Lockdown DANCE/SOUND Collaboration, April 2020:

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Over the course of the Covid period, on lockdown, I have collaborated as an artist and sound artist with five worldwide dancers based in the UK, US, Australia and Mexico, with thanks to the dance company Staunch. 

For the most part, we had never met before this project took place and the results were born from an adjustment to all persons' fractured artistic practices. Shot on handheld mobile devices, from the comforts of home, these pieces show the dancers reacting through dance to my sound pieces. Having sent over the footage, I then edited the shots into these films. 

 

One piece per person, wearing similar clothing but in different locations - these videos mirror the five variations on the same theme that the pieces themselves represent. They consider mapping a new form of landscape within which work could exist (due to the circumstances of lockdown), this being unrestrained geographically, whilst existing solely online. 

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Imbued with memory, the dancers’ home environments and personal responses to the music seemed to encapsulate authenticity and honesty with regard to emotional response and internal landscape. An interesting juxtaposition, when presenting these intimate settings on wide, open, connected but often impersonal online platforms such as Youtube and Instagram, for anyone to view behind a screen.