On
invisible dances…from afar:
a show that will never be shown
With
texts by Fiona Templeton, James Brown, Rose English and
Martin Hargreaves
Photographs by Henrik Thorup
Knudsen
Designed by Lewis Nicholson.
In the empty auditorium sat just one person: the poet and theatre maker Fiona
Templeton (The Watcher). As she watched, she recorded her experience of
this extraordinary 2-hour long performance, so that an audience might later
hear it on the telephone. The nine performers knew that if they stopped
performing their audience would have nothing to describe and that if she
stopped talking that the show would disappear. James Brown (The Medium)
was invited to investigate and record the presence of a spirit audience in the
theatre building during the performance. Outside the auditorium sat artist Rose
English (The Witness), writing about hearing but not seeing the
performance. A fourth person, Henrik Thorup Knudsen (The Photographer) documented the entire
show from the back of the stage.
PUBLISHED BY ARTSADMIN, OCTOBER 2004
PRICE: £14.95
ISBN: 0-9524337-1-0
To purchase or for further information: Nicky Childs, Artsadmin
T. 020 7247 5102 / E. nicky@artsadmin.co.uk
www.invisibledances.org.uk <http://www.invisibledances.org.uk>
The publication invisible dances was developed in tandem with
a series of live performances, installations, artworks and a sound work for
telephone, presented over the past two years.
Supported by Media Arts Projects and Dance4, with
financial support by Arts Council England.
An Artsadmin Project
Choreographer/dancer Frank Bock & director/designer Simon Vincenzi have worked together since 1996. They have drawn
together a broad range of collaborators – dancers, actors, performance artists,
composers, magicians, and filmmakers – to create a series of unique and
uncompromising theatre-dance works. Over the last five years they have been
researching and developing a body of work under the title of invisible
dances… in which memory, communication, death and disappearance have
been recurring themes.
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