It’s complex to make something simple. Sometimes we spend the most amount of time on the things that seem the most simple, often asking ourselve; WHY IS THIS SO HARD? But what is simplicity, anyways? In performance, in life, in relationships, we all seek some form of simplicity. A rhelm where we don’t have to work so hard and life carelessly flows and everyone is happy and content. But, the path to simplicity is not as simple as the destination. What’s worse is simplicity for one may not be simplicity for another. So does simplicity require complexity? Even to define simplicity feels like a complex task.
Here with Sophia, creating a transition lasts around 10 seconds can seem like a gaint hill to climb, as if cardinal directions are playing tricks on us. Up, down, left, right, in, out, are all conspiring against us and challenging us to un-tangle mental wires.
But, if you can breathe and surrender to patience, determination, and repetition, simplicity becomes a highly-valued resouce. As an audience member, our brains want to function with ease, as a performer, we need simplicity to allow us to breathe, recoup, and relate to our audience.
So, while the process might feel like tiny hurdles that we keep tripping over, the result is a necessary part of the performance, both onstage and off.
