Krisjanis had a grand idea for our work together, our second live collaboration. Poems built on daily notes of gratefulness, with an inevitable twist, when spliced together, interspersed with wrestling. He knew wrestling had been a big part of my life, remains so, since I was young, and Krisjanis being a rock climber, that the physicality should produce a layered and strange and challenging performance. It did, I think. I thought it turned out playful, intimate, symbolic. The audience seemed a bit shellacked by it, but who can tell with one’s own work? I do know I really respect Krisjanis so much, as a person, a poet and now, as a sparring partner. Lovely pics by Madeleine Rose Elliott.
