In “The Outer Space” Marita Schwanke is working with the idea of the sea, a sea of thoughts and feelings floating.
She works with states of constant change that empazise the "inbetween".
The body work is based on postures and their connections, with a deep gaze connection and an invitation to surrender to silence and observation. Marita grounds her movements on principles of the Alexander Technique, Kinesthetic Awareness and Fascia, with the idea to use in movement what is already there and let go of what is not necessary. Her suggestion is to find poetry in simplicity.
The inspiration for this solo came from a life performance of Anna von Hausswolff’s “All thoughts fly” an album consisting of organ pieces for six hands of which she integrated 2 of the music pieces into her solo.
This solo is about you. It is about me. It is about me and you. It is about us.
When we meet we see each other and when we see each other, we meet.
I look into your eyes and you look into mine, quietly and honestly.
Once we get to know someone, the eyes could tell you everything. They might start to speak more than anything else. Through them we can see, feel and maybe know. We then have the choice to shut them, to change them or to open them and let them be.
By meeting each other through our eyes we start a conversation, we are communicating and we are connecting, let this be the start of something, or simply an encounter.
Deep waters. Still waters.
Furious waters. Wide waters.
Long waters, mysterious waters.
Inexplicable, uncontrollable,
unbegreifbar, enigmatic.
But fantastic.
Honest and pure. Patient and loving.
And we swim.
We swim through and we breathe
and we breathe and we be.
You, and me. - Marita Schwanke
Credits:
Concept and Performance: Marita Schwanke
Music: Anna van Hausswolff, “All thoughts fly”: Theater of nature; Outside the gate (For Bruna)
Mentor: Marie Goudot
Outside eye: Adem Ouhaibia