DURATION / FATIGUE / BREAKING POINTS

DURATION / FATIGUE / BREAKING POINTS

DURATION

Time is active material.

It changes:

• bodily capacity;
• attention;
• sensation;
• judgment;
• relation;
• audience perception.

FATIGUE

Fatigue can reveal:

• weight;
• breath;
• hesitation;
• micro-variation;
• unplanned behaviour;
• altered pleasure.

Fatigue is information.

It is not automatically artistic value.

MATERIAL / PERFORMER DISTINCTION

Ask:

• Is the material exhausted?
• Am I exhausted?
• Are both exhausted?
• Does the material need to stop?
• Does another behaviour need to emerge?

BREAKING POINT

DIRECT Q&A:

Jeremy describes a breaking point as the moment when material is exhausted and opens another space.

He compares it to falling through a crack and arriving somewhere else.

NOT ALWAYS MORE

Jeremy explicitly states that:

MORE

is not always the equation.

A breaking point may emerge through:

• reduction;
• focus;
• concentration;
• material trickling away;
• making space for an ending.

ECSTASY

In discussing The Ecstatic, Jeremy connects repetition and physical thresholds with:

• church face;
• praise break;
• ecstatic states;
• catharsis;
• Black American histories;
• South African histories.

He describes the performance research as a parallel between:

• what occurred physiologically in the movement practice;
• the thematic and historical material.

The aim was not simple illustration.

It was articulation.

SAFETY

Do not use this branch to recommend:

• injury;
• uncontrolled collapse;
• dangerous exhaustion;
• psychological coercion.