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35 - Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
A Way Now. Commissioned choreographic work for Probe Dance Company. Produced with support from Arts Council England. British Tour in 2008. DVD only. URL evidences Guardian review of London performance at The Place Theatre, March 2008 (hard copy included).
A Way Now was a commissioned choreographic work for Probe Dance Company reflecting spatial and territorial interactions, an abstract composition that through its content and structure exposes a deliberately ambiguous narrative.The piece was positioned within a repertoire of five works by different choreographers with a scaled-down and moveable proscenium arch that each choreographer was required to make use of. In order to make this prop more abstract I chose to turn it around so it had the appearance of a white wall, and I used lighting both to emphasise its mass and to cast shadows, in a manner perhaps similar to a De Chirico painting. There were three research approaches to this piece: (1) to have the performance culminate in a single strong image; (2) to create a body of dynamic and physically interwoven crescendi of original movement that afforded the manifestation of this simple image; (3) to atomise this body of interwoven physicality and to work with its fragments. During the research process, I worked on developing number (2) first, and from there number (3), with the particles both appearing and reappearing, gravitating towards each other, and piece by piece fitting into place. The material become recognisable as something that has already been seen. Even though this is an abstract approach, there was a clear dynamic propulsion and a narrative to the movement.
