A post by Camille Desmarest for her performance in Greenwich train Station as part of Silent Cacophony 2013 Remembrance. With sound by Garry Scott James and event facilitated by Made In Greenwich Gallery, with huge support from the Greenwich Dance Academy (GDA) and station manager Sonia Maulson and her team at Southeastern Railways.
Sunday 10th and Monday 11th: Click Here for Details It is unbelievable what can happen when you simply genuinely ask for it. I am amazed by people's generosity, availability and enthusiasm. I am incredibly impressed by the whole network of connections and interactions between people, despite physical distance. I have been making this piece in Paris, after living in London for three years. I feel like I have not left. Thank you John for putting all the Silent Cacophony events together. Thank you Irena at Made in Greenwich for asking me to be a part of it. Thank you Sonia for allowing this to happen in the Greenwich station and all the staff for being incredibly cooperative with the logistic. Thank you GDA for hosting me so kindly over two days. It would be very hard without your contribution. I do not do “thank yous” because it would be nice, or because it is expected and conventional. I very sincerely felt I needed to tell them. I have always loved stations. I have spent lots of time in them, doing essays while skipping classes when I was at high school. Stations are a moving place by nature. Transitions where we only pass by. Who would go to a station if not to catch a train or pick up a friend ? Because I have often been around and about in cities, I have weirdly spent almost more time in tubes and trains than in the places I was going to. Somehow, stations and trains became somewhere, became a location in my everyday life. They have turned into bed, desk, office, kitchen table, and now stage. It feels right, and home. Trains and stations take the function one gives it. There are scary functions. I am very pleased to make the station a performing place. I like that anyone can watch or go, stay or pass by, make the effort to come to a station, or completely randomly arrive on a performance time. Every time will be different. I will be there. I am ready. Let's go on board.]
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