WYSIWYG (or What You See Is What You Get)
With Katarzyna Witek and Chloe Abbott
The Place Theatre, London
Wednesday 2 December 2015, 4pm and 8pm
WYSIWYG borrows from the computing terminology for a user interface that allows a developer to immediately see the end result while a project is being created. In this case, the interface of the theatre. What are our modes of ‘seeing’, and of seeing performance? Can we reach beyond the accepted and expected framework of the theatre and encounters between spectator and performer, to explore modalities of co-presence inherent in the gathering of people in one place? The performers and the camera continually displace themselves through the space, creating quirky shifts of perspective and making mobile the viewing/critical/sensual distance. The audience is invited to experience the work through multiple lenses and depths of experience, through intimate compositions of body sections or the close up deconstruction of the body of the trumpet, and the shared breath in the space.
Created for the Masters in Contemporary Dance at the London Contemporary Dance School, with mentorship by Sara Wookey and Sue MacLennan.
With Katarzyna Witek and Chloe Abbott
The Place Theatre, London
Wednesday 2 December 2015, 4pm and 8pm
WYSIWYG borrows from the computing terminology for a user interface that allows a developer to immediately see the end result while a project is being created. In this case, the interface of the theatre. What are our modes of ‘seeing’, and of seeing performance? Can we reach beyond the accepted and expected framework of the theatre and encounters between spectator and performer, to explore modalities of co-presence inherent in the gathering of people in one place? The performers and the camera continually displace themselves through the space, creating quirky shifts of perspective and making mobile the viewing/critical/sensual distance. The audience is invited to experience the work through multiple lenses and depths of experience, through intimate compositions of body sections or the close up deconstruction of the body of the trumpet, and the shared breath in the space.
Created for the Masters in Contemporary Dance at the London Contemporary Dance School, with mentorship by Sara Wookey and Sue MacLennan.
But the evening was all about Katarzyna Witek in WYSIWYG. Her small, blonde colleague, Chloe Abbott, played the trumpet, sort of, but it was Witek who transformed herself. She blossomed from mundane stage performer to riveting film presence on her own little movie camera, shot on stage and beamed up on the screen.
-Sunday Express
Again one thinks of André Lepecki’s book, Exhausting Dance, and the reference in it to ‘decelerating the blind and totalitarian impetus of the kinetic-representational machine’.
- Seen and Heard International
WYSIWYG - Trailer from oddpuppy on Vimeo.