Instead of trying to capture the dance directly, I searched for the traces a dance leaves behind: traces in space, on the performer’s body, in the performer’s and the audience’s conscious and subconscious recollection of the performance. Since a direct approach to the documentation of the performance is rendered impossible and possibly unethical, I aimed to make an archive of “what exists outside or beyond or after live performance itself -things surrounding, about, reflecting upon and re-presenting performance in one form or another. Things that are not performance, but which allow us to see and say something about performance.

To find those traces, I used as many methods of recording and reflection as possible:

The performance was filmed by a static and a moving camera,

 

a camera filming the faces of two audience members while they were watching,

 

I kept a dance journal reflecting throughout the whole process and kept records of bruises, cuts and floorburns resulting from the dance,

 

a group of creatives were invited to respond to the dance,

each within their own medium and in different timings after the performance (drawing, poetry, performance, dance, music, video art, photography etc.)

 

interviewing some of the witnesses to get an understanding of their experience.

 

Some of those responses were used directly, others were absorbed, translated and/or transformed into Blue-Purple, Purple-Blue.

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