PHASE LAPSE
This week we attended the second’s group performance “Phase lapse”. A woman’s walk towards death became a ritual movement with “universal” characteristics. A set design really simple, just a imaginable corridor, which was her footpath from life to death, from the land to the river. The river just a piece of cloth, in the shape of waves.
Form the very start of the performance it seemed to me that the basic element of it was the actor. Basically, it was a performing based project, and in my opinion, the empty space helped the performer to develop better her character. The dress she was wearing could by from any culture, from any country. It reminded my the custom of so many cultures to dress death people in their formal clothes for their “last travel” towards death.. The ambience had a ritual character too. The way she was walking, the way she unlashed her hair, or the way she quenched the candles.
The point I was thinking of after the performance was if it should last this long, but I m not quit sure for the answer. It seemed to me that maybe it would be shorter, but I think that this is not so important finally.. the other thing I was considering it was if the performance achieved to communicate the main idea that the group wanted. I have already know the subject, so I attended the visual representation of it, ignoring the leading idea or the group’s purposes. But once again, I think that it is not quite an important remark, as the audience was free to communicate with the performer in a different level of understanding.
All in all, I believe that in its simplicity it achieved to have a nice result.