MA Performance
Dance
bodytalk (revival) Shobana Jeyasingh
One of Britain’s most outstanding and unique choreographers, Shobana Jeyasingh uses influences from a range of contemporary and South Asian dance styles, mixing dynamic power with articulate gestures. Using Steve Reich’s Triple Quartet, bodytalk captures the many voices of the body. Formal and theatrical, soft and conversational, the dancing body has numerous stories to tell.
Untitled (working title) Colin Poole
Poole is interested in exploring the dynamics of human relationship through dance. His work continuously reinvents itself, emerging from the convergence of the particular qualities bought forth from the performers, music and conceptual influences.
Zola Station (working title) Gregory Maqoma
Zola is a notorious area in Soweto, Johannesburg, known for its fast life. You need to constantly watch your back when you are in Zola. Zola Station is a meeting place for the feared and respected but also for the innocent ones, that wait for trains to take them to work. The work is about waiting and in the waiting, relationships develop. The work is an adrenalin rush, the morning and afternoon rush, the rush for cover and safety.
Hearts and Minds Matthias Sperling
The sound for this work is a live relay of the heartbeats of the performers, made audible by ECG readers worn on the performers' fingers, wirelessly sending their pulse data through to a sound system. As the performers increase or decrease the intensity of their physical and mental activity, the polyphony of their pulses also changes. Using technology originally designed for fitness and medicine, the simple and involuntary act of a heart's beating becomes performance and the performers' ability to consciously alter their internal tempo for an audience becomes art.
Strange Journey Keira Martin
Irish dance and music has its roots based firmly in tales and tradition and is expressed through the medium of family and community gatherings. Strange Journey is a synthesis of different rhythms and movement that seeks to express the spirit of story and sentiment, evoking the Celtic past of struggle, joy, love, travel and loss. At the same time, it fuses with contemporary influences to give a lively and absorbing experience which will both haunt and enchant audiences with its soulful laments and toe tapping beats.