My first encounter with site-specific work, which should hopefully support my studies in the third term.
Bodies in Urban Spaces by Willi Dorner
Austrian artist Willi Dorner squeezes human bodies into nooks and crannies for his Bodies in Urban Spaces project. Groups of dancers, climbers and performers wearing brightly coloured clothes run through busy malls and high streets and cram themselves into doorways, alcoves and any gap they can find in public buildings. During a tour of Austria, England, France, Norway, Sweden, Finland and the US, Willi and his cohorts have drawn attention from local police who have stopped several performances for fear they were burglars or vandals.
My first thoughts and ideas- As a new dance artist to the contemporary dance world, this really caught my attention and really made me want to go out and try this. I am particularly interested in the way the dancers bodies, fit together like jigsaw puzzles. How long does it take the bodies to look like a normal part of the landscape, like they were always meant to be there?
Shona's-
Memories of a loved one, who has been changed by illness, accident etc.
Shona's idea spoke to me, simply because of personal experience through both my gran with her stroke and grandpa with his head injury. For me, I felt like it would be recreating the journey that me and my family had been on. But also a celebration of what the person was and who they are now.
