STASILAND
Stasiland is a dance-theatre piece set in the shredded document ruins of East Germany. Delving into a world of total surveillance where anxiety is the regime we explore the stories of East Germans living under the eye of the Stasi and their informants. We watch as through the reconstruction of documents left in the wake of the police state the characters discover the secrets of their own lives revealing their poignant stories of connection and loss.
Inspired by the book Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder & designed in the round for audiences in Galleries, Libraries & Theatres.
This is the first work made under the name of my company Premier Dance Theatre.
CURRENT WORK
Stasiland (SOLO, 2023)
Drenched with tension and suspicion this physical investigation (based upon Anna Funder’s book Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall) begins with the covert signals of Stasi Agents operating on the streets of East Germany and develops to explore a world of total surveillance, where anxiety is the regime.
This work was premiered at Unfiltered, The Point Eastleigh’s Scratch Night in Janurary 2023. And was the starting point for a later that led to Stasiland in it’s current expanded form.
Music: C*cks*cker by Tyler Bates, Memory Arc by Rival Consoles & Phantom Grip by Rival Consoles
ARCHIVED WORK
cOMPASS (2023)
Exploring precision and detour, the solo Compass carves through space using diagonal and curved spatial patterns. The movement investigates along the same theme, working with precision alongside softness and sinew.
Music: Colorado by Aukai
ARCHIVED WORK
The process of developing KNOWING THIS, was complex. It asked me to develop my artistry and negotiate my roles of dancer and choreographer within the same piece. While the initial idea was impersonal, KNOWING THIS became a personal solo, that required discomfort to achieve. The only clear link to the impersonal beginnings is the sound score, a recording of myself speaking a passage of Shakespeare’s King John, Act 3, Scene 4. I overlaid the spliced up and repeated sections of the passage with the track Fractured from Marconi Union.
Music: Fractured by Marconi Union
KNOWING THIS (2020)
ARCHIVED WORK
