The rehearsal room. The early studio. The salon. The private workshop in which the artist or performer can do the un-finished work that is not yet ready for the stage. Chariklo in Leo draws the ring around the creative ground from which the public work eventually emerges, and protects it from the early audience that would distort the work in formation.
Chariklo in Leo is the studio elder, the patron, the rehearsal-room keeper, the workshop-runner whose protective enclosure makes a body of public work possible. She is the gallerist whose backroom is the year-long held space in which young artists prepare their first show. She is the theatre director whose closed rehearsal rooms are the sacred container inside which actors can be bad enough to discover what they are capable of. She is the mentor-elder whose private salon is the discreet enclosure in which a generation of writers test what they are not yet ready to publish. The Leo-Chariklo medicine is honouring the difference between rehearsal and performance — and being someone who can hold the rehearsal-space against premature exposure.
The rehearsal room. The early studio. The salon. The private workshop in which the artist or performer can do the un-finished work that is not yet ready for the stage. Chariklo in Leo draws the ring around the creative ground from which the public work eventually emerges, and protects it from the early audience that would distort the work in formation.
The early creative process from premature exposure. Leo-Chariklo protects the year of un-photographed studio work, the workshop in which the play is still being built, the private music sessions before the album, the practice in which the artist learns the craft without anyone watching. The work needs the ring around it to mature into what it will become.