How do we inhabit space? In Samuel James’ Vivaria, meaning ‘place of life’, five dancers invoke their own psychological space in urban environments from Japan, Australia, Germany and beyond.
Mobile States Cluster Tour 2011
A grey wall of identical doors, a ghostly car park: industrial and post industrial, the Kafkaesque tableaus are interchangeable, like shuffling a deck of cards. This mesmerizing four-screen installation explores the subjectivisation of urban space. Caught in perpetual hum drum motion or lost in an alien world, the performer is in paradox with the space they find themselves in, and appears, at times, to somehow have adapted to the imaginary environment.
Vivaria is a dance video installation which draws on the unique talents of independent Sydney and Melbourne dancers and movement artists. These artists operate outside the conventions of mainstream dance and in this installation, use the disciplines of Body Weather and improvisation to ‘remotely’ attach their image to the digital environments that have been created for them.
Touring history
- Performance Space, Sydney
8 - 11 Sep 2011
- Adelaide Festival Centre
25 - 28 Aug 2011
- Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart
18 - 21 August 2011
- Brisbane Powerhouse
10 - 13 Aug 2011 - Arts House, Melbourne
4 - 7 Aug - Gesture :: Performance | Film | Dance
University of New South Wales
15 - 19 Jun, 2010
Commissioned by Reeldance Inc. Toured by Performing Lines for Mobile States, with the support of the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and through the national performing arts touring program, Playing Australia.
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