Dance Video Workshop: Control  
 

1990 (GB)
Umatic video projection 6 minutes, 1990
With video monitor Installation, 18 minutes

This piece was commissioned by choreographer Jacqueline Rose.

Further Video Workshops:
Dance Video Workshop: Secret Spaces 1990
Bochum Workshop: Uniform, Statussymbol und Ideal 2007

 

At the centre of the stage-area, is a large, flat, circular mound of sand. The dance company Tread Boldly appear and start to disturb it. A 6-minute video projection of the same dancers, screened at the back of the stage-area, commences after the dancers have been on stage for a minute. The dancers then perform interactively with the video projection and the sand and continue for a further 10 minutes until the end of the piece. A video installation on a monitor at the edge of the stage, runs during the entire performance of 18 minutes, displaying close up images of hands, feet and ears of one of the dancers.

Tanya Ury