ABSTRACT
The Bridge of Winds is an international theatre group, incorporated into the Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium in Denmark, which is the home of Odin Teatret. As the lifelong work of The Bridge of Winds members focuses on cultivating the actor’s qualities – a cultivation experienced as a continuous and resistant action – presence is here understood as an ethical process unfolding through repetition. In The Bridge of Winds, both in the practice and in terms of the ethos of the practice, the body becomes a plane of immanence, designed to facilitate encounters, affects, becomings through the apparatus of repetition. Framing the territory through Gilles Deleuze’s writings highlights a specific view on repetition as a key principle of engaging in an alternative working model, one that articulates different deployments of time as a creative and resistant force in the actor’s work, and challenges neoliberal paradigms of performer training.
