Listening Bodies | movement laboratory 1 (2003)
The lab focussed on the exploration of the body as a moving organism and vehicle for movement expression surfacing from attention to stillness. The conscious mind served as an observer to a moving life force and to involuntary movements functions. Movements became amplified extensions of that which is experienced in the present time. The performance experience was focussed on the art of subtle movements and communication.
Performers: Marthe Louise Bolkan Schneider, Simona DeGregorio, Anne Heilmann, Pauline Huguet, Kirstin Line, Robert McNeill, Ann Sanh, Anastasia Tsonou
Where: Laban and Peckham Rye, London
About7 | movement laboratory 2 (2004)
No middle no end & no beginning
Enter & exit anytime & anywhere
A 3-hour long site-specific performance, a 100m journey to a cone sculpture, bodies transform into disformed shadows, a group of individuals move as one body mass and disappear under a projection of light.
Performers: Agnes Czerna, Melissa Dornelles, Andrew Downes, Dani d’Emilia, Andrea Meneses Guerrero, Christelle Lafille, Robert McNeill, Edgar de Oliveira, Maia Sambonet and Juli Talerico
The Cone by Joel Gray, Thomas Leahy and Matt Pike
Sound: Pelado | Projections: Robert McNeil and Shinjoru
Co-ordinators: Marta Angelozzi and Dagmara Bilon
Where: Area10 and Westcombe Park Gallery, London
The Life and Death of Christelle Lafille (2006)
Inspired by R.D. Laing's The Divided Self. Depicts a story about a modern man who in conflict between the demands of conformity and instinctive drives, gradually disintegrates from one whole into literally many pieces.
Text/scene2: "stand up, sit down, wash up, sit down, turn around, stand up, television on, sit down, dry up, light off, shopping, greeting, this is how i look like, look over there, close your eyes, don't do it, an observer lives inside my house, it's ok, no it's not, sit down, be nice, eat up now, hurry up, light on, sit down, turn around, talk sense, tell me the first thing you remember, come back, eat mustard, who is the observer? this is how i look like from the front, lie down..." Performers: Sam Booth, Stella Anna Glockner, Eirini Kartsaki, Christelle Lafille, Penny
Where: Area10 and The Place, London; Faki Festival, Zagreb
Out of Nothing (2007)
A site-specific performance in collaboration with Andreas Constantinou
for the International Dance Festival in Rekjavik, Iceland
A Valediction (2007)
Derived through improvisation and a devising process that tried to answer questions such as: how can the body create its own vocabulary/language and communicate its unresolved anxieties and an unexpressed fight? How can movement and text co-exist and interconnect in a tight performative way? What is the role of structure in a performance of fragments? Alternating between chaotic spectacle and fragile intimacy, A Valediction is based on fragmented narratives, juxtaposing various elements such as sound, language, movement and visual images in the performative action.
A collaboration with Eirini Kartsaki
Where: a roof in East London, a derelict building in West London and in the Romanian National Opera, Cluj Napoca
Red River on White Squares (2008)
A durational live installation featuring a composition of 7 red objects and 7 female performers that together construct a three dimensional landscape. A time channel from birth to death and after life...and crosses over the threshold between two worlds of matter and spirit. However, in this piece time is not linear and the episodes unfold simultaneously. Each individual performer working in relation to one object, a repetitive movement phrase, and a unique rhythm.
Performers: Alexandra Baybutt, Agnes Czerna, Eszter Goncz, Jemima Jones, Philippa Karamoegou, Christelle Lafille, Natascha Ruegg
Where: Area 10 and The Other, London
Images ©2008 Rachel Cherry
Encounter (2009)
based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Directed by Magda Tuka
Devised and performed by Kamil Piotr Adamus and Dagmara Bilon
Where: Area10 and Tara Theatre, London
Breathing Image (2009)
"a person cannot distinguish themselves as separate from the object or thing they behold"
The Freudian term is 'projective identification' for storytellers 'sympathetic magic'.
The ability of the mind to step away from its ego for a time and merge with another reality. The corner turns into the sea,the waves continuously rise and fall. The performer is dressed in red and carries a red suitcase. She slowly walks backwards. She stops and looks around her. Her persona contrasts with her surroundings. Her presence is ambiguous. What is she doing there? Is this a dream? She puts down her suitcase, takes off her shoes, her coat, her wig. Every object holds a memory. She leaves a trail behind and merges with the waves...
With special thanks to Marta Angelozzi
Where: Area10, London
