How To Greet Like a Jamaican: Step 1
How to Greet Like a Jamaican: Step 1 is an invitation in the broadest sense. In a one-to-one setting we explore how each of us uses our own bodies to establish, suggest, define and reinforce our relationship to another person – a question that comes up in daily life when we meet a person we impulsively prescribe as 'Other'. Inspired by social practices physically and psychologically inscribed onto the artist while growing up in Jamaica, the piece becomes a physical approach towards the experience of treating strangers as family.
CREATION AND PERFORMANCE: Zwoisy Mears-Clarke
COACHING: Anna Mülter and Liz Rosenfeld
THANKS TO: Maria F. Scaroni, Eva Barkadiev, Julia Metzger-Traber, Jörn Burmester, and Roni Katz
Co-production with Sophiensaele, Tanztage Berlin 2015
Filmed at Sophiensaele Berlin, August 2015:
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Leo Gold
SOUND: Robert Constantine
VIDEO: Diethild Meier
