Thursday, November 28, 2013

SPACEMAN with Paul Rous SESC Araquara Brasil. Starting point for developing movement in white dresses designed by Heather MacCrimmon


Dudendance started collaborating with Heather MacCrimmon with Spaceman in 2010. Movement in the dresses unfolds like a paper origami figure. The slow meditative pace allows for slow transformations. Paul is able to "fill" the dress with robotic, mechanical movement and then collapse down until the figure disappears within the folds of the paper. Heather will develop large-scale costumes for Borderlands which will allow us to explore the sculptural possibility of the paper fabric. 



All physical features are hidden.


The figure can collapse down.
The paper folds and the figure disappears.


For Spaceman the dress acts as a space suit.





Dudendance workshop with Dance Department of Campinas University April 2012

In spring 2013 Dudendance collaborated with Dora de Andrade and the dance facility of UNICAMP Dance dept. to run a series of workshops that explored the movement quality of working in the dresses. The project, along with subsequent workshops and performances in Sao Carlos and SESC Araraquara were supported through the British Council / Creative Scotland Transform-UK Brasil. The collaboration will continue in the Borders when a small group from Brasil will join the project in June.

Five day workshop in UNICAMP dance dept. for students, teachers and PHD researchers.

Paul and the students.




UNICAMP Campinas Brasil - workshop showings at Casa do Lago and SESC Araquara.

Workshop students performing at the Casa do Lago Cultural Centre.

Paul Rous performs with students.

Site-specific intervention at SESC Araquara Brasil.

Dora de Andrade at SESC.