A1 Poster: 'Dance first, think later. It's the natural order'

The dancer illustrated in this print, Jacob Phillips, wrote a few words on what dancing means to him, “It’s a euphoric feeling, where I don’t need to think or talk and it’s just all about the movement I create”. The fluidity of Jacob’s movement informs the direction of Amber’s pen work. The words, ‘Dance first, think later. It’s the natural order’ are taken from the play Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett. Along the bottom of the poster, an extract from Act 1 is written in Courier font 12-point size, the standard for most screenplay scripts.

VLADIMIR:
He thinks?

POZZO:
Certainly. Aloud. He even used to think very prettily once, I could listen to him for hours. Now . . . (he shudders). So much the worse for me. Well, would you like him to think something for us?

ESTRAGON:
I’d rather he dance, it’d be more fun.

POZZO:
Not necessarily.

ESTRAGON:
Wouldn’t it, Didi, be more fun?

VLADIMIR:
I’d like well to hear him think.

ESTRAGON:
Perhaps he could dance first and think afterwards, if it isn’t too much to ask him.

VLADIMIR:
(to Pozzo). Would that be possible?

POZZO:
By all means, nothing simpler. It’s the natural order.
He laughs briefly.

VLADIMIR:
Then let him dance.

Silence.

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