Lapped Translated Lines (2010)
In a piece that seeks to extend the definition of dance, live performance is set against new film work and a sculptural installation designed by Post Works. The choreography was created by Rosemary Butcher and born out of discussions with dancer Elena Giannotti about Darwin and the skeletal structure and morphology of animals. Daria Martin’s film captures the resulting performance in impressionistic fragments and powerfully depicts the inner world of the dancer as she navigates her way through the piece. Post Works’s sculptural framework of steel and light acts as a viewing frame, delineating the edges of the performance space, and a register against which to view the physical movement of the dancer. Celebrating the processes of translation and transformation, the work expands on the inherent slippages that occur between one language, physical state, space or discipline to another.
Performer: Elena Giannotti
Film: Daria Martin
Sound: Cathy Lane
Set design: Post Work
