Sunday, 6 October 2013

Film excerpt of our summer 2013 project in Margate

Click here for film: Reflections in Dance on Dan Graham's Pavilion


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.

2 comments:

  1. Lovely excerpt of a very interesting project. I wonder if this may be something that would be exciting to explore further looking at the relationship between reflection and the identity of self within different environments?

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  2. Yes, I would love to do that, Adesola

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