Best Regards From Charles Filch: A ballet of the mind
Recuerdos de Charles Filch: un ballet de la mente
Charles Filch was assisted by: Mari Carmen, guard of the Spanish pavilion. Text prompts designed by: Dora García
I try to give here an account as precise as possible of the complex work created by Charles Filch for the Spanish Pavilion in the Venice Biennale. Filch has created a Ballet in ten chapters addressed to all the different nationalities that attend the pavilion each day; in this ballet, he tells his own personal story, without words, so as to be understood by everyone, with the universal language of music and body movement.
We have already told somewhere in this blog that the first dancing performance of Charles was somehow missed or misunderstood by the audience. I suggested him to give a stronger, clearer structure to the piece, dividing it in chapters with clear and suggestive titles. So this is what we did. We handed over to the visitors A4s with these ten chapters written, and they could ostensibly follow the performance. The result was unusually warm applause.
These, are the ten chapers:
BEST REGARDS FROM CHARLES FILCH
A BALLET OF THE MIND
CHAPTER I: Flight from Soho, from Soho to Münster
CHAPTER II: Being Sculpture Number 06
Chapter III: Love between two sculptures: Number 1 and Number 6
Chapter IV: Charles Filch, Street Writer
Chapter V: Charles Filch, Guided by Stars (Of Cinema)
Chapter VI: Disappointment at the barbershop
Chapter VII: Metamorphosis at night
Chapter VIII: How to disappear: three possibilities
Chapter IX: Going Back into Bertolt Brecht’s Book
Chapter X: Where do characters go when the story is over? To Santiago de Compostela with François Piron
END (passionate applause from the audience)
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