CHOREOGRAPHIC WORK:
LILY OF THE VALLEY
[LILY OF THE VALLEY] “empowers three of the dancers to create spontaneous, improvised dance steps live. They shed their costumes, their fictional selves and find that they are not alone and can share proximity.” - Fiona Perry, Townsville Bulletin
Credits:
Choreography: Michael Smith in collaboration with the dancers
Performers: Damian Meredith, Sabine Crompton-Ward and Tiana Lung
Sound Composition: Anna Whitaker
Lighting Design: Yoshie Kenny
Dramaturgy: Amber Haines
Images: Amber Haines and Aaron Ashley
Credits:
Choreography: Michael Smith in collaboration with the dancers
Performers: Damian Meredith, Sabine Crompton-Ward and Tiana Lung
Sound Composition: Anna Whitaker
Lighting Design: Yoshie Kenny
Dramaturgy: Amber Haines
Images: Amber Haines and Aaron Ashley
Three solo’s for three performers, Lily of the Valley is an attempt at “tuning-inwards” while a myriad of personas, facades and identities saturate the body. Self-defined mythological beings, deities and symbolic figures are embodied as a means to “dress-up”; prescribing an outward facing self that is rigorously stripped of its decorations.
In this improvisational score, the performers utilise speculative fabulation as a means to further their physical and energetic capabilities: attempting to turn invisible, perform alchemy, exist between dimensions. Here the role of fiction and belief permeates the cells and stimulates the imagination, enabling an essence of “true self” to arise.
Real or False Real, that is for you to decide.
In this improvisational score, the performers utilise speculative fabulation as a means to further their physical and energetic capabilities: attempting to turn invisible, perform alchemy, exist between dimensions. Here the role of fiction and belief permeates the cells and stimulates the imagination, enabling an essence of “true self” to arise.
Real or False Real, that is for you to decide.
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With special thanks to:
LILY OF THE VALLEY was commissioned as part of Dancenorth’s ‘Tomorrow Makers 5’ Program, supported by the Ian Potter Foundation.