TAINTED TITLE (forever in development)
Tainted Title performs and illuminates fragmented thoughts between people. These thoughts are presented in the form of visualised words, which hover and plague space. Words respond to, trigger and echo the situations brought about by the choreography. Meanwhile contrasting subliminal and dramatic sounds underpin the visual landscape. These sounds put the performance into an ever-evolving state of suspense. They haunt the work by making audible the sonic ghosts of the rooms in which they inhabit.
Tainted Title is informed by the individuals it encounters in the collaboration process. The work echoes collaborators of the past whilst adapting to collaborators of the present. In this process an evolving conversation is set in motion, which is carried through people and place. This conversation accumulates and extends into the future.
Tainted Title was commissioned through the Keir Choreogrpahic Award (2014), with the first iteration presented at Dancehouse. It was then developed at Temperance Hall (2015) and presented as a work in constant development at Tanzhaus Zürich (2017). Collaborators included performers Benji Sunarjo, Simon Fleury, Sophia Cowen, Matthew Day, Brian Fuata, Deanne Butterworth, set designer Bosco Shaw, sound designer Thembi Soddell and translator Irene Antolin. The project was developed in partnership with producers Alison Halit and Tanzhaus Zürich.
Image courtesy of Tim Darbyshire
Tainted Title is informed by the individuals it encounters in the collaboration process. The work echoes collaborators of the past whilst adapting to collaborators of the present. In this process an evolving conversation is set in motion, which is carried through people and place. This conversation accumulates and extends into the future.
Tainted Title was commissioned through the Keir Choreogrpahic Award (2014), with the first iteration presented at Dancehouse. It was then developed at Temperance Hall (2015) and presented as a work in constant development at Tanzhaus Zürich (2017). Collaborators included performers Benji Sunarjo, Simon Fleury, Sophia Cowen, Matthew Day, Brian Fuata, Deanne Butterworth, set designer Bosco Shaw, sound designer Thembi Soddell and translator Irene Antolin. The project was developed in partnership with producers Alison Halit and Tanzhaus Zürich.
Image courtesy of Tim Darbyshire