Reflections in Dance on Dan Graham’s Pavilion was commissioned by Turner Contemporary Museum,
Margate in June 2013 as part of Love
Architecture Week. Responding to the Museum’s Summer exhibit of Dan
Graham’s Two Cubes, One Rotated 45, Adesola
Akinleye explores the relationship between architecture and those who inhabit
it. In creating a dance work for Dan Graham’s pavilion she was especially
interested in how the pavilion investigates the act of seeing oneself reflected
and at the same time watching others beyond the glass.
The choreography uses the
reflected body to explore the multilayers of the Self’s, discursive identity:
the many bodies we inhabit as we move from situation to situation. Adesola is
interested in how place, and how we
are ‘witnessed’ in place (re)creates our sense of our physical Self.
The choreography interrogates
the relationship between the ephemeral body and the physical body. Adesola took
this as a focus using the phrase “I see
myself in you when…’ as a choreographic idea.
Adesola’s choreography asks
the audience to witness the sensation of being present in ones own reflections:
asking the audience to witness the sensation of seeing through the many
reflections of Dan Graham’s installation.
This short film shows an excerpt
of the work.
