Revisions, stills from new video installation in progress

featuring Kelly Keenan, 2011

We are nearing the end of an intensive week of choreographing, rehearsing and shooting my new project, Revisions. The work will eventually be a multi-channel video installation featuring the dancer, Kelly Keenan, as well as a commissioned score written by Mirko Sablich and performed by Kathy Kennedy.

Revisions is a thematic progression of my previous research regarding the motif of the working body, gestured labour as choreography, and the body as tool. With Dmitri Shostakovich’s ballet The Bolt [1931] as a point of departure, the work aims to musically, choreographically and visually conceive of the body navigating between states of control and abandon.