22/07/2012
A performer covertly placed in the audience may be awaiting their cue to perform an improvised dance evoking and channelling the deity of Bingo-Number intoxication known as Nana shamanic is part human, part mythical distillation of the bingo player’s paradigm.Nana shamanic, obvious in her blue rinse and cloak of many numbers, is an age-old shamanic high priestess as well as an old-aged veteran of Bingo Hall ‘Dropsy’: a more severe case of Bingodisiac in which numbers fall like gold from the heavens, rather than ‘come up’ as is the usual case. Nana shamanic is an adept at translating numbers into body movements using a complex method of allocating limbs to numbers and division of factors to create numbers within numbers allocated to smaller and smaller joints and muscles within the main body. This system of interpretive dance has a further unpredictability in the case of prime numbers. When a prime number such as 3,7,9,11,13,23,47 ‘comes up’ the allocation system works on the whole body at once: resulting in a ‘body pop’ which has to be seen to be understood.
Being part-mythical some members of the audience may experience Nana Shamanic's performance as a slight blurring of periphery vision, and nothing more.
