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(3)Let Me Begin Again
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I did Going Solo Together in 2023. I started it 4 days after my auntie Elizabeth, who was like my second parent, and had been extremely ill with MS, died. I didn’t get to see her, because she had Covid, and I had been asked not to come down. For the first day, all I can remember is lying down under my coat feeling the vile rag of grief, and not wanting to be in the room, let alone be with anyone. It’s taken over 3 years to make sense of the impact of her death, and some of the consequences of Going Solo on me and my work.
Going Solo together is a strange, strange, powerful thing. Cai, the person who has built this process, crafted something extremely powerful and tender. An unusual combination. For me, this year long movement practice, with a small group of other people connected me back with and into my body. It was after this year, that I started pro-actively and wilfully using my body in my work. Importantly, I stopped hiding from myself, and started using movement, dance, gesture, viscerality and raw emotion as explicit materials with which to explore myself and my relationship with and in the world with.
The format of the year long process, is a small group of the same people meet up for a weekend of movement practice, creative exploration and improvisation for two days every few months. The prompts and group work is both, solo and together. At the end of the year long process, each person shares a 20-minute live performance. My piece was called Let Me Begin Again. I decided not to record it, as I wanted the work to be extremely live; undocumented and of the moment. The pics here are from the R&D phase. The film is a film that I projected and moved / rolled / crawled/ danced in front of. There are deliberate gaps in it, for times I wanted to move without projected image behind me.
Thank you, Cai for your vision, teaching and practice. I think it starts with an open hand, an attempt.
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