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Lapped Translated Lines

Lapped Translated Lines is a collaborative piece with concept and choreography by Rosemary Butcher with filmmaker Daria Martin, composer Cathy Lane and architects Matthew Butcher and Melissa Appleton, in which the internal senses of performer Elena Giannotti are amplified using sound and video.

Celebrating processes of transformation, the work expands the inherent slippages that occur as we move from one language, physical state or discipline to another—translating choreography to notation, live performance to recorded film and fixed space and time to a soft, mobile unit that can adapt to its environment.

Butcher s choreography emerged from discussions about Darwin, skeletal structure and morphology of animals. The movements imply a creature in transformation, but one always vigilant, self-contained and internally absorbed.

Under Butcher’s direction, Martin's video captures this performance in impressionistic fragments, depicting the inner world of the dancer as she navigates her way through the dance. The set accommodates the video in an innovative and flexible way, such that the screens are themselves a translation, a series of skeletal movement notations derived from the choreography.

Butchers choreographic vision and concept frames the work as a whole and the result is a piece that explores the complexity of contemporary notions of performance. It separates the boundaries between viewer and performer, event and memory, and dance and art practice.

A video-only version of the work was first presented in a series of events curated by Butcher, collectively entitled Festival of Miniatures, at Sadlers Wells. Her approach to the process of curating was essentially creative and reflexive, extending her creative ideas through the realisation of the work of others with common conceptual ways of working.

Keys funding includes: ACE (15K), Dance Biennale Munich (7K) and Dance Umbrella (5K).