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"Do you Remember Flying?"

Premiered in "Project C 2019 Art Party"

venue: Rebel Art Space

date: 29-31 March 2019

This is the first live performance arising out of the "Becoming Water" project.

The piece is designed to address the site which is an outdoor 3m deep swimming pool. To be observed by audience around the space in 360 degree.

We sourced movement materials of the performers from their childhood images/memory being around a pool.

This dance is about conflicting desires inside a person. One quality is about the real-world of compressed modern lifestyle we live in. Another (associated with space underwater) is about the world of hope and wishful dreams.

The two bodies create separate but parallel worlds (ritual images) that begins to merge and confronted with a challenge to negotiate, trying to make space for themselves.

This element took inspiration from "compressed reality" which is the theme of this festival.

One finally take a plight into the imaginary world (water) but still look back to tease with the one living in the real world.

The dreamer cites a message about freedom, taking a flight, and breathing with the earth. While the realist begins to embark on a search.

The piece finishes with an idea of "marriage" between the two worlds as they begin a intimate relationship yet challenging journey underwater.

The audience moves from being mere spectator around the swimming pool space, into dipping their feet in the water and taking a peak underwater.

As a choreographer, I hope the experience of this piece gives the audience a mirror into their feelings of hope and desires, fuel their imagination, and open them up to dive deeper in the other participatory performances in the program.

Maker: Nitipat Ong Pholchai (Spine Party Movement)

Performers: Wattana Wattanawithee (Pack), Filip Jan Kijowski

Music: Debussy, Salyu, Edith Piaf

Synopsis:

Before our lives are caught up by desires... Before our time becomes a scarcity...Before we burden ourselves with the things we don't actually need...

This dance piece is part of a series “Becoming Water” which is a somatic practice/art project that explores “what water can teach us.” In this creative interpretation, we explore the idea of nostalgia, and the gap between our hopeful vision and our compressed reality.

"BECOMING WATER"

“Becoming Water” is a somatic practice/art project that explores “what water can teach us.” Instead of using water for swimming (=cutting the water, getting from one point to another), we develop a practice of “being, doing, and then dancing” in water.

People from many walks of life that the artist has worked with have benefited from this practice. Underwater, they confront the fear trapped in their bodies, and started to fine-tune their fear reaction mechanism which help them learn to relax unnecessary tension and blockages in their body and mind.

The art project “Becoming Water” seeks to go further. Spine Party Movement recruited a group of dance artists/movers to train and develop more nuances in the practice and explore creatively WHAT WORLD DO WE SEE and WHAT WE CAN POSSIBLY DO when we become water.

We aim to present the work as a series of immersive exhibitions and video installations.

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"Do you Remember Flying?"

Premiered in "Project C 2019 Art Party"

venue: Rebel Art Space

date: 29-31 March 2019

This is the first live performance arising out of the "Becoming Water" project.

The piece is designed to address the site which is an outdoor 3m deep swimming pool. To be observed by audience around the space in 360 degree.

We sourced movement materials of the performers from their childhood images/memory being around a pool.

This dance is about conflicting desires inside a person. One quality is about the real-world of compressed modern lifestyle we live in. Another (associated with space underwater) is about the world of hope and wishful dreams.

The two bodies create separate but parallel worlds (ritual images) that begins to merge and confronted with a challenge to negotiate, trying to make space for themselves.

This element took inspiration from "compressed reality" which is the theme of this festival.

One finally take a plight into the imaginary world (water) but still look back to tease with the one living in the real world.

The dreamer cites a message about freedom, taking a flight, and breathing with the earth. While the realist begins to embark on a search.

The piece finishes with an idea of "marriage" between the two worlds as they begin a intimate relationship yet challenging journey underwater.

The audience moves from being mere spectator around the swimming pool space, into dipping their feet in the water and taking a peak underwater.

As a choreographer, I hope the experience of this piece gives the audience a mirror into their feelings of hope and desires, fuel their imagination, and open them up to dive deeper in the other participatory performances in the program.

Maker: Nitipat Ong Pholchai (Spine Party Movement)

Performers: Wattana Wattanawithee (Pack), Filip Jan Kijowski

Music: Debussy, Salyu, Edith Piaf

"BECOMING WATER"

“Becoming Water” is a somatic practice/art project that explores “what water can teach us.” Instead of using water for swimming (=cutting the water, getting from one point to another), we develop a practice of “being, doing, and then dancing” in water.

The art project “Becoming Water” seeks to go further. Spine Party Movement recruited a group of dance artists/movers to train and develop more nuances in the practice and explore creatively WHAT WORLD DO WE SEE and WHAT WE CAN POSSIBLY DO when we become water.

We aim to present the work as a series of immersive exhibitions and video installations.

CREDITS

Director:

Nitipat Ong Pholchai (Spine Party Movement)

Cinematography and editing:

PaoPoom Chiwarak

Kamonthip Bunnag

Cast:

Fasai Sapnirund

Wattana Wattanawithee (Pack),

Filip Kijowski

Rinyapas Sirisamanphong (DD-flection dance)

Krid Prarom (DD-flection dance)

"Do you Remember Flying?"

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Premiered in "Project C 2019 Art Party"

venue: Rebel Art Space

date: 29-31 March 2019

​

This is the first live performance arising out of the "Becoming Water" project.

The piece is designed to address the site which is an outdoor 3m deep swimming pool. To be observed by audience around the space in 360 degree.

We sourced movement materials of the performers from their childhood images/memory being around a pool.

This dance is about conflicting desires inside a person. One quality is about the real-world of compressed modern lifestyle we live in. Another (associated with space underwater) is about the world of hope and wishful dreams.

​

The two bodies create separate but parallel worlds (ritual images) that begins to merge and confronted with a challenge to negotiate, trying to make space for themselves.

This element took inspiration from "compressed reality" which is the theme of this festival.

​

One finally take a plight into the imaginary world (water) but still look back to tease with the one living in the real world.

​

The dreamer cites a message about freedom, taking a flight, and breathing with the earth. While the realist begins to embark on a search.

​

The piece finishes with an idea of "marriage" between the two worlds as they begin a intimate relationship yet challenging journey underwater.

The audience moves from being mere spectator around the swimming pool space, into dipping their feet in the water and taking a peak underwater.

​

As a choreographer, I hope the experience of this piece gives the audience a mirror into their feelings of hope and desires, fuel their imagination, and open them up to dive deeper in the other participatory performances in the program.

​

​

Maker: Nitipat Ong Pholchai (Spine Party Movement)

Performers: Wattana Wattanawithee (Pack), Filip Jan Kijowski

Music: Debussy, Salyu, Edith Piaf

"BECOMING WATER"

​

“Becoming Water” is a somatic practice/art project that explores “what water can teach us.” Instead of using water for swimming (=cutting the water, getting from one point to another), we develop a practice of “being, doing, and then dancing” in water.

The art project “Becoming Water” seeks to go further. Spine Party Movement recruited a group of dance artists/movers to train and develop more nuances in the practice and explore creatively WHAT WORLD DO WE SEE and WHAT WE CAN POSSIBLY DO when we become water.

​

​

We aim to present the work as a series of immersive exhibitions and video installations.

​

CREDITS

​

Director:

Nitipat Ong Pholchai (Spine Party Movement)

​

Cinematography and editing:

PaoPoom Chiwarak

Kamonthip Bunnag

​

Cast:

Fasai Sapnirund

Wattana Wattanawithee (Pack),

Filip Kijowski

Rinyapas Sirisamanphong (DD-flection dance)

Krid Prarom (DD-flection dance)

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