Saturday, 28 March 2009

Sun Dogs Performance

Sun Dogs is a collaborational, multimedia, site-specific performance. The piece will reinterpret through the use of Butoh, a mashup of the Sun Dance ceremony & Legend of the Raven Catching the Sun of the North American Natives. Using the human body as a projection surface to reflect and distort light this piece will create a visual dialogue between the dancers’ bodies. The soundscape will have live Middle Eastern drumming.

Direction & Set design: Sarah McLaughlin is a freelance theatre-practitioner and visual artist & currently studying MA in VLP at WCA

Light and projection design: Emily Bailey (video installation artist) & currently studying MA in Sculpture at WCA

Costume & Prop design & Interpretation: Eileen Newton Costume Interpreter (VL&Technician at WCA) & currently studying MA in VLP at WCA

Choreography: Lorraine Smith founder of Silversmith Performance Company. She trained in Butoh

Time Frame for installation & strike: Couple of days

Equipment needed for performance: 6 Stage Lights (par cans and source four pars are preferable), 2 projectors, Hazer, 2 speakers, amp, mixing desk, CD player, ladders for installation, safety cables to secure the equipment.

The performance will be held on 30th April & May 1st at the Theatre in Wimbledon College of Art. We held auditions for our performance in a studio in the centre of the city, we posted the details of the audition on ArtsJobs.com and received a very positive response. Found some very talented professional dancers.

Laura Gubbins-Eagle
Roberta Vaz-Raven
Teba Gowez-Bear
Anne Maarit-Orca (Killer Whale)
Umut Uysal-Drummer
Olivia-Wolf

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