Performance - Day 29

The penultimate day! We cannot believe that it is day 29! Once again we had another successful performance today despite a delayed set up due to some workmen parking their truck in the middle of our square and more of those blue bicycles back again!

We also managed to catch up with Guildhall composers Ed and Michail who told us their thoughts on last night's concert.

Chatting with some men who are regulars at Solo 30x30:

Associate Projects - Hugo Glendinning Upate 3

In my visits 6 and 7 to Fortier's Solo 30x30 I decided to stop looking too hard for the 'subliminal' choreography and see what else might be happening. Interestingly what emerged was a series of duets with the passing or watching audience. At one moment a small boy standing up on the 'balcony' mirrors PAF's movements exactly, consciously and somewhat ironically joining the dance. Then there is a picture in which PAF seems - through some act of remote physical will - to be forcing a man to lift his two black bags, to turn a corner and leave the frame. Meanwhile in the same picture another figure joins this gesture with a move towards the performance that completes a circle of movement initiated by Fortier's gesture. Another very straight forward image shows a woman's fear or maybe disgust as Fortier moves into the most violent part of his choreography with chopping movements of the hands accompanied by sharp and audible exhaling. Her body leans away from the performance making it a part of the subliminal choreography that I have been looking for all along, albeit through an unconscious act of aversion rather than inclusion. I like the pictures from these two visits a lot, I have also realised that the panoramic format which I have been looking at is totally appropriate for what I am doing and that using just a 50mm lens gives a more honest view of Fortier's work in relation to the passing people.

Hugo captures Solo 30x30

Guildhall Concert

The Associated Project by Guildhall School of Music and Drama students premiered at Bishopsgate Institute last night. Seven composition students worked on six original compositions over the last month inspired by Solo 30x30. The pieces were written for percussion instruments.

This is the first associated project of Solo 30x30 to involve music, and Paul-André chose not to hear the music until he stepped into the space and began to dance.

Unlike a more traditional concert experience, the audience was able to sit around the performance space - some chose chairs, others sat on the floor - and the musicians from Sankorfa were situated in each corner of the performance space. It was a wonderful concert, and both the composition students, and Paul-André were extremely pleased they were able to conclude the project in this way.