Secret Instructions

SECRET INSTRUCTIONS deals with the phenomenon of language, its basic fundaments and possibilities of further investigation. Choreography and Visual Communication are the main fields of research.

In SECRET INSTRUCTIONS the unreadable between the lines, the invisible in a text, i.e. of a theatre piece becomes the central activity on stage. In different locations (Amsterdam, Zürich, ...) five actors are being instructed with individual scores in the form of stage directions, which every time will be interpreted and executed in a personal way. When the actors get together on stage, their performance is partly controlled, partly underlies their personal interpretation or the factor of chance. Without becoming aware, every interpreter evolves into a protagonist, a director but also an operating passive element in the work of every other participant. The actor interprets the score to achieve the best possible effect in his point of view. The viewer interprets the action. Every part of this chain features a specific profile of interpretation-freedom and -reqirement and is different in every situation. SECRET INSTRUCTIONS aims primarily at creating this chain and secondly to manipulate it in a conscious way. The explicit language/instruction is being opposed to the implicit - the range from one extreme to the other is the playground of communication.

In a printed publication the instructions, as well as the results of 3 performances will be recorded and documented by means of various methods: photography, cartography, drawing, narrative. This will be the second part of an investigation into different kinds of communication relating to body and space.