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Talking about where Missing began, the seed for any of Geckos shows can come about - like
The Arab And The Jew - with the growing sense that there is something important the needs
to be explored and makes sense to explore somehow.
There is also another scenario where a major seed for exploration emerges kind of by chance
- which is the way that Missing began life.
I was doing a residency with a company in America, a dance company, and we happened
upon some central ideas which really was me provoking them down certain avenues.
The idea of a woman with a decaying soul, a missing child and a scientist trying to
understand the human soul in a scientific way.
That was the point of departure - I threw myself into those three areas of exploration.
With any Gecko show, as soon as you have hold a seed there is a kind of explosive thing
that happens where all manner of ideas explode from that point.
Over time its sort of like bouncing down the sides of a funnel where you get more and more
focused into a singular point of intensity - a singular point of exploration and focus.
The scientist kind of dropped away a little bit and that sort of element got puled into
the story of the woman with the decaying soul and the child sort of got pulled in to be
something to do with the woman whose soul was decaying and some notion to do with her
as a child having gotten lost somehow.
So that was very much the start, the start was through a residency with a company and
following my instincts - following ones instincts is central to how all shows begin.