A new reality has become part of our lives. We all follow the up and downs with hotspot regulations, 3G and 2G rules, antigen tests and other COVID hygiene measures day by day, week by week, month by month, for almost 2 years … The hardest part is the one to accept that the plans made for tomorrow may have to be reconsidered – the uncertainty that all the efforts put into an occasion may blast away sooner than expected.
The expression quoted above is known from Pina Bausch (and also the film title of the documentary film Pina) and it has a really profound meaning – all the dancers of you undestand what I’m talking about :)!! My mother used this quotation exactly two weeks ago, during the dress rehearsal, as a motivation for our first company dance event after having survived two hard lockdowns, and all in all 11 months without any dance training: The big moment of presentation, after 3 extreme hard-core get-in-shape months, was finally there!
The last 8 weeks involved a new challenge for our little family-artist-cooperation :): During the hard COVID-19 lockdowns, my mother kept practicing her technique – not in the studio, but OUTSIDE in the nature! My father started to film her at several points of interest in Bremen (e.g. the Bürgerpark), documenting the changing seasons at the same time. More than 40 shorter and larger videos were the result of her hard work. She chose 9 sceneries of them to have them cut and reworked. She used the material collected to apply on a special grant initialised from the Senator of Culture Bremen to support artists like her to overcome the crisis. Now, get who was the person to help her out with video cutting and uploading them to her website? YES correct – me ;)! It was not so easy first – I tried a lot of free source tools before I – after having installed (then uninstalled) 7 programs plus minus (and getting completely frustrated :D) – decided to work with a professional one. I chose MAGIX Video deluxe (the simple version!) to proceed and was served with some good-looking video editing finally. My mother’s homepage got a new section for her COVID project and we included 11 short videos from the 9 scenes selected earlier. It was nice to see that hard work invested as a result on screen – and to share it with family and friends: https://www.tanzunterricht-hannele-jaervinen.de/projekt-covid-19.
Best thing: Our dance event took place – we didn’t have to cancel anything <3! Sunday 14th of November, 2021 became our day: performing despite pandemic – for us, and 40 guests invited to celebrate with us, a longed for date! We started with a 40-minute film presentation of “CHRONOS et horae – A Danced Dialogue With Nature During Times Of Pandemic” followed by our two dances as Ensemble and Hannele Järvinen herself in a solo performance.
A special evening we won’t forget so fast. Thanks to all helpers from the Radisson Blu Hotel Bremen who made it possible for us to perform in the beautiful location of the Himmelssaal <3.
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