Enso

Enso has been looking for a space it could be performed in, as it was almost like a live thing, which kept responding to different spaces and created some kind of symbiotic relations. Morag Deyes, artistic director of Dance Base and I had many chats about Enso finding the best space where it can be performed and the idea which came up was that maybe it needs to keep exploring the relations with the spaces. Building on my ongoing work in site specific and exploring relationship with environment it seemed interesting to take a set piece and re-place it and re-create it in the process.

Zen art calls for audience participation: the circle in zen calligraphy has no fixed meaning. One can see different things in it at different times. Haiku is called ‘the half said thing’ - the appreciation of haiku is a matter of collaboration between poet and reader.

We invite the audience to travel with us to the different spaces and participate in the dialogue with spaces. The audience would have to answer for themselves about the invisible which might become visible in this journey and ponder: Is the space holding us or is it us who hold the space?

Audience might become the space and are also invited to transform it – but they’d need to come and see the show to understand what I mean by that.