The opening of Sur Polar Buenos Aires.
Around 400 people attended the opening of Sur Polar last night, and 200 filled the auditorium for today’s presentations. Scientists and artists who had worked in Antarctica presented in Spanish, or via a translator from French or English.
After so much preparation, and discussion with the other artists these past few days, I found it strangely easy to throw away the script I had prepared for Spanish translation. The translator spoke English so fluently, he set an easy pace. This allowed for simple word phrasing and more visual communication, through gesture and the screened animations.
A young woman approached me afterwards. In broken English, she described her work with dance and art and animation. Tomorrow we go to a movement improvisation performance, El juego delast The Game of Elastics, at the Centro Cultural Cooperation.
Then we will go to a free Tango jam in a local park.