Elena Albert uses video as a parallel tool for research that accompanies or follows the development of a performance work, similar to a notebook in which she takes notes on specific interests relating to the body. Starting from the daily recording of rehearsals and other parts of the process, these "notes" explore the performer’s relationship with the camera. The recorded material as a body that is also inside-outside the work. How can this material be positioned and reviewed? How does the dancer position herself in relation to it? “Annotating” would mean setting up a short series of relationships in relation to possible developments, restructuring the recorded moments, times and situations so that they can be isolated and used to open up a new experience – a version, reflection and evolution of the work.

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