On 'A Piece for Two (Lovers)' – an unrehearsed performance piece. Issue 1 (2nd January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Vesty, Robert; de la Fe, Antonio
• Is Part Of: Research in drama education. Volume 22:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 166
• Page End: 171
• Publication Date: 2017-01-02
• Subjects: Choreography -- precarity -- unrehearsal; Drama in education -- Periodicals; Drama -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 792.071
• DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2016.1262252
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1356-9783

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This submission consists of three 15-minute audio files and a written essay. Audio files #1 and #2 are performance scores made by dance artists Antonio de la Fe and Robert Vesty for A Piece for Two (Lovers), a performance of which was realised on 20 February 2015 at Royal Holloway, University of London. # 3 is a conversation between de la Fe and Vesty recorded unrehearsed for this special issue of RiDE. Together, the essay draws attention to the way in which the performance piece theatricalised its inherent precariousness. De la Fe and Vesty have been in a romantic relationship since December 2012 and the piece draws on themes of volatility and strength. The essay then goes on to propose de la Fe's notion of unrehearsed not just as a mode of making that can be seen as an 'artrepreneurial', (to use Jen Harvie's term), disruption of conventional modes of making artistic work, but as a way to simultaneously reclaim and denounce precarity by re-thinking unrehearsal as a vital choreographic process.