Elaborate Body Language (Day 77 - Jens)
Channel: Jens Bäckvall
Date: 2012-03-17

Once upon a time, there lived a man. A great big, towering, fat, giant of a man with power beyond measure, as he owned both farms, fields, houses and whole towns. Both his power and his great size, were things he had inherited from his father, who had taught him how to get fat by commandeering other people to work for him.
 One day, the man received a letter from someone living in a town that he owned. The letter told of sorrow, grief and problems and of the ill treatment of workers in the man's factories. It asked him to come to the town to rectify things. At first, the man was disinclined to go, having never left his comfortable home for more than a few hours at a time, but something in this letter, maybe the tone, maybe the softness of the paper or the flowing handwriting made him pack a bag and take his first steps ever into the world beyond his own doorstep.


This video is one of the tools for a new, open-source physical-theatre project by Jens Bäckvall and Christian Adelhorst Rossil.  Every day in 2012, we will create a small movement or other idea for the stage with a minimum length of 10 seconds. This will be filmed and uploaded. The uploads are not meant as finished material, but are sketches for possible further work. Every video and the things done in them are open-source, meaning that anyone may copy, use or be inspired by the videos and movements and use them in any way they want to. All that we ask is that you mention our names in any flyers etc. if you use it. Also, we ask you to comment on the material, either through writing or creating and filming material of your own. Anything you upload will also become open-source and a part of the project. In the beginning of 2013, we will create a performance, based on and using some or all of the material that we, and others, have created.  See our home-page for more information: ‪http://www.t-nova.org/2473652012-EN.html

Enjoy! 

If you like our project, please consider supporting us through one of the following:

Denmark: http://www.booomerang.dk/projects/2473652012-an-open-source-physical-theatre-project/

The rest of the world: http://www.indiegogo.com/24-7-365-2012-An-open-source-physical-theatre-project?a=27522

Thank you.