How to Relax
“How To Relax” is a multimedia project that uses an obscure self-help text to ask what it means to experience a personal transformation in the company of other people, both real and imagined.
Performance: a performance piece in which I took on the role of a self-help guru and asked three performers to participate in a visualization exercise on relaxation, guided by my voice, in front of a live audience.
Synopsis: “How to Relax” is an experimental video that asks what it means to experience a personal transformation in the company of others, both real and imagined. The video features five dancers who share personal reflections as they participate in a process that is part self-help experiment and part dance rehearsal. Through the dancers’ performance-based engagement with an obscure self-help text from the 80’s, the video reveals what transpires when self-help is brought into a relational, physical and interpretive space.
Production: Self-Produced and in conjunction with an art exhibition and dance theatre performance at Xpace Cultural Centre and SummerWorks Performance Festival.
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