With FIRE STARTER the performers approach the emergence of togetherness and explore how these states manifest in our bodies and in an encounter with other people. FIRE STARTER is a research space where the audience can ignite their own participation, by deciding their role: if they are watching, moving or floating in both spheres. The "exercises" done during the performance are a trigger to allow the audience other entrance points in the experience of the performance. The performer itself, takes the place of a caretaker, a sort of βtourβ guide that conducts the experience during the piece.
FIRE STARTER was presented in the frame of Flutgraben Performances (Berlin) as a pre-research study in November 2019. In the first sharing of the work we were invited to take part in what I experienced as a human carwash, with eyes closed and a place to refuse, we had the opportunity to experience and expand our allowance towards mutuality, where our bodies were softly calmed through touch, we entered an experience where skin was light and a relationship between witnessing, following and vibrant exposure was shared tenderly.
The sharing suggested a place to see one another and to discover through one another. While spectating via a sensorial experience, we were able to witness each other's potentiality; the environment created was intimate and poetic.
Through gentle suggestions to share our similarities and move together, mysterious paths to recognition and identification (which are such a vulnerable and highly needed human qualities) reminded how the sacred rhythm of the journey allow the people in the room a multiplicity of lenses to see and feel ourselves through the performers and the other way around.