Tuesday 24 August – Friday 27 August
Dance Base | 18.00 (45 mins) | £5
Out of Hand/Me & The Machine
Interactive performance/experience
In this double bill of performances that breaks down the boundaries of performer, choreographer, and film, Out of Hand will present Point of You and Me & The Machine will present The Impossibility of Being An Apple.
Point of You is a humorous and surprising journey between the real and virtual worlds of live dance and film. Two dancers move between reality and non reality with the film sometimes playing the observer or the instigator, whilst at other times being the participant or merely acting as a background. Featuring virtual tables, aggressive oversized limbs and a rather photogenic ball, Point of You uses dance and film to play with the audiences’ point of view.
“Point of You provided a crisp and witty counterpoint, executed with technical precision, captivating camera work and subtle humour. “ Kat Richter, Resolution Review
The Impossibility of Being an Apple is a film not-just-to-be-watched, a live game between screen and audience where performers become viewers, viewers, performers and nobody becomes an apple. Combining animation, choreography and performance for camera with the instructions for the audience, the film transforms its screening into a playful live event and the cinema space into a performative site, activating the live context of watching.
“The Impossibility of Being an Apple was charming and unpretentious stuff; our participation as an audience, unthreatening. I came away feeling beguiled and light in my heart” Sarah Bryant, “National Review of Live Art 2009: A Personal Introduction to Performance Art