Day FOURTEEN - the end of the beginning

Wow! This was the last day of my residency and these weeks felt like they went by faster than the weather does on this island. And look at the picture! After a night of rain the hill presented herself to us as new. Imagine a boy with a brand new TOI, and you get a picture of how I felt inside.
Bas van Peijpe came to watch my first runthrough, to give some feedback cause until now, nobody but my lieftallige assistant knows what I'm doing in the sand.
Afterwards his first word was 'wow' so I guested that was a good sign. We talked it over and basically; the performance is ready. It's just going to be guessing how my audience will behave in terms of... how they want to move in the space, what are their urges and expectations. This is something you can not control that much so it's going to be exciting next week. Usually the audiences behaviour has a big influence on me and my work, because I want to move each other.

We also got a lot of details done today.. you won't directly think about it when you experience a performance (however minimalistic), but hiding flashy roadsigns, making businesscards from sandpaper (...), digging out dead foxes, and protecting a sand hill can be time consuming business. So again I want to thank Maité Guërin for her unconditional efforts (and I will)!

Okay, I need to keep it short cause tomorrow we have to carry out 100 stones again and for some reason, writing this blog always happens between 1.00 and 3.00 o' clock. That's why this is the last post; I want to put all my energy in the right direction now. To play four times a day that's not going to sit in your kouwe kleren. Still I promised a very short movie from all the 'pic's of the day' from the hill (the first picture of every post), to see the changes in the sand and weather. 

But that's for next week. 

For now I wish all the artists 

a big TOI TOI TOI 

and to everyone: lots of s/fun!

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