2nd Annual Bridgetown Film Festival 2009
29th, 30th, 31st and 1st February
presents
'Circuitry'
Life, Body & Dance Ecology
(Media Art, 60mins) Directed by Marnie Orr with Justin Morrissey
A visual exploration of the way our lives follow strict routine. Bodies fill the space with light and form. A Circuit is created where energy is transferred through the landscpae. How will the audience complete a circuit?
Life, Body & Dance Ecology
(Media Art, 60mins) Directed by Marnie Orr with Justin Morrissey
A visual exploration of the way our lives follow strict routine. Bodies fill the space with light and form. A Circuit is created where energy is transferred through the landscpae. How will the audience complete a circuit?
Venue: Blackwood River park - The Bridge, Bridgetown WA
When: Saturday 31st January 2009 from 7:30pm
Background: Throughout January/February 2009, dancer/maker/designer Marnie Orr takes up a residency in partnership with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Arts (CIA Studios) in Northbridge Perth. Largely presented as a facilitated movement research laboratory the residency engages in a site-based dance mode of inquiry. The investigation focuses on the creation of transformational space and transformational beings - or open bodies – by developing the highly engaged body through visceral experience within both city architecture and natural terrain.A group of invited performers and non-performers work together within highly defined tasks and activities focusing on sense perception within the CIA Studios and moving to outdoor locations including Perth’s inner city spaces and sanctuaries, and the stunning Kalamunda National Park in Perth’s foothills. At the core of the process is the development of shared vocabularies of spoken dialogue in parallel with physicality. The laboratory employs a Bodyweather movement training structure, embracing a philosophical foundation of the walking, working body as it is experienced in place (in country).
The training period brings together performers with other individuals from either artistic (eg. visual arts) or science-based fields of practice (eg. anthropology, permaculture, naturopathy). It is envisaged that working physically with professionals from a wide range of disciplines will inform the dialogue to encompass vocabulary applicable to a much broader scope than performance and performativity.
The residency forms the final project of a research MA Professional Practice (Middlesex University, London). Marnie will employ research processes based on principles of openness, sustainability, creativity and innovation. These processes have been developed over the past three years whilst working in collaboration with Rachel Sweeney as ROCKface performance research duo, largely based in Dartmoor National Park, Devon UK. The residency will also be directly informed by the cross-cultural work of InVivo Movement Research Collective (London), a group of four artists working across four languages investigating site-based movement to develop common understandings and definitions in the English language about the relation between body and environment.
Bodyweather process is embraced through the structure of the Laboratory. The training and philosophical basis for Bodyweather was developed on a farm in Japan by Min Tanaka and his Mai Juku Dance Company beginning in the 1980’s. Bodyweather identifies the body as a tool for movement, existing in a constant state of change. Like the weather, the body holds its own climates and atmospheres. Embracing both eastern and western philosophical views, the broad-based movement training has historically been applied to performance making. One of the aims of the Laboratory is to broaden the horizon potential of applying language-building processes as embodied philosophy within the greater scheme of fields of practice. The belief is that such processes may successfully be applied to a whole range of other fields’ core training for the purpose of developing critical thinking through embodied experience in order to develop creative, innovative people. Furthermore, this process instils sustainable, manageable, maintenance through sustainability thru dev body-place relation.
This process seeks to engage both the individual and the group as an open investigation of the environments internal and external to the body. Essentially, an aim is to describe body-place relation through shared experience, regardless of discipline or culture.
Observation and feedback processes are embedded within the laboratory both internally and with others. This includes peer view & response sessions where people from outside the process are invited to observe. In this instance feedback centres on the nature of the project rather than content or individual process.
A 2-day Media Jam at the Studios brings the movement researchers into play within an audio-visual environment, bringing together artists of sound and percussion, installation and video. The aim of the Media Jam is to push the boundaries of the prior movement improvisation work into a production setting.
More info:
http://marnieorr.blogspot.com
http://orrandsweeney.blogspot.com
Bodyweather:
http://www.bodyweather.net
Bridgetown Film Fest
http://www.btownfilms.com
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The training period brings together performers with other individuals from either artistic (eg. visual arts) or science-based fields of practice (eg. anthropology, permaculture, naturopathy). It is envisaged that working physically with professionals from a wide range of disciplines will inform the dialogue to encompass vocabulary applicable to a much broader scope than performance and performativity.
The residency forms the final project of a research MA Professional Practice (Middlesex University, London). Marnie will employ research processes based on principles of openness, sustainability, creativity and innovation. These processes have been developed over the past three years whilst working in collaboration with Rachel Sweeney as ROCKface performance research duo, largely based in Dartmoor National Park, Devon UK. The residency will also be directly informed by the cross-cultural work of InVivo Movement Research Collective (London), a group of four artists working across four languages investigating site-based movement to develop common understandings and definitions in the English language about the relation between body and environment.
Bodyweather process is embraced through the structure of the Laboratory. The training and philosophical basis for Bodyweather was developed on a farm in Japan by Min Tanaka and his Mai Juku Dance Company beginning in the 1980’s. Bodyweather identifies the body as a tool for movement, existing in a constant state of change. Like the weather, the body holds its own climates and atmospheres. Embracing both eastern and western philosophical views, the broad-based movement training has historically been applied to performance making. One of the aims of the Laboratory is to broaden the horizon potential of applying language-building processes as embodied philosophy within the greater scheme of fields of practice. The belief is that such processes may successfully be applied to a whole range of other fields’ core training for the purpose of developing critical thinking through embodied experience in order to develop creative, innovative people. Furthermore, this process instils sustainable, manageable, maintenance through sustainability thru dev body-place relation.
This process seeks to engage both the individual and the group as an open investigation of the environments internal and external to the body. Essentially, an aim is to describe body-place relation through shared experience, regardless of discipline or culture.
Observation and feedback processes are embedded within the laboratory both internally and with others. This includes peer view & response sessions where people from outside the process are invited to observe. In this instance feedback centres on the nature of the project rather than content or individual process.
A 2-day Media Jam at the Studios brings the movement researchers into play within an audio-visual environment, bringing together artists of sound and percussion, installation and video. The aim of the Media Jam is to push the boundaries of the prior movement improvisation work into a production setting.
More info:
http://marnieorr.blogspot.com
http://orrandsweeney.blogspot.com
Bodyweather:
http://www.bodyweather.net
Bridgetown Film Fest
http://www.btownfilms.com
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