Katie Duck chooses the dancers/performers, creates and directs the rehearsal processes, designates the place for the film frames, creates the lighting design on location and generally does what is needed for the performance to run smoothly. The scores for movement development and shifts for each piece are placed in a rehearsal process where the dancers manipulate and create the choreography. The dancers she works with are from a pool of performers out of the Magpie Music Dance Company or Magpie umbrella. She can integrate dancer/performers on location as part of her workshops or projects.
Ilaria Honsinger creates films for each project that contain fragments from her oil paintings, site-specific video footage, suspended images, blank spaces, colors and surfaces. Her films are set pieces played in each performance on a DVD to work as both the visual and time frame. All recourses used by Ilaria for duck projects films (paintings + video material) are her own work.
Alfredo Genovesi performs live for each performance. He composes electronic scapes via the guitar, exploring areas that highlight the visual material and usually relentless in its execution with seamless & abrupt sound shifts. He provides a performance tension in how his scores challenge the dancers/performers to contain and develop their movement qualities in time. The compositional process takes place within the rehearsal process with but in reality the pieces can never truly defined until after they have taken place within a live context.
Main pool: Vincent Cacalano, Merel Roozen, Carla Behal Trueba, Sharon Smith, Manuela Tessi, Lee Miri
Musician/composer guest Andy Keep
Amsterdam based pool:
(Magpie Umbrella): Makiko Ito, Manuela Tessi, Lee Miri, Sayaka Akitsu, Sylvain Meret
In order for Duck projects to integrate dancer/performers from your location in a duck projects performance, there needs to be at least a five-day + four hour a day working process prior to the performance event.