In the Maloka:Yanomami continue with their paintings.
In the Maloka:Yanomami continue working on the flutes.
15th August/all day:
In the Maloka: All day meeting with the shamans telling us about their encounters and experiences with the missionaries. Important for Roland Quitt to create the libretto contents of Taborda´s part dealing with the missionaries. Important for me to study gesture and body – language of the Yanomami (durting their life - reports just as well as during their rituals) to study gesture, body language and mimic in order to develop an artificial manner of representation for the performing singers in the Opera. For all these resaons there is a lot of documentation of all these sessions over the days collected on movie cameras by Leandro Lima, Michael Scheidl and Roland Quitt. The life stories narrated by the shamans where very moving and showed their great personalities and human generosity, when it came to the activities of the missionaries, including any kind of possible betraying and exploitation of the Yanomami – including child – abuse. Many of today´s shamans have been brought up with the children of these missionaries, who either are or where their friends almost from age of zero (in other words: the second-generation-missionaries), so there is no black and white painting about the white people, but there are clear statements about the committed crimes.
15th August/all day:
In the Rain-Forest: Moritz Buechner leaves for the mountain behind the Maloka for some new shots including the overview and the impressive basalt – stone.
15th August/afternoon:
In the Schoolbuilding: Meeting and discussion dealing with different aspects of the creation of the project:
- Is there a necessity to have an embodied, material representation of the Maloka in the performance – space or could we realise it only by light and scatter material? (Quitt, Scheidl, Scheidl)
© Amazonas-Musiktheater/Hutukara Associação Yanomami
