MANUAL FOR INCIDENCE

7 people come together in over exposed brightness.

Stripped of pretence, the performers are only themselves, doing what comes next. Standing against a wall, smiling, they move out into the space in ones and twos.Over the course of the hour they stand apart and come together, sometimes to watch, sometimes to speak to the audience, sometimes to dance.

Manual for Incidence inquires how individuals arriving from different cities, countries, and practices might come together. Manual for Incidence is a proposal for how autonomy and difference needn’t rule out solidarity, for how being thoughtful, engaged and complex needn’t be so dire and by no means excludes moments of pure joyful entertainment. (JZ)

Manual for Incidence is a performance project that begins as a collection of solos for seven performers from different places. After a while, the group of people – most of whom have never worked together and some who have never met – get together for a time to present these intimate portraits to each other, to discuss them, and to try to find a language to speak about what it all means (and how it feels).

Mostly, a structure for a conversation that hasn’t happened yet. And so, only about an intention to speak freely, to expose vulnerabilities, and to, with our audiences as witnesses and collaborators, grapple with the hard stuff and revel in the absurd.