This event finished on: 29 September 2009
Touch Wood is a biennial season of works in progress at The Place. Each night in Touch Wood comes together at the last moment and no two nights are the same: perfect miniatures, embryonic epics and unforeseen consequences - The Place to risk new ideas.
Touch Wood is a performance complement to Choreodrome. Every other summer The Place’s studios are given over to artists free of charge to pursue research and development projects, with many of the 40 selected participants choosing to reveal their latest ideas for the first time in Touch Wood.
FFIN DANCE
Google Women
Choreographed by Sheron Wray and featuring Lisa Hood and Rebecca Evans, Google Women is a visceral duet that examines widely held perceptions of women, performed by dancers in the midst of their performing careers. They journey to the interior of their ‘real’ and ‘fantastic’ lives, from free-spirited young girls to interdependent adults, invoking a response to Western mediated tropes of womanhood.
Jose Vidal
Loop
Performed by HOPSCOTCH, a collective of international artists and performers, Loop is composed of frozen, sculptural frames which seem to organically mutate. Staged scenes that reference Renaissance iconography, battle scenes, a picnic and religious adoration are brought to life by this living, breathing, sweating organism.Rehearsal notes and pictures can be viewed at Jose's blog
Gabriele Reuter tourist/de-centred play
Gabriele Reuter invited performers Julieta Figueroa and Jane Leaney to join her research on empty space. The three women make a very early visit to unlikely territory between some unknown spaces and others closer to home. This is a first work in progress showing towards a trio to be developed in spring 2010.
Last Minute Touch
Artists Helen Lindon and Damian Llambias will facilitate a response to tonight’s performances using colour.
More to follow...
Visit:
- Jose Vidal blog
Rehearsal notes and pictures for Loop
Main photo: Manuel Vazquez
FFIN DANCE, Google Women photo: Maria Farrelly