Le site de Sarma:
http://sarma.be
Laboratory for dramaturgy, criticism, research and creation.
In 2013-14, Sarma and Etcetera develop a joint editorial trajectory in which print and online publishing are complementary. Sarma offers online texts in dialogue with the Etcetera issues. Background and analysis, informal documents and multilingual collections, oral and multimodal contributions create a larger context that can nurture the artistic field, its discourses and reflection.
Linked to an essay by Gerald Siegmund on the recent work of William Forsythe (inEtcetera), Sarma publishes three essays by dancers on their collaboration with Forsythe within the Ballett Frankfurt. The texts appeared earlier in German in Gerald Siegmund’s monograph William Forsythe: Denken in Bewegung (Henschel Verlag Berlin, 2004). About these texts, Siegmund writes: “Forsythe underscores the ability of dancers to describe their own actions, to make themselves aware, through the use of verbal language, of what they’re doing, as well as how and why. The method of description is a first step towards the literacy and emancipation of the dancer, a step away from the dependency to being merely an executive instrument in service of an almighty choreographer.”
Thomas McManus – Inside Enemy
What goes on in the mind and body of a dancer during a virtuoso solo passage in a ballet? Mc Manus describes the fast part of Forsythe’s Enemy in the Figure (1989) from an internal point of view.
Link to the essay.
Dana Caspersen – The Body is Thinking: Form, vision, discipline and dancing
The creation of imaginary bodies requires a specific training and gaze of the dancer. Caspersen discusses the influence of Forsythe’s work on her view on her body. This text will be available by 27th of March 2014 on sarma.be.
Prue Lang – Thinking, Motion and Language
Woolf Phrase (2001) translates literary techniques such as the interior monologue into physical techniques of self-observation. Lang explores a genealogy of corporeal and spatial thinking in Forsythe’s work.
Link to the essay.
Daniel Linehan
On the occasion of Daniel Linehan’s book A No Can Make Space (reviewed by Jeroen Peeters in Etcetera), Sarma presents a few texts by the choreographer written during creation processes.
• Daniel Linehan, ‘Gaze is a Gap is a Ghost. A self-interview’ (2012)
Link to `Gaze is a Gap is a Ghost. A self-interview’
• Daniel Linehan, ‘Doing While Doing: Transcript from memory’ (2012)
Link to ‘Doing While Doing: Transcript from memory’
• Daniel Linehan, ‘Thinking about watching and dancing a choreography’ (2013)
Link to `Thinking about watching and dancing a choreography´