In this etude I was using audio as a material and the central element of the work. I was dancing to the debate of Michael Foucault and Noam Chomsky on human nature (1971), the fragment on power vs justice. It was an attempt to embody the sense and content of the debate and represent formal qualities the academics’ speech – manner, intonation, tempo, articulation, dynamic and physical expressions. To development this work I was incorporating Laban efforts, for instance by taking a hand gesture and turning it into a dance move – big, wide, exaggerated.

I was also taking an approach of the choreographer Crystal Pite, who is using the sound of speech and makes performers ”articulate” it with a movement in a grotesque, almost pantomime manner, descriptive of a content of a text. This method could be seen in The Statement  and The Revisor