Getting back to nature

Spending three weeks at the Centre de Création Chorégraphique (TROIS C-L) residency was hugely informative, stimulating and at times challenging to the poetic degree that the work you do, cannot be escaped. The residency context nurtured an environment of extreme focus and dedication to our research, in ways that the normal studio development situation doesn’t achieve. The situation of travelling and working away from home in an unfamiliar city inspired an intensified the structure to our days, with us taking a long walk through the snow to the studio together every day, engaging in a thorough warm-up and class with invited local dancers, breaking together, shopping together, cooking, eating, and navigating our way home together. Whether intended or not, the compulsion to reflect on the days work together took on a new and uncanny collective instinct too, as though in this context life is work, and work is life, and suddenly there really is nothing else to engage with but your own momentum.