Time is so slippy here that the markers become very simple, the various technical trainings, and mealtimes.

A typical day goes like:

5.30 - 6.30am ------- wake up

6.30ish ---------------- breakfast

7.30 - 8.40am ------- MB (mind/body | muscle/bone exercises)

9.10ish ---------------- Manipulations (body work with a partner)

11.00 ------------------ Groundwork (exercises involving body/external environment)

12.30 ------------------ lunch (most days involves pumpkin)

15.00 ------------------ Groundwork

16.30 -18.30 -------- P4 (performance improvisations)

19.30 ------------------ dinner (more pumpkin -- but we've hidden the remaining pumpkins)

20.30 ------------------ visitors or we present existing projects or works in progress)

21.00 -----------------> sleeping | riverbed or bunkhouse

One day the focus of the Groundwork was burial in the riverbed. Small groups of 4 or 5. Dig holes. Full body immersion including face. Handkerchief placed over face to allow breathing. Weight of sand. Feel pulses in wrists and throat and feet. You can hear the world outside the sand. Talking is a bit difficult but possible. Sarah falls asleep under the river of glass while V lies on the late afternoon sun shot sand next to her. Agnese talks with Karen under the sand, this is where their friendship starts, under the river. Karen is my partner for the burial, and tells me I am under for 7 minutes under, but time bent and for me it was just one minute. Breaking through the sand, squinting at the sun, like emerging from one hundred years of sleep.