Thursday, September 14, 2006

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Choreographies. Normally not one of the words that attract me very much. If someone talked about choreographies I thought about annoying musical scenes or boring underwater ballet.
Erik and Magnus from the "unsworn" taught me how fascinating choreographies can be. A crossing in Tokyos business district Shibuya becomes a stage, every two minutes when hundreds of people start walking. There are many more possibilities, of course the Nazis had their mass coreographies and nowadays treadmills are part of cool coreographies in hilarious music videos. Unsworn also showed us own choreographies, a great idea was the "Orgmobile", an "human powered vehicle" consisting of eight people carrying another dude.
To slow down a bit we were invited to the "Södergatan Slowfox": Walk 30 minutes on a track you´d normally need only three minutes for, don´t talk and, if 100 others do the same, it lookes just like a zombie film shooting.
That way prepared we had to think about our third assignment: "In the city - the ballet". We are the directors and the actors at the same time. In groups we had to create parts of tomorrows "ballet" and all of us will act together on the whole course. Our idea: Standing and throwing a paper plane. If 100 people do that at the same time it could be an interesting impression. Even when we tried it in a group of eight, people were staring at us and took pictures. That´s our part, one out of nine. Let´s dance tomorrow.

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