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WURF
WURF is a puppet who cuts his strings.
A concept that met a realisation in a performance
in 2000. High-Xposure, a highly experimental vertical dance company (climbers meet choreographers) for whom I had been doing music and movement, was commissioned by Toronto’s Theatre Centre to create a piece for the Body Geometry Festival. In November 2000 WURF (as ‘spectacle’) premiered. Suspended by a 60′ rope with which he could swing all the way to the balconies, and controlled by 4 human puppeteers suspended 20′ off the ground, WURF scissored to his fall, ‘giving birth’ to a sequence of events far beyond his control.
Conceptually WURF is a marionette, floating and swinging in a state of grace, blissfully unaware, willess and gravitiless. Offered a pair of scissors and a head lamp to see with, WURF awakens, becoming conscious. Cutting himself free from his pre-tensile cocoon WURF falls. So begins WURF’s journey; a journey from a kind of paradisal choiceless unity into the endless tensions and boundaries of the dualistic world. An infant in movement, WURF must develop the skills to move in a world forever pulling down, rather than up. Restless, impatient with the limitations imposed by gravity, WURF begins to resist it. Pushing and stretching the limitations of human movement, swinging across gravitational extremes, WURF attempts to create the tension and hence momentum required to break out of the skin of mortal limitations and re-enter the sphere of grace. In an archetypal act of escape and resistance WURF learns to climb, and so WURF ascends, reversing his original fall, the consequences of which are yet to be known.
Mediador
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Rhizome
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Mona
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