Unmasking

The most revealing score of the training so far. After an initial 30 min warm up using the head and face and the metaphor of mask and unmask, 15 movers stood in a line, facing the witnesses and performed a solo piece, a story of the head. What happened was a extraordinary enactment of internal struggles, processes, stories, patterns, emotions both tender and traumatic that were expressed using the internal (eyes closed) and the external (eyes open) environment. Without the entire range of the body to rely on, what emerged was a raw unmasking of the self and a sense of pure curiosity, as if I were seeing my body in all its entirety for the first time.