Performance · 2017
Hidden
Architectures.
An interdisciplinary collaboration between choreographer Saffy Setohy and sound artist/composer Jan Hendrickse. An immersive performance, the work features an original live score composed for dancers, prepared electric guitars, and electronics.
CHOREOGRAPHY
Saffy Setohy
SOUND & COMPOSITION
Jan Hendrickse
PRODUCER
Sam Eccles
THE PREMISE
Hidden Architectures explores the connections and social knots that we make as humans. Driven by the interconnectivity of sound, movement & materials, it asks:
What does it mean to be connected?
Do our connections constrain us, or liberate us?
Are we ever able to act independently of one another?
THE WORK
A weaving of movement, sound, materials, light and environment.
Hidden Architectures is performed by pairs of people, connected mouth-to-mouth by amplified, near-invisible threads which resonate as the people fall, trace, and carve through space.
A weaving of movement, sound, materials, light and environment, in conversation with and transforming each other.
TRAILER
We recommend using headphones or good-quality speakers when viewing.
“To live, every being must put out a line, and in life, the lines tangle with one another”
Tim Ingold, The Life of Lines
PRESS
EXEUNT MAGAZINE
EXEUNT MAGAZINE
CREDITS & SUPPORT
FUNDED BY
Creative Scotland through the Open Fund.
CO-COMMISSIONED
Tramway
Science Gallery London
PRODUCED BY
Sam Eccles
PRESENTED BY
Dance International Glasgow · Greenwich Dance · Dance Live Aberdeen
WITH SUPPORT BY
The Work Room · Platform · SWG3 · Lyth Arts Centre · Siobhan Davies Dance, through the Dance Artist/Curator Mentorship Scheme · Scottish Dance Theatre · Saltire Society · Trinity Laban · City Moves Aberdeen
CREDITS
Choreography: Saffy Setohy with the performers
Composer : Jan Hendrickse
Prepared Guitar: Milo Taylor
Performers: Luke Birch, Misa Brzezicki, Lucy Boyes, Aya Kobayashi, Elizabeth Rawes, Gabriela Sanchez
Rehearsal director: Luke Birch
Producer: Sam Eccles
Lighting: Dav Bernard
Costume: Bex Anson
Sound technician: Jamie Grier
Technical direction: Dav Bernard
WITH THANKS TO
Special thanks to Tim Ingold for permission to use excerpts from his book The Life of Lines within the sound score. Dance artists Chrissie Ardill, Ian Spink and Brigid McCarthy for their involvement in the early research process.