the flow of instructions, the gamemaster and the underlying codebase shape the conditions under which actions emerge. The performance unfolds through the interaction between system architecture, operators’ decisions, and the avatars’ embodied interpretations of the instructions they receive via headphones. In this sense, dramaturgy becomes procedural and distributed.
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ECHO A ghost produced by the eye itself.
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Working on the dramaturgy of a previous work This was taken during a creation of previous work.
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New material This is footage of new material during research
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Loss by Antony Gormely (2006) Loss by Antony Gormley (2006)
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Lighting research for a previous work This is a picture taken during a lighting research for a previous work of mine
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Reverberations composition in progress
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gaismas deja/ tumsas deja For my individual contribution, I decided to explore how different lightning can be inspiration for the movement. I ended up improvising in the darkest and in the lightest corners of the studio for 10 minutes, after that I had the dance of the light (gaismas deja) and dance if the dark (tumsas deja).
I let the atmosphere of the light/ dark move me, as well as everything I know about them (including stereotypes).
Watching the finished video made me remember my favourite childhood animated movie “Kaķīša dzirnavas” (The Cat’s Mill), specifically the scenes of light and dark dancing. In the film light wins. But should we really make one of them good, and the other one bad? To be fair, I enjoyed dancing the dance of the dark more 😎
Here is link to the film (unfortunately russian voice over version was the only one available on YouTube) : https://youtu.be/IEjrIoMYn2Y?si=uVDiU_82Gr1fEIFC
The dances of light and dark happens:
7:11- 7:36, 27:45 - 28:38, 29:49- 30:56
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Figures Research for a set design, playing with leaving traces and imprints on blank canvas
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A map from previous set ups and audiences Maps of audiences from previous works
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The day before… a hike in Snowdonia A random collection of words and thoughts on audiences and set up
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A breakdown of a previous work An Invitatio Breakdown of content development
(Previous work)
JO FONG
An Invitation…
An enquiry about how to open up live theatre experiences for audiences
The idea of spontaneity, and the value of uncertainty
Try out potential ideas in an open workshop, 40 people
With participants playing audiences
The idea everyone is part of it and in it even if they do not contribute
The idea we, all of us can create something together, in this moment
The idea something will happen
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A duet of SPIN An example of a duet making process from a past work, SPIN
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Resist A map of resistance as a means for modality
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I am from Reyjavik Tech rider for Sonia Hughes’ I am from Reyjavik
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Jo alternative photo selection Is tenderness in public allowed?
Belonging
The motorbike man
Looking after myself is a radical act
Invisibility
The girls watched from a distance
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River Scream Screaming in a river - a picture story
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A map of topics Words for inspiration or rejection or for challenge
Topics as I see them right now.
Take them with you, or not!